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chimes

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chimes

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Definitions ofchimes

1noun
  • 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.

    Example: "Hugo was a chime player in the school orchestra."

  • An individual ringing component of such a set.

    Example: "Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath."

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

    Example: "The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered."

  • The sound of such an instrument or device.

    Example: "The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing."

  • A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

    Example: "Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it."

1verb
  • To make the sound of a chime.

    Example: "I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon."

  • To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  • To agree; to correspond.

    Example: "The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research."

  • To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
1noun
  • The top of a ridge.
  • The spine of an animal.
  • A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  • A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  • A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  • The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  • The back of the blade on a scythe.

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