Chime : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Chime	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Chime
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chime n a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument Synonym(s): chime, bell, gong v emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chime \Chime\, v. i. 1. 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. --Dryden. 2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chime \Chime\, n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Cymbal}.] 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton. 2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak. 3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. [bd]Chimes of verse.[b8] --Cowley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chime \Chime\, n. [See {Chimb}.] See {Chine}, n., 3.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells. 2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving. 3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.] 4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. --Cowley