Trill
Definition of Trill
| v. i. | 1. | To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. | | v. t. | 1. | To turn round; to twirl. | | 1. | To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note. | | v. i. | 1. | To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. | | n. | 1. | | | 1. | A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth - tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip - against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages. | | 2. | The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d | | 3. | (Mus.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake. |
Related Words
Bebung, anthem, babble, ballad, bubble, burble, cackle, call, carol, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, croon, crow, cuckoo, descant, distill, do-re-mi, dribble, drip, drop, drum, falter, flutter, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hoo, hoot, hum, hymn, intonate, intone, lap, leak, leak out, lilt, minstrel, peep, pip, pipe, plash, psalm, purl, quack, quaver, quiver, ripple, roll, roulade, scold, serenade, shake, sing, sing in chorus, slosh, sol-fa, solmizate, splash, squawk, swash, swish, tremble, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, trickle, trillet, trilleto, trillo, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, vibrato, vocalize, warble, wash, weep, whistle, yodel
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