TRILL
\tɹˈɪl], \tɹˈɪl], \t_ɹ_ˈɪ_l]\
Definitions of TRILL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
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pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
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To turn round; to twirl.
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To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
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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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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.
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The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
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To turn round; to twirl.
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To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
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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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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.
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The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A snake or vibration of the voice on a letter or musical tone; as, the trill of a bird; in music, a shake; any vibration; as, to trill one's r's.
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To utter with a vibration; as, to trill one's r's.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To shake: to utter with a tremulous vibration: to trickle or flow in a small stream.
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A quaver or tremulous vibration.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald