chime vs doorbell

chime

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. 

  • To agree; to correspond. 

doorbell

noun
  • A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building. 

  • A button that activates an electric doorbell. 

verb
  • To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit. 

  • To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit. 

How often have the words chime and doorbell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )