chime

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. 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.
2. An individual ringing component of such a set.
3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
4. The sound of such an instrument or device.
5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
2. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Conceptes

carilló

dringar

sonar

🔉

trincar

repic

Sinònims

ring

💍

peal

bell

🔔

jingle

sound

🔉

clank

toll

jangle

clink

strike

ringing

gong

clang

chimb

hurt

knell

knock

play

punish

rattle

resound

slosh

smite

snort

strike down

swat

thrash

tinkle

vibrate

peal of bells

accord

bell set

bang

beat

blow

buzz

chine

clap

👏

clash

clatter

clip

clobber

ding

harmony

hit

Traduccions

carillon

läuten

💍

carillonner

💍

suonare

luiden

🔉

klok

Glockenspiel

klokgelui

Glocke

🔔

sonner

🔉

Geläut

cloche

🔔

acciottolio

Ton

tinter

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tʃaɪm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: chime

Heretat de anglès antic: ċimbala

In summary

From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.