Usually means: Sound produced by striking bells.
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  1. chime: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chime, chime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chime, chime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chime, chime: Wordnik
  7. chime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chime: Wiktionary
  9. chime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CHIME: Dictionary.com
  13. chime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chime (Dessa album), Chime (Macintosh), Chime (bank), Chime (bell instrument), Chime (company), Chime (disambiguation), Chime (song), Chime (video game), Chime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chime: Rhymezone
  19. chime: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chime: Free Dictionary
  22. chime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chime: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. chime: Medical dictionary

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  1. CHIME: Acronym Finder
  2. chime: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chime: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chimed as well.)

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noun:  (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.
noun:  An individual ringing component of such a set.
noun:  A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
noun:  The sound of such an instrument or device.
noun:  A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
verb:  (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
verb:  (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
verb:  (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
verb:  To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
noun:  Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”) [The top of a ridge.]

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