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chime
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?a?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ?imbala, ?imbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- chimist
- clock chime
Translations
Verb
chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- And chime their sounding hammers.
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- Chime his childish verse.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- Everything chimed in with such a humor.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty
- It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
In the same tune it shall not always chime
- It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty
Translations
Derived terms
- chime in, chime up
Etymology 2
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
Anagrams
- Chiem, chemi-, hemic, miche
Irish
Noun
chime m
- Lenited form of cime.
Japanese
Romanization
chime
- R?maji transcription of ??
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chimer
English
Etymology 1
chime +? -er
Noun
chimer (plural chimers)
- A bell that chimes.
- A person who rings chimes on bells.
Quotations
- 2001 J. Robert Wright - Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue
- The venerable Dr. George W. Warren, who had recently retired, was “honorary organist,” and Alfred Toulmin continued as harpist and bell chimer, a post he had held for 30 years.
- 2004 Emma Wolf - Other Things Being Equal
- She brushed a few drops from her lashes as the sweet little chimer rang out ten bells;
Etymology 2
Noun
chimer (plural chimers)
- Alternative form of chimere (“bishop's robe”)
Anagrams
- Emrich, Mechir, Remich, micher
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