What's the difference between bell and chime?

Bell


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
  • (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
  • (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
  • (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
  • (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
  • (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
  • (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
  • (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
  • (v. t.) To utter by bellowing.
  • (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
  • (2) The bell-shaped dose-response curves observed after irradiation with either X rays or neutrons are explained by assuming simultaneous initial transforming events and cell inactivation with the data for cell inactivation at higher doses being in agreement with data reported for other strains of mice.
  • (3) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
  • (4) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
  • (5) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
  • (6) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (7) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
  • (8) For an "FM specialized" cell, the response pattern to each of the parameters was either monotonic or bell-shaped.
  • (9) On the other hand they showed bell-shaped promotive effects on PRL-ovarian receptor binding, the maximal effects being observed at 10-20 mM.
  • (10) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (11) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (12) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
  • (13) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
  • (14) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
  • (15) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
  • (16) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
  • (17) At a higher concentration (20 microM), effects of RP 62719 on inotropy and lusitropy were less marked, thus accounting for the bell-shaped form of the dose-response curve.
  • (18) Had the Bell and Loop criteria been used to decide which patients had skull radiography, 35% (all in children) of the fractures would have gone undetected.
  • (19) At late cap stage and at early bell stage receptors are not present at inner enamel epithelium level but they can be detectable in the mesenchyma of dental papilla and in some cells of the follicle.
  • (20) They found her and rang the emergency bell,” she said.

Chime


Definition:

  • (n.) See Chine, n., 3.
  • (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
  • (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
  • (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
  • (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
  • (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
  • (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7.46am BST Thanks for all the comments on the blog this week - terrific how you are chiming in.
  • (2) They need tents very badly,” said Kempo Chimed Tsering.
  • (3) But one reason is that they chime with those of a powerful section of the political and security establishment.
  • (4) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
  • (5) The software is very new.” The car will chime to remind drivers to put their hands back on the wheel, but that hasn’t stopped people experimenting – with hair-raising effects.
  • (6) Martin pantomimes the motion, holing up his fingers dramatically, and Malhotra chimes in with a “ding!” when the phantom bullet falls.
  • (7) Clegg's words chime with a strategy of highlighting differences with the Tories as the election approaches.
  • (8) Many of the causes backed by the brothers clearly chime with their own self-interests.
  • (9) He also said it was up to politicians to dismiss the 'lightweight sloganeering of PR men', an apparent reference to the way in which cabinet ministers are asked to chime in with the government over its implementation of a long-term economic plan.
  • (10) Two thirds of the 415 million people around the world who have type 2 diabetes live in cities That chimes with an important study published by Toronto Public Health, which looked into the increasing incidence of mental health problems and suicides in the city’s population.
  • (11) The government’s upcoming National Innovation Plan needs to address this vital issue.” Month-on-month figures showed a slight improvement in activity, chiming with official data that shows a recent upturn in manufacturing output.
  • (12) This is a very big project for me and my family.” But his reflections on what he has seen so far chime with Bravo’s concern about an absence of Darwinism in Qatari football.
  • (13) She is intrigued by the way houses either chime with you or don't.
  • (14) I am very happy to have this particular candidate chime in, I really am,” he said.
  • (15) The dip from 48,300 in July to 47,400 last month was the fourth fall in a row and chimed with other recent evidence that demand for property has weakened since the start of 2010.
  • (16) If any of this chimes with your general view of what's wrong with the world, it's fair to say that you'd like her.
  • (17) The allegations are potentially damaging because they appear, superficially at least, to chime with previous claims about Mrs Netanyahu's temper and concern with cleanliness.
  • (18) The negative outlook chimes with other surveys that reveal a dramatic slump in sentiment since the summer.
  • (19) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
  • (20) If you were in New York – and this chimes well with what I remember from my own youth in the city – the average worker thought it was a pain in the neck to live in this fairly dangerous city.