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.
Definitions
- noun. See Chine, n., 3.
- noun. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
- noun. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
- noun. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
- noun. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
- noun. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- intransitive verb. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- intransitive verb. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- noun. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- verb. emit a sound
"bells and gongs chimed"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chime:
Common word forms
chimed, chimer, chimes, chiming
Words from these letters
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