chiming
present participle ofchime
chime
verb[IorT]
uk/tʃaɪm/us/tʃaɪm/(ofbells) to make aclearringingsound:
In thesquarethechurchbellschimed.
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
Phrasal verb
chime in
Examplesofchiming
chiming
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
And the velvety texture of the mezzo-soprano, the gentle,chimingostinati and scurrying strings: sensual not cerebral.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such a reanalysis, as in the case of the canonical hours, would have been strengthened by a discrete signal such as a bellchiming.
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All of a sudden you notice not only that there is a bellchiming, but that there were six chimes in all.
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Chimingin with the liberals' synthesizing, nationalist ambitions, this objective order has come to sound suspiciously organicist and conservative.
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The other amendment in this group is what parliamentary counsel call achimingamendment.
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It has been found necessary to overhaul and clean the great clock and to re-hang some of thechimingbells.
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I am not aware of any widespread demand for the general prohibition of thechimingof public clocks.
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They arechimingin as well as anybody else.
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With great respect, it is our clock, and we do have to pay for its work andchiming.
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It is an entirely new experience to have a debate on the fishing industry without midnightchiming.
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This will necessitate stopping the hour strike for up to 12 weeks and allchimingand striking for two days whilst the mechanism is disconnected and when it is reconnected.
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This will necessitate stopping the hour strike for up to 12 weeks and allchimingand striking for two days while the mechanism is disconnected and when it is re-connected.
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It is very unusual for me to talk in this way, but 12 o'clock is approaching so fast that one can almost hear the clockchiming.
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I love its dreaminess and the sweetness of the melody and thechimingguitars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tower holds the largest four-facedchimingclock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower.
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