Definition of "chime"

chime¹

/tʃaɪm/

noun
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.
verb
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.
  Quotations
  And chime their sounding hammers.
  1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  Quotations
  Chime his childish verse.
  1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
  Quotations
  Everything chimed in with such a humor.
  1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […]
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
  Quotations
  It shall not keep one settled pace of time, In the same tune it shall not always chime
  a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty

chime²

/tʃaɪm/

noun
plural chimes
1. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)

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