Chime vs Chide - What's the difference?
chime | chide |
(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.
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
(obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
(ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between chime and chide
is that chime is to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically while chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.As verbs the difference between chime and chide
is that chime is to make the sound of a chime while chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.As a noun chime
is 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.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)
Derived terms
* chime in, chime upEtymology 2
See chimb.Anagrams
*chide
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Verb
- 1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .
- 1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .
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- 1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
- As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
- the sea that chides the banks of England