different between chime vs tinkle

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)

1. (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.

2. An individual ringing component of such a set.

3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

4. The sound of such an instrument or device.

5. 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)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
   • 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

     Chime his childish verse.

4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

   • Everything chimed in with such a humor.

5. 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

Translations

Derived terms

• chime in, chime up

Etymology 2

Noun

chime (plural chimes)

1. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)

Anagrams

• Chiem, chemi-, hemic, miche

Irish

Noun

chime m

1. Lenited form of cime.

Japanese

Romanization

chime

1. R?maji transcription of ??

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)

1. (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
   • 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture

     The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.

2. (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
3. (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

   • And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.

5. (intransitive, informal) To urinate.

Synonyms

• (urinate): See Thesaurus:urinate

Derived terms

• atinkle
• tinkle-down
• tinkle the ivories

Translations

Noun

tinkle (plural tinkles)

1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
2. (Britain, informal) A telephone call.

   Synonyms: call, ring

3. (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.

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