chime

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

läuten

💍

Geläut

Ton

Glocke

🔔

Glockenspiel

klirren

Melodie

schallen

🔉

schlagen

tönen

übereinstimmen

ertönen

🔉

Läuten

Türglocke

ertönen lassen

Läuten -s

-

Geläut - s

geklungen

hallen

klimpern

klingen

💍

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

carillon

carillonner

💍

luiden

🔉

suonare

klokkenspel

campana

🔔

tintinear

klok

tinter

acciottolio

sonner

🔉

cloche

🔔

klokgelui

retinir

carillón

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/tʃaɪm/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: chime

Geerbt von Altenglisch: 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.