chimeth

Verb

chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
   • The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
2. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
   • And chime their sounding hammers.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
   • Chime his childish verse.1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
   • The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
   • It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
     In the same tune it shall not always chimea. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty

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