chime

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.”

2. isim An 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. isim A 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. isim The sound of such an instrument or device.

   “The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.”

5. isim A 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. fiil To make the sound of a chime.

   “The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.”

7. fiil To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

   “And chime their sounding hammers.”

8. fiil To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

   “Chime his childish verse.”

9. fiil To agree; to correspond.

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

10. fiil To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

    “It shall not keep one settled pace of time, In the same tune it shall not always chime”

11. isim Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).

    “Let the chimes meet so that the chime of one cask shall not work into the head of the next.”