Definition/Meaning of chime

• English - Noun: chime (plural chimes) A music al 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. Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra. Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming. An individual ring ing component of…
• English - Verb: chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed) (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime. The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking. I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in…
• English - Anagrams: hemic
• English - Etymology: From Middle English chymbe , chyme , probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble , cimble , from Latin cymbalum ; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala , ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle .
• English - Pronunciation: (UK) IPA: /tʃaɪm/ Rhymes: -aɪm Rhymes: -aɪ