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Chine vs Chime - What's the difference?

chine | chime |

In transitive terms the difference between chine and chime

is that chine is to cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces while chime is to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

chine

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) chyne, from (etyl) eschine.

Noun

(wikipedia chine) (en noun)
  • The top of a ridge.
  • The spine of an animal.
  • * Dryden
    • And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
  • * 1883:
  • A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  • (nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
  • The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

    • Verb

    (chin)
  • To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  • To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , from (etyl) cine, (cinu). The Old English term is cognate to Old Saxon kena, and is related to the Old English verb ("to split open, to sprout").

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
  • * J. Ingelow
    • The cottage in a chine .
  • * 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169
    • In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.

    Anagrams

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    chime

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cymbalum'' (perhaps via (etyl) ''chimbe ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 .
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The sound of such an instrument or device.
    • The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
  • 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.
    Derived terms
    * chimist
    Synonyms
    (Synonyms) * alarm * bell * buzz * buzzer * carillon * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesper

    Verb

    (chim)
  • 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.
  • To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • * Dryden
    • And chime their sounding hammers.
  • To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  • * Byron
    • Chime his childish verse.
  • To agree; to correspond.
    • The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Everything chimed in with such a humor.
  • To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
    • (Cowley)

    Derived terms

    * chime in, chime up

    Etymology 2

    See chimb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chine; the edge of a cask.
    • (Webster 1913)

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