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鳴,鐘,和諧鳴,打,和諧敲出和諧的聲音,打鐘報時,重復說

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chime \Chime\, v. i.
   1. 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.     --Dryden.

   2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

            Chime his childish verse.             --Byron.

Chime \Chime\, n. [See {Chimb}.]
   See {Chine}, n., 3.

Chime \Chime\, n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble,
   in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr.
   Gr. ?. See {Cymbal}.]
   1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

            Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton.

   2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in
      the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by
      hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking
      of the hours or their divisions.

            We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak.

   3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
      ``Chimes of verse.'' --Cowley.

Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.]
   1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

   2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
      correspond; to fall in with.

            Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving.

   3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
      by in or in with. [Colloq.]

   4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
      rhyming. --Cowley

資料來源 : WordNet®

chime
     n : a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes
         of different lengths that are struck with a hammer [syn:
         {bell}, {gong}]

chime
     v : emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"