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Chime and Bong Definitions

Chime

An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.

Bong

A deep ringing sound, as of a bell.

Chime

Often chimes(Music) A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument.

Bong

A water pipe that consists of a bottle or a vertical tube partially filled with liquid and a smaller tube ending in a bowl, used often in smoking narcotic substances.

Chime

A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
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Bong

To cause to sound with a deep ringing noise.

Chime

The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.

Bong

To make a deep ringing noise.

Chime

Agreement; accord
A flawless chime of romance and reality.

Bong

(slang) The clang of a large bell.
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Chime

The rim of a cask.

Bong

(slang) Doorbell chimes. en

Chime

To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.

Bong

A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana.

Chime

To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.
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Bong

An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.

Chime

To be in agreement or accord
Harmonize.

Bong

A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

Chime

To produce (music) by striking bells.

Bong

(ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

Chime

To strike (a bell) to produce music.

Bong

(slang) To pull a bell.

Chime

To signal or make known by chiming
The clock chimed noon.

Bong

(slang) To ring a doorbell.

Chime

To call, send, or welcome by chiming.

Bong

To smoke a bong.

Chime

To repeat insistently.

Bong

Ring loudly and deeply;
The big bell bonged

Chime

(musical instruments) 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.
Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra.

Chime

An individual ringing component of such a set.
Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.

Chime

A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.

Chime

The sound of such an instrument or device.
The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.

Chime

A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.

Chime

(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon.

Chime

(transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

Chime

(transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Chime

(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.

Chime

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

Chime

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
Instruments that made melodius chime.

Chime

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.

Chime

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

Chime

To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

Chime

To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
Everything chimed in with such a humor.

Chime

To join in a conversation; to express assent; - followed by in or in with.

Chime

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

Chime

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.

Chime

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Chime his childish verse.

Chime

A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer

Chime

Emit a sound;
Bells and gongs chimed

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