trill
English
Etymology
From Middle English trillen. Compare Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɪl/
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Noun
trill (plural trills)
- (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
- (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr.
Derived terms
Translations
rapid alternation of notes
vibrating consonant
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Verb
trill (third-person singular simple present trills, present participle trilling, simple past and past participle trilled)
- (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
- Dryden
- To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
- Dryden
- (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
- to trill a note, or the letter r
- Thomson
- The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 30, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc […] who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.
- Shakespeare
- And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
- Glover
- Whispered sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.
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Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to make a tremulous sound
Albanian
Norwegian Bokmål
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