different between jangle vs chime

English

Etymology

From Middle English janglen (“to talk excessively, chatter, talk idly”), from Old French jangler (“to chatter, gossip, bawl, argue noisily”), perhaps from Frankish *jangelon (“to jeer”) (compare Middle Dutch jangelen (“to whine”)) and ultimately imitative.

The music sense is said to derive from a line in the song Mr. Tambourine Man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Verb

jangle (third-person singular simple present jangles, present participle jangling, simple past and past participle jangled)

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling metallic sound.
2. (transitive) To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
3. (transitive) To irritate.

4. To quarrel in words; to wrangle.

Translations

Noun

jangle (plural jangles)

1. A rattling metallic sound.
2. (music, attributive) A sound typically characterized by undistorted, treble-heavy electric guitars, characteristic of 1960s pop.

   Synonym: jingle-jangle

3. (obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Translations

Usage notes

• Somewhat harsher than jingle.

Derived terms

• ajangle
• jangle pop
• jangly

Related terms

• jingle

References

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 ??