Chime vs. Bong: What's the Difference?

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