What's the difference between chime and component?

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.

Component


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
  • (n.) A constituent part; an ingredient.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (2) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (3) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
  • (4) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
  • (5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (6) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
  • (7) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
  • (8) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (9) CRF-ir cells were for the most part concentrated in the medial parvocellular component of PVN.
  • (10) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (11) Mixtures of 2 components involving kappa-casein were more readily dephosphorylated than alphas- and beta-casein mixtures.
  • (12) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
  • (13) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
  • (14) Normal cultured human epidermal melanocytes and melanoma cells derived from three different malignant melanomas were examined for synthesis of extracellular matrix components before and after treatment for one day with interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, or both.
  • (15) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (16) Two-dimensional SDS-PAGE (non-reduced and then reduced) analyses of HSV-1-infected HEL cells treated with the cleavable cross-linker DTBP demonstrated that molecules that comigrated with gC were the only components of these high Mr complexes.
  • (17) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
  • (18) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
  • (19) In the presence of high external Cl, a component of outward current that was inhibited by the anion channel blocker diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC) appeared in 70% of the cells.
  • (20) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.