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1.nounA 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."Hugo was a chime player in the school orchestra."
2.nounAn individual ringing component of such a set."Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath."
3.nounA small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device."The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered."
4.nounThe sound of such an instrument or device."The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing."
5.nounA small hammer or other device used to strike a bell."Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it."
6.verbTo make the sound of a chime."I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon."
7.verbTo cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
8.verbTo utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
9.verbTo agree; to correspond."The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research."
10.verbTo make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
11.nounThe top of a ridge.
12.nounThe spine of an animal.
13.nounA piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
14.nounA sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
15.nounA hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
16.nounThe edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
17.nounThe back of the blade on a scythe.