chime vs clapboard

chime

verb
  • To make the sound of a chime. 

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

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

  • To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. 

  • 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. 

clapboard

verb
  • To cover with clapboards. 

noun
  • A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production. 

  • A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction. 

  • Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding. 

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