Dictionary Entry
chime
chime is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Chine, n., 3. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See Chine., 3.
- 2noun
The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
- 5noun
To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
- 6noun
To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
- 7noun
To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
- 8noun
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- 9intransitive verb
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- 10intransitive verb
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- 11noun
a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- 12verb
emit a sound
"bells and gongs chimed"
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