different between clime vs chime

English

Etymology

From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from ????? (klín?, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kla?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m
• Homophone: climb

Noun

clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)

1. A particular region defined by its weather or climate.

   After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.

   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:

     My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
     Where rougher climes a nobler race di?play,

2. Climate.

   A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.

Anagrams

• melic

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 ??