noun ·see chine, ·noun, 3.
2. chime ·noun to sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
3. chime ·vi to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
4. chime ·noun the harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
5. chime ·noun pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
6. chime ·noun to make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
7. chime ·noun to join in a conversation; to express assent;
followed by in or in with.
8. chime ·vi to cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
9. chime ·noun to be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
10. chime ·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.