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trill
1[ tril ]
verb (used with object)
- to sing or play with a vibratory or quavering effect.
- Phonetics. to produce (a sound) with a trill.
- (of birds, insects, etc.) to sing or utter in a succession of rapidly alternating sounds.
verb (used without object)
- to resound vibrantly, or with a rapid succession of sounds, as the voice, song, or laughter.
- to utter or make a sound or succession of sounds resembling such singing, as a bird, frog, grasshopper, or person laughing.
Synonyms: warble, twitter, tweet, sing, peep, chirrup, chirp, cheep
- to execute a shake or trill with the voice or on a musical instrument.
- Phonetics. to execute a trill, especially with the tongue, as while singing, talking, or whistling.
noun
- the act or sound of trilling.
- Music. a rapid alternation of two adjacent tones; a shake.
- a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc.
Synonyms: song, pipe, peep, chirrup, chirr, chirp, cheep, call, birdsong, twitter, tweet
- Phonetics.
- a sequence of repetitive, rapid, vibratory movements produced in any free articulator or membrane by a rush of air expelled from the lungs and often causing a corresponding sequence of contacts between the vibrating articulator and another organ or surface.
- a speech sound produced by such a trill.
trill
2[ tril ]
verb (used without object)
- to flow in a thin stream; trickle.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to flow in a thin stream.
trill
1/ trɪl /
trill
2/ trɪl /
noun
- music a melodic ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between a principal note and the note a whole tone or semitone above it Usual symbolwritten above a notetr.tr
- a shrill warbling sound, esp as made by some birds
- phonetics
- the articulation of an (r) sound produced by holding the tip of the tongue close to the alveolar ridge, allowing the tongue to make a succession of taps against the ridge
- the production of a similar effect using the uvula against the back of the tongue
verb
- to sound, sing, or play (a trill or with a trill)
- tr to pronounce (an (r) sound) by the production of a trill
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Example Sentences
The collection included t-shirts featuring street wear brand Been Trill, jeans, and hoodies.
Even assuming full extension of Bush tax cuts, which add their own $5 trillion or so to the deficit, Romney adds another $3 trill.
If it passed the inspection, he would nod contentedly, trill out a gay refrain, and replace it on the easel for further study.
A trill, or rapid reiteration of two notes comprehending an interval not greater than one whole tone, nor less than a semitone.
Then from somewhere above him came such a trill of demoniacal laughter as chilled his blood.
My comrade sings in such a way that I am sure the nightingales outside will cease to trill from pure envy.
Some singers have this gift; Mme. Melba is one who never had to study a trill, for she was born with a nightingale in her throat.
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