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Webster 1913 Edition
Trill
Trill
,Verb.
I.
[OE.
trillen
to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla
to roll, Dan. trilde
, Icel. þyrla
to whirl, and E. thrill
. Cf. Thrill
.] To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
Sir W. Scott.
And now and then an ample tear
Her delicate cheek.
trilled
downHer delicate cheek.
Shakespeare
Whispered sounds
Of waters,
Of waters,
trilling
from the riven stone. Glover.
Trill
,Verb.
T.
[OE.
trillen
; cf. Sw. trilla
to roll.] To turn round; to twirl.
[Obs.]
Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and
trill
another pin. Chaucer.
Trill
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Trilled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trilling
.] [It.
trillare
; probably of imitative origin.] To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill;
as, to
trill
the r; to trill
a note.The sober-suited songstress
trills
her lay. Thomson.
Trill
,Verb.
I.
To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
To judge of
trilling
notes and tripping feet. Dryden.
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 languages2.
The action of the organs in producing such sounds;
as, to give a
. d trill
to the tongue3.
(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
. See trill
on the high CShake
. Webster 1828 Edition
Trill
TRILL
,Noun.
TRILL
,Verb.
T.
The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
TRILL
,Verb.
I.
And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
Her delicate cheek.
1.
To shake or quaver; to play in tremulous vibrations of sound. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
Definition 2024
trill
trill
English
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, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.30:
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.30:
Translations
to make a tremulous sound
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Derived terms
Albanian
Noun
trill ? (indefinite plural trillime, definite singular trilli, definite plural trillimet)