CHIME


Meaning of CHIME in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bell chimes (= it rings a certain number of times, in order to tell you the time of day )

The bells began to chime, calling people to church.

wind chimes

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A clock chimed six.

Across the valley, church bells were chiming.

Church bells throughout France chimed to mark the occasion.

I heard a clock chime softly in the next door room.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Inside the business school chimed the melody that meant the change of lessons.

Others chimed in, saying those who have it made are pulling up the ladder on those less fortunate.

St Clement's clock chimed half-past nine as he reached the beginning of Champney Road.

The great bells of the Immaculate Conception chimed the hour.

They join our line of thought, and soon are chiming in with what they think the author may have meant.

This last letter did not chime with the rest.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, chime the economists.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

wind

Bones are also put to practical use, strung together to make a kind of aeolian harp or wind chime .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the chime of the doorbell

The shop door opened with a chime .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger.

Past the pub, and the noise of laughter and the music of a jukebox and the bell chime of gaming machines.

Still Ralph heard every word of every speech as though it were the crystalline note of an ice chime .

The chimes reverberated through the silent building.

The thoughts of solitude are heard in solitude, and have an inward chime that public thoughts must lack.

There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.

To be part of that melody of infinite chimes of light!

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