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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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chime

/tʃaɪm/ noun, verb

Also a form of chine

Forms chimes chiming chimed

  1. noun (music) 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. “Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.”
  2. noun 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.”
  3. noun 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.”
  4. noun The sound of such an instrument or device. “The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.”
  5. noun 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.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime. “The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.”
  7. verb (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  8. verb (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  9. verb (intransitive) To agree; to correspond. “The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.”
  10. verb To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Synonyms

alarm bell buzz buzzer carillon clapper curfew ding-dong dinger glockenspiel gong peal ringer siren tintinnabulum tocsin toll vesper

Etymology

From Middle English chymbe, chyme, probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble, cimble, from Latin cymbalum; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Chine, n., 3.
  2. noun The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
  3. noun A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
  4. verb To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

Etymology [See Chimb.]

Etymology [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. Cymbal.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “chime”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details