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What does chime mean?

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