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noun tʃʌɪmtʃaɪm 1A bell or a metal bar or tube, tuned and used in a set to produce a melodious series of ringing sounds when struck. （尤指组成一套敲击乐器的）钟，铃；金属棒；金属管 the warm breeze whispered through the chimes hanging from the balcony ceiling Example sentencesExamples - Take off the cover to the chimes or bells and inspect the points that strike the chime or bell for dirt.
- The chimes and squiggling synths on ‘Run’ are forlorn reminders of this sound.
- A celeste is an antique piano that plays chimes, like a bigger, richer bell sound.
- Even when the mood becomes threatening, as on the gloomy The Moon Versus The Sea or Mytikas, Haugh balances it with airy bells and chimes.
- Some looked like variants of things I recognized; there were string instruments like lutes or small guitars, there were drums, chimes, tambourines.
- Recorders whistle through delay pedals, tracing out skeletal melodies in a haze of chimes and throbbing bass as cymbals roll and drums rumble through ever-shifting pulse patterns.
- Strings, chimes, horns, pianos and bells appear in nearly every song, no matter how fast the tempo or searing the guitars, and, most importantly, they never feel forced.
- And the background music totally had the bells and chimes and violins and cellos and soft brass going.
- Towards the end of the show, Lieberman hands out percussion instruments - triangles, chimes, shakers - and has no trouble finding volunteers to take the instruments.
- Here, Stewart's vocals hang in hazy suspensions of wafting guitars, piercing chimes, subliminal drones, and ornately wrought percussion.
- The rich bass, sustaining guitar, and chimes offer a pleasing blend of sound, but goes on much too long for the amount of compositional advancement.
- The use of chimes and tubular bells is another reason.
- Opening the door of the carriage, William stepped out and pulled the cord of the bell chime, listening as the sound echoed through the house.
- Swooning, proggy mellotron sounds, crunchy electronic percussion, fat blobs of analogue synth, gamelan chimes and digital noise compete for centre stage in quickfire exchanges.
- The sound of bells and chimes colored the breeze.
- The prepositions, in their bag, made a sound of agreement like metal chimes.
- 1.1 A melodious ringing sound produced by striking a set of chimes.
大本钟的敲击声。 Example sentencesExamples - Framed by a mixed bag of submerged synth sounds and clanging chimes, the moody ‘Lover's Rock’ lumbers out of the gate before settling into a nice trot.
- The constant recycling of chimes seasoned with crowd noises, tube announcements and nature sounds acts as a sonic tour of the city.
- Reality of the situation came back down when I heard the chimes go through the house and I froze, horrified.
- For six minutes, the song flows leisurely across faintly ringing organ tones and chimes, with just a few scattered notes recalling some of Fahey's concrete leanings.
- Out of a buzzy analog haze, a stomping bassline gathers up all the lost children and, in a glorious series of chimes and welcoming blips, sends them out into a magical world of candy cane funk.
- It sounded like melodious chimes ringing into my ears.
- A few seconds after she spoke, the crew of the Varian could hear the same mysterious chimes floating through the air, but this time, they did have a melody.
- Through the thin trunks of birch and larger oaks, she could hear the flat chimes of running water, and knew she was close.
- With the chime of the glockenspiel and the slow pull of the violin the band began and invited us to witness a cavalcade of sound and images.
- The chime of metal on metal sounded, and Lanfilar opened his eyes to see a very encouraging sight.
- In the silence between chimes, she had heard soft, well concealed steps as her watcher ran up the castle stairs.
- A chime of bells, normally in a tower, played either from a keyboard or mechanically by a barrel (like that of a barrel organ, but larger) or similar device.
- Chris waited outside of Mrs. Schmidt's Contemporary Issues class as the last chime of the bell rang through the hall.
- Ty glanced around when he heard the chimes echo throughout the castle.
- The distant chime of bells sounded in the parlor.
- Just as quickly, the band shoves terra firma back under your feet; drums die, pianos fade, and chimes reverb in the brickblack.
- Even out here, he had heard the chimes and was transported.
- The cold morning breeze and a festive ambience, the chime of bells and melodious carols signal the arrival of Christmas.
- It starts with what sounds like the distant chimes of gamelan music reverberating around a cavern and then morphs into a different winding style every eight minutes or so.
- The next song, ‘All the Arms Around You’, wraps Diers's deadpan vocals with the ideal accoutrement: ringing chimes!
Synonyms peal, pealing, ringing, carillon, toll, tolling, sound ding-dong, clanging Angelus archaic knell rare tintinnabulation - 1.2chimes A set of tuned bells used as a doorbell.
编铃（作门铃用） Example sentencesExamples - It wasn't until we had reached the top platform in front of the door that we heard the bells and chimes tune telling everyone we had arrived.
- People choose chimes for two button doorbell circuits because they want different sounds for the front and back doors.
- Much like musical doorbell chimes: you can only listen to a badly midi-ized version of the William Tell overture once before you rip out the batteries and revert to knocking.
- Whether you choose chimes or bells, wiring the sound unit to the outside button is the same.
- 1.3Bell-ringing A stroke of the clapper against one or both sides of a scarcely moving bell.
〔鸣钟术〕打铃，敲钟 Example sentencesExamples - With aching finality, the moon unseen reached its perihelion in the sky and the hour sounded the twelve chimes of middle night.
- The twelfth chime struck and Krizzia awoke panting.
- Doomsday was not on the agenda when the chimes struck midnight and 2000 was born.
- Time passes again, the same clock hands spin madly, the same bells ring and the same chimes chime.
- The chime struck twice, to ring in the second millennium.
verb tʃʌɪmtʃaɪm [no object]1(of a bell or clock) make melodious ringing sounds, typically to indicate the time. （钟，铃，时钟）发出和谐响声（尤指报时） with complement the clock chimed eight 钟敲响了八点。 Example sentencesExamples - The abbey's tenor bell chimed for the 101st time - once a minute for every year of the Queen Mother's life - as the service began.
- Most of us have visions of the perfect English summers day: hours by the river, picnics, girls in Laura Ashley frocks riding creaking bicycles while church bells chime softly in the distance.
- Staring at the clock, Autumn waited the five seconds left before the bell would chime.
- Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
- Elsewhere, other fireworks lit the night sky, as the St Magnus Cathedral bells chimed over Broad Street revellers and Stromness echoed to the sound of ships' horns.
- At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village.
- The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell.
- I reminded myself that it would be over when the bell chimed, and there was no need to look at the clock.
- The people of Manchester honked horns and blew whistles as the town hall bells chimed for a minute to show support for the ‘Big Bang’ Metrolink extension.
- Wedding bells were chiming merrily in the parish recently.
- Out of the blue came a long, beautiful note, followed by more, until they were strung into what sounded like fairies singing and bells chiming.
- At every door in the street there is a shivering first-foot whose task, once the bells have chimed, is to enter and prevent the family from being prisoners in their own home.
- As I listened to these bells chiming and the birds singing, I thought to myself that this was the quintessence of a peaceful American university campus.
- A bell chimed from a grandfather clock in the corner of the room.
- As the bells chimed at 3.30 pm seven police officers - six men and one woman - removed their helmets in a mark of respect to their fallen comrade watched by about 25 bystanders.
- A bell chimed as Mr. Wellington entered the print shop with an empty sack and perspiration shining on his brow.
- At 10.29 am, when the second tower collapsed, bells chimed and fog-horns of boats on the nearby Hudson River sounded.
- SOME HOURS before the New Year bells chime at midnight, the light from the evening sun peeps through the dark clouds - a ray of hope for 2004.
- As Vincent pushed the glass door open, the small bells chimed.
- It was a relief when the bells chimed at the end of the period.
Synonyms ring, peal, toll, sound ding, dong, clang, boom, resound, reverberate tinkle, jingle, jangle archaic knell rare tintinnabulate strike, sound indicate, mark 2chime with" or "chime in withBritish Be in agreement with. 协调，一致 his poem chimes with our modern experience of loss 他的诗与我们现代的失落感一致。 Example sentencesExamples - The forum chimes with the Government's White Paper calling for more community involvement in planning decisions.
- One passage chimes with my present state of mind.
- But now the same complaint is chiming with adults, angered by a decision to go to war that flies in the face of public opinion.
- The move also chimes with the stated aims of Charlotte Beers, who was appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs last month.
- Housing experts believe that the market in Scotland will continue to slow this year with rises pegged at around an average of 5% at the most, chiming with the results of the YouGov survey.
- Moreover, the apparently abstract nature of many of the paintings - particularly those with a limited range of colours and a simple geometric composition - chimes with the modern design aesthetic.
- It chimes with that awful embarrassment and fear of the family construct being dismantled.
- I understand that the original reason for the creation of the European Community no longer chimes with younger people.
- Turpin's journey from east London butcher's boy to legendary highwayman chimes with the re-invention of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs as the jack-the-lad beach boy of Brazil.
- From where I sit, that chimes with the man, capturing nicely what seems to be a prickly earnestness and an eagerness to convert everyone to his way of thinking.
- Leaving pensioners who rely solely on the state pension with such a paltry sum hardly chimes with the government's pledge to care for the vulnerable.
- Penman's account of four young men, all descendants of Stewart of Lorne, practising their shooting skills in order to pick the man with the best chance of success also chimes with Hunter's research.
- But the street culture of respect dangerously chimes with that of the politicians: both are couched in terms of threat, control and fear.
- Something about it chimes with the British character.
- His observation chimes with anecdotal evidence.
- This chimes with a common sense appreciation of the fact that, with food and alcohol becoming cheaper and more plentiful than in the past, people must be eating more.
- Mr Herdan said: ‘That's the direction we are going in and it chimes with the entitlement card.’
- We have a clear sense of co-operative purpose which chimes with the times and is increasingly commercial.
- There's a freewheeling, finger-clicking vibe to all the performances which certainly chimes with the original actors' charisma and schmoozy ease.
- This certainly chimes with my experience of having put a number of specific allegations about supposedly untrue stories to the paper.
Synonyms accord, correspond, be consistent, be compatible, agree, be in agreement, be in accordance, fit in, be in harmony, harmonize, be in tune, be consonant, be similar informal square
Phrasal Verbs ‘Yes, you do that,’ Dave chimed in eagerly “是的，由你来做，"多琳急切地插话说。 Example sentencesExamples - Her friend Cheryl chimes in: ‘We gave up on aerobics.’
- Dan chimes in: ‘People seem to have forgotten that being in a rock band is by its nature ridiculous.’
- Lord chimes in: ‘I really think this form of animation is the best way of conveying emotion.’
- ‘The work in the plantation is difficult,’ a tea-plucker chimes in, her fingers deftly plucking the leaves with ease and then transferring them to a basket cradled from her forehead.
- At this point, my manager chimes in over the airwaves.
- ‘There's a marvellous new wiping-up sponge on the market that I was able to tell Tina about; she was thrilled,’ he chimes in, laughing.
- ‘Neither can Beryl,’ one of the other middle-aged serving matrons chimes in.
- My dad takes a break from the tan lady to chime in.
- I can almost hear you chiming in, and no doubt you'll want to compile your own list.
- Malorni chimes in: ‘I had a big black welt on my head.’
- The young woman's male counterpart quickly chimed in, interrupting her.
- It's going to be very hot, says Barney, to murmurs of assent from Crimson Brit and Urban Chic man, chiming in for the first time.
- Just thought I'd chime in during the commercial break.
- ‘The human being will never be happy,’ Cáceres chimes in.
- The estate agent quickly chimes in: ‘But, er, well, you know, that's, um, that's definitely in the mid-range of what you'd usually pay for a one-bedroom flat in London.’
- Tansy chimes in, her big brown eyes sparkling, ‘You'll never have to leave!’
- I normally refrain from chiming in to an editor, but this story piqued my civic conscience.
- Lachlan chimes in that the family is giving up hundreds of millions of dollars of value to get the change of domicile done.
- I'll have Rosalynn chime in on that right after we come back from the break.
- Fellow Razor Dog Ian Penny Pennington chimes in: ‘We played at the All Age Rage and showed them how it's done.’
Synonyms interject, interpose, intervene, interrupt, butt in, cut in, break in, join in, join the conversation
Derivativesnoun ˈtʃʌɪməˈtʃaɪmər It was a very proud moment when, just before graduation, I put my name up on the wall with all of the other previous chimers. Example sentencesExamples - The most surreal presence was a black-and-white monitor of the conductor, there for the benefit of the backstage conductress to direct a chimer who had to ape the sounds of church bells.
- Luckily, it's one of those funky wireless contraptions, so we can put the chimer anywhere in the apartment.
- For over eighty years generations of parishioners, since 1924, the chimers have climbed these long stairs to ring the chimes to world.
- Third, as shown in the following billboards, some chimers may be tinkling the bells of inappropriate servers.
OriginMiddle English (in the senses 'cymbal' and 'ring out'): probably from Old English cimbal (see cymbal), later interpreted as chime bell. cymbal from Old English: The shape of a cymbal is central to its name: it comes via Latin cymbalum from Greek kumbalon, from kumbē ‘cup’. Chime (Middle English) was first recorded as meaning ‘cymbal’ as a noun, and ‘ring out’ as a verb. It is probably the Old English form, cimbal (which would have been pronounced with a ‘ch’ sound, the modern ‘s’ sound coming from French) later interpreted as chime bell.
Rhymesbegrime, Chaim, climb, clime, crime, dime, grime, half-time, I'm, lime, mime, mistime, part-time, prime, rhyme, rime, slime, sublime, sub-prime, thyme, time noun tʃʌɪmtʃaɪm The projecting rim at the end of a cask. （桶端的）凸边 Example sentencesExamples - First, the rim or 'chime' of a cask was bevelled to slope inwards, and then finished off with a smaller sharp adze.
- These chimes have a rim portion with an in-turned flange that fits into a groove located in the cask.
- There is disclosed a cask and chime assembly wherein the cask has end surface side wall portions of reduced diameter relative to the central wall surface portion of the cask.
OriginLate Middle English: probably from an Old English word related to Dutch kim and German Kimme. Compare with chine3. nountʃaɪmCHīm often chimes1A bell or a metal bar or tube, typically one of a set tuned to produce a melodious series of ringing sounds when struck. （尤指组成一套敲击乐器的）钟，铃；金属棒；金属管 Example sentencesExamples - Even when the mood becomes threatening, as on the gloomy The Moon Versus The Sea or Mytikas, Haugh balances it with airy bells and chimes.
- Some looked like variants of things I recognized; there were string instruments like lutes or small guitars, there were drums, chimes, tambourines.
- Swooning, proggy mellotron sounds, crunchy electronic percussion, fat blobs of analogue synth, gamelan chimes and digital noise compete for centre stage in quickfire exchanges.
- The prepositions, in their bag, made a sound of agreement like metal chimes.
- A celeste is an antique piano that plays chimes, like a bigger, richer bell sound.
- And the background music totally had the bells and chimes and violins and cellos and soft brass going.
- Opening the door of the carriage, William stepped out and pulled the cord of the bell chime, listening as the sound echoed through the house.
- The use of chimes and tubular bells is another reason.
- Towards the end of the show, Lieberman hands out percussion instruments - triangles, chimes, shakers - and has no trouble finding volunteers to take the instruments.
- Take off the cover to the chimes or bells and inspect the points that strike the chime or bell for dirt.
- The sound of bells and chimes colored the breeze.
- The chimes and squiggling synths on ‘Run’ are forlorn reminders of this sound.
- The rich bass, sustaining guitar, and chimes offer a pleasing blend of sound, but goes on much too long for the amount of compositional advancement.
- Recorders whistle through delay pedals, tracing out skeletal melodies in a haze of chimes and throbbing bass as cymbals roll and drums rumble through ever-shifting pulse patterns.
- Here, Stewart's vocals hang in hazy suspensions of wafting guitars, piercing chimes, subliminal drones, and ornately wrought percussion.
- Strings, chimes, horns, pianos and bells appear in nearly every song, no matter how fast the tempo or searing the guitars, and, most importantly, they never feel forced.
- 1.1 A melodious ringing sound produced by striking a set of chimes.
I hear the chimes of the hour from the courthouse Example sentencesExamples - The chime of metal on metal sounded, and Lanfilar opened his eyes to see a very encouraging sight.
- Out of a buzzy analog haze, a stomping bassline gathers up all the lost children and, in a glorious series of chimes and welcoming blips, sends them out into a magical world of candy cane funk.
- A few seconds after she spoke, the crew of the Varian could hear the same mysterious chimes floating through the air, but this time, they did have a melody.
- With the chime of the glockenspiel and the slow pull of the violin the band began and invited us to witness a cavalcade of sound and images.
- Even out here, he had heard the chimes and was transported.
- Just as quickly, the band shoves terra firma back under your feet; drums die, pianos fade, and chimes reverb in the brickblack.
- The constant recycling of chimes seasoned with crowd noises, tube announcements and nature sounds acts as a sonic tour of the city.
- Reality of the situation came back down when I heard the chimes go through the house and I froze, horrified.
- Framed by a mixed bag of submerged synth sounds and clanging chimes, the moody ‘Lover's Rock’ lumbers out of the gate before settling into a nice trot.
- A chime of bells, normally in a tower, played either from a keyboard or mechanically by a barrel (like that of a barrel organ, but larger) or similar device.
- The cold morning breeze and a festive ambience, the chime of bells and melodious carols signal the arrival of Christmas.
- It starts with what sounds like the distant chimes of gamelan music reverberating around a cavern and then morphs into a different winding style every eight minutes or so.
- Through the thin trunks of birch and larger oaks, she could hear the flat chimes of running water, and knew she was close.
- The distant chime of bells sounded in the parlor.
- Chris waited outside of Mrs. Schmidt's Contemporary Issues class as the last chime of the bell rang through the hall.
- The next song, ‘All the Arms Around You’, wraps Diers's deadpan vocals with the ideal accoutrement: ringing chimes!
- In the silence between chimes, she had heard soft, well concealed steps as her watcher ran up the castle stairs.
- It sounded like melodious chimes ringing into my ears.
- Ty glanced around when he heard the chimes echo throughout the castle.
- For six minutes, the song flows leisurely across faintly ringing organ tones and chimes, with just a few scattered notes recalling some of Fahey's concrete leanings.
Synonyms peal, pealing, ringing, carillon, toll, tolling, sound - 1.2chimes A set of tuned metal rods used as an orchestral instrument.
Example sentencesExamples - And, of course, the only bells that ring there are not the clanging chimes of doom.
- The chimes feature five bronze tubes suspended from a handcrafted, hardwood birdhouse perfectly suited for a wren or a warbler.
- A low, rapid-heartbeat bassline runs under the song, and a staggering piano and flourishes of chimes break out of the near-silence like a burst of light before he passes out.
- This page is great for inspiration as it suggests ways of making a tambourine, drum, chimes, horn, cymbals, xylophone, guitar, comb buzzer and hand bells.
- We finished putting away the bass drum and chimes, and were just leaving when Tristan turned to me and inquired ‘Alli?’
- All the way through, chimes, strings and brass sections and various found sounds find their way to the heart of deceptively simple melodies to create an Eden-like sonic garden.
- Mr. Herman sits surrounded by 20 percussion instruments, including two timpani, vibraphones, glockenspiel, chimes, cymbals and sleigh bells.
- On Caribbean Odyssey he plays bongos, congas, timbales, cowbells, Hawaiian nose flutes, chimes and even the agogo bells.
- The voice seemed to glitter with the sound of chimes ringing together.
- Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas.
- Serean continued to curse and yell at the fish in her underground water garden when she heard a loud set of chimes chime and bells in the high tower ring to an old eerie tune.
- The students who crafted the chimes and other metal elements had to learn welding as a part of their ten-week experience.
- The music is fairly pleasing as well, a haunting melodic chime tune that feels quite at place with Kei and his psychological ruminations.
- Not that Metropolis reveals a sudden interested in perfecting the three-minute folk-pop song, but here Ficken doesn't let his vocals get upstaged by violins or chimes.
- The haunting guitars and swells drift over a shuffling break beat, brooding bass, and chimes.
- 1.3chimes A set of tuned bells used as a doorbell.
编铃（作门铃用） Example sentencesExamples - People choose chimes for two button doorbell circuits because they want different sounds for the front and back doors.
- Whether you choose chimes or bells, wiring the sound unit to the outside button is the same.
- Much like musical doorbell chimes: you can only listen to a badly midi-ized version of the William Tell overture once before you rip out the batteries and revert to knocking.
- It wasn't until we had reached the top platform in front of the door that we heard the bells and chimes tune telling everyone we had arrived.
- 1.4Bell-ringing A stroke of the clapper against one or both sides of a scarcely moving bell.
〔鸣钟术〕打铃，敲钟 Example sentencesExamples - With aching finality, the moon unseen reached its perihelion in the sky and the hour sounded the twelve chimes of middle night.
- The chime struck twice, to ring in the second millennium.
- The twelfth chime struck and Krizzia awoke panting.
- Time passes again, the same clock hands spin madly, the same bells ring and the same chimes chime.
- Doomsday was not on the agenda when the chimes struck midnight and 2000 was born.
verbtʃaɪmCHīm [no object]1(of a bell or clock) make melodious ringing sounds, typically to indicate the time. （钟，铃，时钟）发出和谐响声（尤指报时） with complement the clock chimed eight 钟敲响了八点。 Example sentencesExamples - SOME HOURS before the New Year bells chime at midnight, the light from the evening sun peeps through the dark clouds - a ray of hope for 2004.
- The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell.
- Out of the blue came a long, beautiful note, followed by more, until they were strung into what sounded like fairies singing and bells chiming.
- A bell chimed as Mr. Wellington entered the print shop with an empty sack and perspiration shining on his brow.
- Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
- As Vincent pushed the glass door open, the small bells chimed.
- The people of Manchester honked horns and blew whistles as the town hall bells chimed for a minute to show support for the ‘Big Bang’ Metrolink extension.
- I reminded myself that it would be over when the bell chimed, and there was no need to look at the clock.
- It was a relief when the bells chimed at the end of the period.
- At every door in the street there is a shivering first-foot whose task, once the bells have chimed, is to enter and prevent the family from being prisoners in their own home.
- As I listened to these bells chiming and the birds singing, I thought to myself that this was the quintessence of a peaceful American university campus.
- As the bells chimed at 3.30 pm seven police officers - six men and one woman - removed their helmets in a mark of respect to their fallen comrade watched by about 25 bystanders.
- At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village.
- Staring at the clock, Autumn waited the five seconds left before the bell would chime.
- Wedding bells were chiming merrily in the parish recently.
- The abbey's tenor bell chimed for the 101st time - once a minute for every year of the Queen Mother's life - as the service began.
- Elsewhere, other fireworks lit the night sky, as the St Magnus Cathedral bells chimed over Broad Street revellers and Stromness echoed to the sound of ships' horns.
- Most of us have visions of the perfect English summers day: hours by the river, picnics, girls in Laura Ashley frocks riding creaking bicycles while church bells chime softly in the distance.
- A bell chimed from a grandfather clock in the corner of the room.
- At 10.29 am, when the second tower collapsed, bells chimed and fog-horns of boats on the nearby Hudson River sounded.
Synonyms ring, peal, toll, sound strike, sound 2British Be in agreement; harmonize. his poem chimes with our modern experience of loss 他的诗与我们现代的失落感一致。 Example sentencesExamples - But the street culture of respect dangerously chimes with that of the politicians: both are couched in terms of threat, control and fear.
- One passage chimes with my present state of mind.
- Turpin's journey from east London butcher's boy to legendary highwayman chimes with the re-invention of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs as the jack-the-lad beach boy of Brazil.
- The move also chimes with the stated aims of Charlotte Beers, who was appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs last month.
- This certainly chimes with my experience of having put a number of specific allegations about supposedly untrue stories to the paper.
- It chimes with that awful embarrassment and fear of the family construct being dismantled.
- There's a freewheeling, finger-clicking vibe to all the performances which certainly chimes with the original actors' charisma and schmoozy ease.
- Leaving pensioners who rely solely on the state pension with such a paltry sum hardly chimes with the government's pledge to care for the vulnerable.
- Something about it chimes with the British character.
- Penman's account of four young men, all descendants of Stewart of Lorne, practising their shooting skills in order to pick the man with the best chance of success also chimes with Hunter's research.
- The forum chimes with the Government's White Paper calling for more community involvement in planning decisions.
- But now the same complaint is chiming with adults, angered by a decision to go to war that flies in the face of public opinion.
- This chimes with a common sense appreciation of the fact that, with food and alcohol becoming cheaper and more plentiful than in the past, people must be eating more.
- Moreover, the apparently abstract nature of many of the paintings - particularly those with a limited range of colours and a simple geometric composition - chimes with the modern design aesthetic.
- We have a clear sense of co-operative purpose which chimes with the times and is increasingly commercial.
- Mr Herdan said: ‘That's the direction we are going in and it chimes with the entitlement card.’
- His observation chimes with anecdotal evidence.
- From where I sit, that chimes with the man, capturing nicely what seems to be a prickly earnestness and an eagerness to convert everyone to his way of thinking.
- I understand that the original reason for the creation of the European Community no longer chimes with younger people.
- Housing experts believe that the market in Scotland will continue to slow this year with rises pegged at around an average of 5% at the most, chiming with the results of the YouGov survey.
Synonyms accord, correspond, be consistent, be compatible, agree, be in agreement, be in accordance, fit in, be in harmony, harmonize, be in tune, be consonant, be similar
Phrasal Verbs “Yes, you do that,” Doreen chimed in eagerly “是的，由你来做，"多琳急切地插话说。 Example sentencesExamples - Tansy chimes in, her big brown eyes sparkling, ‘You'll never have to leave!’
- Just thought I'd chime in during the commercial break.
- I normally refrain from chiming in to an editor, but this story piqued my civic conscience.
- The young woman's male counterpart quickly chimed in, interrupting her.
- ‘The human being will never be happy,’ Cáceres chimes in.
- Dan chimes in: ‘People seem to have forgotten that being in a rock band is by its nature ridiculous.’
- Lachlan chimes in that the family is giving up hundreds of millions of dollars of value to get the change of domicile done.
- ‘Neither can Beryl,’ one of the other middle-aged serving matrons chimes in.
- Malorni chimes in: ‘I had a big black welt on my head.’
- It's going to be very hot, says Barney, to murmurs of assent from Crimson Brit and Urban Chic man, chiming in for the first time.
- Her friend Cheryl chimes in: ‘We gave up on aerobics.’
- I'll have Rosalynn chime in on that right after we come back from the break.
- ‘The work in the plantation is difficult,’ a tea-plucker chimes in, her fingers deftly plucking the leaves with ease and then transferring them to a basket cradled from her forehead.
- Lord chimes in: ‘I really think this form of animation is the best way of conveying emotion.’
- At this point, my manager chimes in over the airwaves.
- I can almost hear you chiming in, and no doubt you'll want to compile your own list.
- My dad takes a break from the tan lady to chime in.
- ‘There's a marvellous new wiping-up sponge on the market that I was able to tell Tina about; she was thrilled,’ he chimes in, laughing.
- Fellow Razor Dog Ian Penny Pennington chimes in: ‘We played at the All Age Rage and showed them how it's done.’
- The estate agent quickly chimes in: ‘But, er, well, you know, that's, um, that's definitely in the mid-range of what you'd usually pay for a one-bedroom flat in London.’
Synonyms interject, interpose, intervene, interrupt, butt in, cut in, break in, join in, join the conversation Example sentencesExamples - Pete's younger brother, Simon Townshend, chimed in on rhythm guitar and vocals with long-time touring member pianist John Bundrick completing the line-up.
- I don't see these friends chiming in and signing the petition, do you?
- Its catchy chorus line, which the nineteen-year-olds like to chime in on for a sort of harmonic stereo effect, is ‘Can't believe that this is real / Do I really feel the way I feel?’
- Rufus Wainwright chimes in, as does Beck (doing a sublime cover of ‘Diamond Dogs’) and the man himself.
- Soon, all the fairies were chiming in that they would join Lucen in an attempt to escape.
- The light and breezy pop music carries a bit of The Beach Boys on its back and, when the ensemble harmonies and tambourine chime in, a smiling smidge of Partridge Family.
- You knew you were at an REM concert when the arpeggio notes of Everybody Hurts chimed in.
- Thank you very much for joining us and chiming in.
- The minor parties are also chiming in too - adding to the credence that National can form a government after the election.
- All right, Rick, Jeff, we appreciate you chiming in on it tonight and joining us.
- Then we do another two verse-chorus pairs and a break, with the electric chiming in sparsely.
OriginMiddle English (in the senses ‘cymbal’ and ‘ring out’): probably from Old English cimbal (see cymbal), later interpreted as chime bell. nountʃaɪmCHīm The projecting rim at the end of a cask. （桶端的）凸边 Example sentencesExamples - First, the rim or 'chime' of a cask was bevelled to slope inwards, and then finished off with a smaller sharp adze.
- These chimes have a rim portion with an in-turned flange that fits into a groove located in the cask.
- There is disclosed a cask and chime assembly wherein the cask has end surface side wall portions of reduced diameter relative to the central wall surface portion of the cask.
OriginLate Middle English: probably from an Old English word related to Dutch kim and German Kimme. Compare with chine. |