different between concur vs chime

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

concur (third-person singular simple present concurs, present participle concurring, simple past and past participle concurred)

1. To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.

2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.

3. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
4. (rare) To converge.

Synonyms

• (to unite or agree): accord, agree, coexist; See also Thesaurus:agree
• (to meet in the same point): cooperate, unite
• (to run together): assemble, congregate, crowd, flock
• (to converge):

Antonyms

• (to unite or agree): disagree, dissent
• (to meet in the same point):
• (to run together): disperse, disassemble
• (to converge): diverge

Related terms

• concourse
• concurrence

Translations

References

• concur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• concur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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 ??