Synonyms of the word chime


CHIMEBELL - GO - GONG - SOUND

chime

  • n. (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar)…
  • n. An individual ringing component of such a set.
  • n. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
  • n. The sound of such an instrument or device.
  • n. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
  • v. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in…
  • v. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  • v. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
  • v. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
  • n. A chine; the edge of a cask.

bell

  • n. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of…
  • n. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
  • n. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
  • n. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  • n. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  • n. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time…
  • n. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  • n. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older…
  • n. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
  • n. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also…
  • n. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
  • v. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
  • v. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
  • v. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
  • v. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
  • n. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

gong

  • n. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with…
  • n. (Britain, informal) A medal or award.
  • v. (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  • v. (transitive) To halt or disqualify (a contestant in a talent show) by ringing a gong.
  • n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  • n. (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

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