noun. A fluttering or tremulous sound, as that made by certain birds; a warble.

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noun. The rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart.

noun. A vibrato.

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noun. A rapid vibration of one speech organ against another, as of the tongue against the alveolar ridge in Spanish rr.

noun. A speech sound pronounced with such a vibration.

intransitive verb. To sound, sing, or play with a trill.

intransitive verb. To articulate (a sound) with a trill.

intransitive verb. To produce or give forth a trill.

To turn round rapidly; twirl; whirl.

To roll to and fro; rock.

To throw; cast.

To pour out.

To roll.

To rock; swing to and fro; shake; quiver.

To roll down, as water; trickle.

To sound with tremulous vibrations.

To sing in a quavering manner; specifically, to execute a shake or trill.

To sing in a quavering or tremulous manner; pipe.

To pronounce with a quick vibration of the tongue; roll, as the sound of r.

noun. A quavering, tremulous sound; a rapid, trembling series or succession of tones; a warbling.

noun. In music, same as shake, 5; also, formerly, the effect now called the vibrato.

noun. A consonant pronounced with a trilling sound, as r.

intransitive verb. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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

intransitive verb. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

transitive verb. To turn round; to twirl.

noun. 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.

noun. The action of the organs in producing such sounds. d.

noun. 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. See Shake.

noun. 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.

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

verb. To create a trill sound.

verb. To trickle.

verb. pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'

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

noun. a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

"Most painful to me, however, is that the trill, which is so important to the understanding of the sonata's main theme, is to be played fortissimo, while elsewhere in the movement remaining remote and mysterious."

passing trill  prepared trill  

Trilling  trilled  trilly  

articulate  articulation  enounce  enunciate  musical note  

Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  

Trilling  beep  cackle  cadence  carol  

Bebung  anthem  babble  ballad  bubble  

shake  

trilled  trilling  trills