chime
verb /tʃaɪm/
/tʃaɪm/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they chime | /tʃaɪm/ /tʃaɪm/ |
| he / she / it chimes | /tʃaɪmz/ /tʃaɪmz/ |
| past simple chimed | /tʃaɪmd/ /tʃaɪmd/ |
| past participle chimed | /tʃaɪmd/ /tʃaɪmd/ |
| -ing form chiming | /ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ/ /ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ/ |
- (of a bell or a clock) to ring; to show the time by making a ringing sound
- I heard the clock chime.
- Eight o'clock had already chimed.
- chime something The clock chimed midday.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryChime is used with these nouns as the subject:- bell
- clock
- doorbell
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (in the senses ‘cymbal’ and ‘ring out’): probably from Old English cimbal (from Latin cymbalum, from Greek kumbalon, from kumbē ‘cup’), later interpreted as chime bell.