Word Finder - trill

definition

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.

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A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr.

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A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

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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.

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To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

example

to trill a note, or the letter r

In this excerpt, Tom has just played a trill.

Two cats known to each other may chirrup or trill when playing.

The trill call is an aggressive call and is interspersed with the advertisement call possibly as a means of defending the calling site.

As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest.

In another garden tree a Dunnock gives a short trill of it 's tingling song.

The call of the Crested Tit is a distinctive little trill, and you should soon be picking them up all over the place !

Note too the fork and pin arrangement for the side trill key, which gives a very nice feel in use.

I then found that the second trill key had a slight ' blip ' in its action.

The ' weep ' notes gradually build up into an ecstatic bubbling trill.

Pectoral sparrow -- makes a superb high trill, which you might not hear.

In another garden tree a Dunnock gives a short trill of it's tingling song.

A plaintive, piping trill with the rather mournful qualities of a diver echoed across the still water.

The call of the Crested Tit is a distinctive little trill, and you should soon be picking them up all over the place!

The Next Generation races such as the Cardassians and the Trill played a larger role in the DS9 universe.

Here the climate changes drastically as the music dissolves into a long trill on a C major chord.

The science officer assigned to Deep Space Nine was a Trill, a species that embraced symbiosis with another life form.

She's also feminine and strong, and has had a number of relationships during her tenure in Star Fleet, notably with a trill symbiot who, in the course of their romance, is forced to switch hosts, leaving its male host for a female one.

His fortunes, however, were not thereby seriously affected, for by this time his business capacity and organizing skill had enabled him to consolidate his position, in spite of the difficulties he had encountered not only from rival manufacturers but also from the working classes, who in 1779 displayed their antipathy to labour-saving appliances by destroying a large Trill he had erected near Chorley.