Толковый словарь английского языка - chime
Chime
chime
I. noun Etymology: Middle English chimbe, from Old English cimb-; akin to Middle Dutch kimme edge of a cask Date: 14th century the edge or rim of a cask or drum, II. verb (~d; chiming) Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to make a musical and especially a harmonious sound, to make the sounds of a ~, to be or act in accord , transitive verb to cause to sound musically by striking, to produce by chiming, to call or indicate by chiming , to utter repetitively ; din 2, ~r noun III. noun Etymology: Middle English, cymbal, probably from Anglo-French *chimbe, cime, from Latin cymbalum cymbal Date: 15th century an apparatus for chiming a bell or set of bells, 2. a musically tuned set of bells, one of a set of objects giving a bell-like sound when struck, 3. the sound of a set of bells, a musical sound suggesting that of bells, accord , harmony
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a a set of attuned bells. b the series of sounds given by this. c (usu. in pl.) a set of attuned bells as a door bell. 2 agreement, correspondence, harmony. --v. 1 a intr. (of bells) ring. b tr. sound (a bell or chime) by striking. 2 tr. show (the hour) by chiming. 3 intr. (usu. foll. by together, with) be in agreement, harmonize. Phrases and idioms chime in 1 interject a remark. 2 join in harmoniously. 3 (foll. by with) agree with. Derivatives chimer n. Etymology: ME, prob. f. chym(b)e bell f. OE cimbal f. L cymbalum f. Gk kumbalon CYMBAL 2. n. (also chimb) the projecting rim at the end of a cask. Etymology: ME: cf. MDu., MLG kimme ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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