Associations to the word «Chime»

CHIME, noun. (musical instruments) 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.

CHIME, noun. An individual ringing component of such a set.

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

CHIME, noun. The sound of such an instrument or device.

CHIME, noun. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

CHIME, verb. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.

CHIME, verb. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

CHIME, verb. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

CHIME, verb. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

CHIME, verb. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

CHIME, noun. A chine; the edge of a cask.

CHIME IN, verb. (idiomatic) To talk; to join in conversation or discussion.

CHIME IN, verb. (idiomatic) To agree, to harmonize, to concord.

CHIME, noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument.

CHIME, verb. Emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed".