Noun: chime
| Singular | chime |
| Plural | chimes |
Sample Sentences
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Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
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Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra.
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Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.
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The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.
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The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
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Chimes sing Sunday morn.
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Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
Nouns inflected like chime
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English chymbe, chyme, probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble, cimble, from Latin cymbalum; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle. See: Middle English Nouns '
chymbe', Latin Nouns '
cymbalum', Old English Nouns '
ċimbala'.