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trill
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Italian trillio, triglio "a quavering or warbling in singing," probably ultimately of imitative origin. The verb is 1660s, from Italian trillare "to quaver, trill." Related: Trilled ; trilling .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The trill (or shake , as it was known from the 16th until the 19th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes , usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trill. (compare ...
Usage examples of trill.
Tuckwell, I felt remorse scatter in instrumental brilliance, bravura trills, shakes, flourishes, demisemiquavers.
As Uhura and Maslin moved past several of them chirped and trilled while bobbing their heads up and down.
Awakening at dawn when the first pale light was flowing in through the open window, I was enchanted to hear the trill of a bird-song, tremulous and ethereally sweet, the love-call of some unknown melodist to its mate.
And then there was no summit, no Nertha, and no Whistler, save for his frantic trilling call pervading everything.
He uttered trills and roulades, and then loud, vibrating notes that filled the air and seemed to lose themselves on the horizon, across the level country, through that burning silence which weighed upon the whole landscape.
When the wind was right, she could hear large amphibians roaring on the banks of rivers, and the little tetrapods peeped or trilled in their courting seasons, but most of the noise here came from wind, water, and foliage.
Quick trills of Trinary, unslowed for human ears except for that one brief command, and the whining of their harnesses.
There was briefly audible the small trilling sound, exotic and ventriloquial in quality, which was the thing he did in moments of mental surprise.
A chorus of crickets kicked off all around them, a trilling cacophony rising in an asynchronous wall of sound.
Trill symbiont, immersed in brine that held a frozen glitter of bioelectric activity.
The probe had detected a unique bioelectric signature emanating from inside the comet, one that Starfleet scientists found comparable to that of a tiny percentage of Trills.
It was enough to show Dax what Bashir had already seen-the unmistakable gray-white mass of a naked Trill symbiont, immersed in brine that held a frozen glitter of bioelectric activity.
At first, I had thought it a distant birdcall from the garden, but now I realized that the soft trilling matched the cadence of breath.
The chatty trills of newly returned wagtails and chiffchaffs came through the open windows of the imperial residence along with the sunbeams and the sweet scent of the cherry blossoms now in riotous pink bloom all around the building.
I had the impression he was translating the words from another tongue, a language of giggles and turkey gobbles and coos and purrs and whimpers and trills.