chime
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Is chime a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (music) 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.Examples: "Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming."; "Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.Examples: "The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking."; "I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon."; "An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.Examples: "And chime their sounding hammers."transitive
3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.Examples: "Chime his childish verse."transitive
4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.Examples: "The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research."; "Everything chimed in with such a humor."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary