chime vs reverberate

chime

verb
  • To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. 

  • To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. 

  • To make the sound of a chime. 

  • To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. 

  • To agree; to correspond. 

noun
  • A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell. 

  • The sound of such an instrument or device. 

  • An individual ringing component of such a set. 

  • 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. 

  • A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. 

reverberate

verb
  • To ring or sound with many echos. 

  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. 

  • To rebound or recoil. 

  • To have a lasting effect. 

  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side. 

  • To repeatedly return. 

  • To fuse by reverberated heat. 

  • To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.). 

adj
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected. 

  • reverberant 

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