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chimes, plural;
  1. (of a bell or clock) Make melodious ringing sounds, typically to indicate the time

  2. (of a clock) Make such sounds in order to indicate (the time)
    • - the clock chimed eight
  3. Be in agreement; harmonize
    • - his poem chimes with our modern experience of loss
Noun
  1. The projecting rim at the end of a cask

  1. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
  2. emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"
  3. A carillon-like instrument with fewer than 23 bells is called a chime.
  4. The Macintosh startup behaviors characteristic to Macintosh computers include the Chimes of Death (also known as Hawaiian Death Chimes), Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and startup chime.
  5. "Chime" was the first single from the UK dance group Orbital, allegedly recorded for less than £1. It was recorded on a cassette deck and was originally released in late 1989 and had moderate success. In 1990 it was released by FFRR Records, and reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart.
  6. Chime is a music/puzzle video game developed by Zoë Mode for Xbox Live Arcade. The game is the first title released by the non-profit video game publisher OneBigGame. Chime was released on 3 February 2010. ...
  7. (The Chimes) The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. ...
  8. (The Chimes (US band)) The Chimes (later Lenny & the Chimes) were an American doo wop group from Brooklyn.
  9. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. ...
  10. (CHIMES) The ends of the staves of a cask, where they come out beyond the head of the cask.
  11. (Chimes) A group of cylindrical rods that are hung close together. When played, chimes make a hi pitched sound that is very easy to listen to. The sound is made from the chimes hitting each other when brushed. ...
  12. (Chimes) A set of bells tuned to scale and hit with a hammer. Sometimes the bells are the same size but of differing thickness.
  13. (Chimes) A set of cylendar bells or metal slabs hung together to create a high pitch musical tone. Usually hung in a row, they make a sound when they hit each other. A great mood instrument that adds ambiance and personality to any song.
  14. (Chimes) Chromatic set of tubular bells suspended by shoe laces from a frame held together with duct tape to form a keyboard instrument used in the pit.
  15. (Chimes) The fold that connects the top half of a metal lamp bowl to the lower half.
  16. (Chimes) To dream of Christmas chimes, denotes fair prospects for business men and farmers. For the young, happy anticipations fulfilled. Ordinary chimes, denotes some small anxiety will soon be displaced by news of distant friends.
  17. (Chimes) Westminster, St Michael and Whittington are the most common.  On most clocks the chimes can be silenced at night.
  18. (Chimes) [noun] - a set of tuned bars or tubes which are struck by hammers operated by air or electric motors controlled by the keyboards and stop controls. The effect is that of a stop of bells.
  19. (The chimes) are tubular bells that are tuned to the pitches of a major scale. They are struck with a leather covered hammer.
  20. (chimes) Tuned brass tubes, struck by mallets, with a tone quality imitative of church bells. * Synonym: tubular chimes. (In some Wurlitzer factory scale sticks, the term chimes was used to designate orchestra bells, or flat steel bars.)
  21. (Chiming) Ringing a bell while it is down, with just a small movement causing the clapper to strike the bell on one side only.
  22. (n.) Chained vector time, approximately equal to the vector length in a DO-loop. The number of chimes required for a loop dominates the time required for execution. A new chime begins each time a resource such as a functional unit, vector register or memory path, must be reused.
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  24. Early English term was chymme bells, from chymbals, an Anglicization of the Latin cymbala. A set of bells usually numbering up to 16 (but not more than 22) and hung stationary. ...
  25. (n.): hour. Ex., “I got in at six chimes.”