[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chime \chime\, v. i. imp.  p. p. chimed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   chiming. see chime, n.
   1. to sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
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   2. to be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
      correspond; to fall in with.
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            everything chimed in with such a humor. --w. irving.
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   3. to join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
      by in or in with. colloq.
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   4. to make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
      rhyming. --cowley
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see also:
chimed chiming chime 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chime \chime\, v. i.
   1. to cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a
      set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
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            and chime their sounding hammers.     --dryden.
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   2. to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
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            chime his childish verse.             --byron.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chimb \chimb\ chimacm, n. as. cim, in cimst=an base of a
   pillar; akin to d. kim, f. sw. kim., g. kimme f.
   the edge of a cask, etc; a chine. see chine, n., 3.
   written also chime.
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see also:
chine chime 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chime \chime\ chimacm, n. see chimb.
   see chine, n., 3.
   1913 webster
see also:
chimb chine 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chime \chime\ chimacm, n. oe. chimbe, prop., cymbal, of.
   cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, f. cymbale, l.
   cymbalum, fr. gr. ky`mbalon. see cymbal.
   1. the harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
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            instruments that made melodius chime. --milton.
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   2. a set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in
      the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by
      hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking
      of the hours or their divisions.
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            we have heard the chimes at midnight. --shak.
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   3. pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
      "chimes of verse." --cowley.
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see also:
cymbal 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

chime
     n : a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes
         of different lengths that are struck with a hammer syn:
         bell, gong
     v : emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"
see also:
bell gong 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

257 moby thesaurus words for "chime":
   accord, accordance, agree, agreement, alliterate, alliteration,
   announce, answer to, articulate, assent, assonance, assonate,
   assort with, atone, attune, attunement, battery, be consistent,
   be harmonious, be in tune, be of one, be uniform with, bell, bells,
   blend, bones, bong, break in, breathe, butt in, carillon,
   castanets, celesta, change ringing, check, chime in,
   chime of bells, chimes, chiming, chink, chip in, chord, chorus,
   church bell, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clapper,
   clappers, clink, cohere, coincide, come out with, communicate,
   concentus, concert, concord, concordance, concur, conform,
   conform with, consist with, consonance, consonancy, consort,
   convey, cooperate, correspond, cowbell, crash cymbal, cymbals,
   deliver, denote, diapason, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging,
   dingle, dinner bell, dinner gong, disclose, dong, donging,
   doorbell, dovetail, drone, electronic carillon, emit, enunciate,
   euphony, express, fall in together, finger cymbals, fire bell,
   fit together, fling off, formulate, gamelan, give, give expression,
   give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice,
   glockenspiel, go together, go with, gong, gong bell, hand bell,
   handbells, hang together, harmonics, harmonize, harmony, harping,
   heavy harmony, hit, hold together, homophony, humdrum, idiophone,
   impart, indicate, intercede, interfere, interlock, interrupt,
   intersect, intrude, jangle, jibe, jingle, jingle bell,
   jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, join in, knell, knelling,
   let out, lip, lock, lyra, maraca, marimba, mark, match, melodize,
   metallophone, monochord, monody, monotone, monotony, musicalize,
   near rhyme, orchestral bells, out with, overlap, parallel,
   passing bell, peal, peal ringing, pealing, percussion,
   percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, phonate, phrase,
   pitter-patter, pour forth, present, pronounce, pun, put forth,
   put in words, raise, rattle, rattlebones, register, register with,
   repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, respond to,
   rhyme, ring, ring changes, ringing, sacring bell, say, set forth,
   sheepbell, sing in chorus, singsong, sizzler, slant rhyme,
   sleigh bell, snappers, sort with, sound, sound a knell,
   sound in tune, sound together, square, square with,
   stale repetition, stand together, strike, striking, symphonize,
   symphony, synchronism, synchronization, synchronize, tally,
   tam-tam, tedium, telephone bell, tell, three-part harmony,
   throw off, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle,
   tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabula, tintinnabulate, tintinnabulum,
   toll, tolling, tongue, tonitruone, triangle, trot, tubular bells,
   tune, unison, unisonance, unnecessary repetition, utter, verbalize,
   vibes, vibraphone, vocalize, voice, whisper, word, xylophone

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