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Definition of 'trill'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) trill
a rapid alternation of two adjacent musical tones; shake.

2.  trill
a similar quavering sound, as that made by a bird or a person laughing.

3.  trill
a sequence of rapid vibratory movements produced in a speech organ, as the tongue or uvula, by air from the lungs, causing a corresponding sequence of contacts between the vibrating articulator and another surface.

4.  trill
a speech sound produced by a trill.

5. (v.t.) trill
to sing, utter, or play with a trill.

6.  trill
to pronounce with a trill: to trill an r.

7. (v.i.) trill
to perform or utter a trill.

Etymology: (1635–45; < It trillo, appar. of expressive orig.)

Definition of 'trill'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) trill, shake
a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

2. (verb) trill
the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula
"he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill"

3. (verb) trill
pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'
"Some speakers trill their r's"

4. (verb) warble, trill, quaver
sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

Definition of 'trill'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) trill
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. (noun) trill
the action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

3. (noun) trill
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

4. (verb) trill
to flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle

5. (verb) trill
to turn round; to twirl

6. (verb) trill
to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note

7. (verb) trill
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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