Bell vs Chime - What's the difference?
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A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
* 1848 , Edgar Allan Poe, "(The Bells)"
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
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(chiefly, British, informal) A telephone call.
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
(nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
(computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
* Shakespeare
(architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
(slang) To telephone.
* 2006 , Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
To bellow or roar.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature :
* (rfdate) Rudyard Kipling
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:
(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 .
An individual ringing component of such a set.
A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
The sound of such an instrument or device.
A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
To make the sound of a chime.
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
* Dryden
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
* Byron
To agree; to correspond.
* Washington Irving
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Chime is a synonym of bell.
In transitive terms the difference between bell and chime
is that bell is to attach a bell to while chime is to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.In intransitive terms the difference between bell and chime
is that bell is to bellow or roar while chime is to agree; to correspond.As a proper noun Bell
is a Scottish and northern English surname for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn).bell
English
(wikipedia bell)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- HEAR the sledges with the bells —
- Silver bells !
- What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
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- I’ll give you a bell later.
- In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Derived terms
* * bell curve * bellbottoms * bellflower * bell-ringer * bell tower * * bicycle bell * bluebell * church bell * doorbell * handbell * harebell * ring someone's bell * saved by the bell * sound as a bell * with bells onSee also
* alarm * buzz * buzzer * carillon * chime * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesperVerb
(en verb)- Who will bell the cat?
- to bell a tube
- "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.''
- Hops bell .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- This animal is said to harbour'' in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to ''bell'' ; the print of his hoof is called the ''slot''; his tail is called the ''single''; his excrement the ''fumet''; his horns are called his ''head [...].
- As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
- Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.
chime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cymbalum'' (perhaps via (etyl) ''chimbe ).Noun
(en noun)- Sylvia had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
- Hugo was a chime player in the school orchestra.
- Peter removed the C
- chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.
- The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.
- The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
- Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
Derived terms
* chimistSynonyms
(Synonyms) * alarm * bell * buzz * buzzer * carillon * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesperVerb
(chim)- The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
- I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon.
- And chime their sounding hammers.
- Chime his childish verse.
- The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
- Everything chimed in with such a humor.
- (Cowley)
