CHIMES Synonyms

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• the sound of a bell being struck

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

• (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

• the shape of a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• the flared opening of a tubular device

• attach a bell to

• a metallic sound

• a comic verse of irregular measure

• make a sound typical of metallic objects

• a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

• ring recurrently

• sound loudly and sonorously

• a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges

• value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

• the sound of a bell being struck

• ring slowly

• charge a fee for using

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• the sound of a bell being struck

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

• (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

• the shape of a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• the flared opening of a tubular device

• attach a bell to

• a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• sound a gong

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

• sound of rapid vibration

• a confusion of activity and gossip

• make a buzzing sound

• fly low

• be noisy with activity

• call with a buzzer

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound

• set of bells hung in a bell tower

• playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower

• someone who applauds

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

• the time that the curfew signal is sounded

• a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions

• an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited

• the noise made by a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers

• a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

• ring recurrently

• sound loudly and sonorously

• a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)

• a person who is almost identical to another

• a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses

• (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

• a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

• a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived

• a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

• an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

• eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

• the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)

• a bell used to sound an alarm

• a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges

• value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

• the sound of a bell being struck

• ring slowly

• charge a fee for using