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Chimed

Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] [See Chime, n.]

  1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

  2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

    Everything chimed in with such a humor.
    --W. irving.

  3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]

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

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chimed

vb. (en-past of: chime)

Usage examples of "chimed".

Now the airlock intercom chimed, and almost at once Nick's voice crackled across the silence.

The crystal jug that held the spiced sa wine chimed as it was set on its polished stone tray - nearly empty now, Arakasi judged by the ring of the glass.

The calley-bird feathers in the urn by the clothes chest streamed in the disturbance, and the bells of an unsold child's toy chimed their priceless song into the stillness.

The air chimed and sang off the edges of his spinning projectiles long after the last of Mara's warriors had fallen dead, Incomo sprawled among them in a crumple of silk robes like some incongruous trodden flower.

Behind him, the communications console chimed softly, signaling an incoming call.

Jack chimed in, "the reading-and-writing, communication-screen-watching, machinery-operating Fuzzies that are living at Holloway Station and Mallorys-port?

Naturally, he grimaced irritably and cursed profanely under his breath when his private communications screen chimed softly.

The timer chimed on his public 'screen and he turned from the early morning sunlight and brisk, invigorating fresh air to go inside and watch the news 'cast.

If they hit their targets, the system then chimed the appropriate chord.