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Trill

noun

A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it. Synonym: shake.

The articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant 'r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula.

verb

(past & past part. trilled; pres. part. trilling)

Pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme 'r'.

Sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below. Synonyms: quaver, warble.

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"Trill" Quotes from Famous Books

... an irresistible trill of laughter. The South Wellmouth station agent joined her. Galusha smiled in a fatherly fashion ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... Song's excess, Sings the blackbird late and early: Nor the bobolink's trill the less Laughs for very happiness, Gurgling through its ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... look came in her hardened face— She had not wept for years; But the robin's trill, as some sounds will, Jarred open the door of tears. She thought of the old home far away; She heard the whr-r-r of the mill; She heard the turtle's wild, sweet call, And the wail of the ...

— The Kingdom of Love - and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... voice of Spring, The thrush's trill, the cat-bird's cry, Like some poor bird with prisoned wing That sits and sings, but ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... midst of a winning game, I still watched eagerly and ungratefully for manatees. Kiskadees splashed rather than flew through the drenched air, an invisible black witch bubbled somewhere to herself, and a wren sang three notes and a trill which died out in a liquid gurgle. Then came another crocodile, and finally the manatees. Not only did they rise and splash and roll and indolently flick themselves with their great flippers, but they stood upright on their tails, like Alice's ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

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