What is "trill"

Trill \Trill\, v. t. [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.] To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.]
--Gascoigne.

Bid him descend and trill another pin.
--Chaucer.

Trill \Trill\, v. i. [OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
--Sir W. Scott.

And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek.
--Shak.

Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.
--Glover.

Trill \Trill\, n. [It. trillo, fr. trillare. See Trill to shake.]

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

3. (Mus.) 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.

Trill \Trill\, v. i. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
--Dryden.

Trill \Trill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] [It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.] To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
--Thomson.

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.

n. 1 (context music English) 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. 2 (context phonetics English) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation, for example, Spanish ''rr''. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. 2 (context transitive English) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill. 3 (context intransitive obsolete English) To trickle.

1. n. a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it [syn: shake]

2. v. pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"

3. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below [syn: warble, quaver]

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 mordent and tremolo). It is sometimes referred to by the German triller, the Italian trillo, the French trille or the Spanish trino. A cadential trill is a trill associated with a cadence.

A trill provides rhythmic interest, melodic interest, and—through dissonance— harmonic interest. Sometimes it is expected that the trill will end with a turn (by sounding the note below rather than the note above the principal note, immediately before the last sounding of the principal note), or some other variation. Such variations are often marked with a few appoggiaturas following the note that bears the trill indication.

Trill may refer to:

• Trill (music), a type of musical ornament
• Trill consonant, a type of sound used in some languages

Trill is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist and member of the southern hip hop duo UGK Bun B. It was released on October 18, 2005, by Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 118,000 copies in the United States. Trill was supported by three singles: " Draped Up" featuring Lil' Keke, " Git It" featuring Ying Yang Twins, and " Get Throwed" featuring Pimp C, Young Jeezy, Z-Ro and Jay-Z.

TRILL ("Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links") is an IETF Standard implemented by devices called RBridges ( routing bridges) or TRILL Switches. TRILL combines techniques from bridging and routing and is the application of link state routing to the VLAN-aware customer-bridging problem. RBridges are compatible with and can incrementally replace previous IEEE 802.1 customer bridges. They are also compatible with IPv4 and IPv6 routers and end nodes. They are invisible to current IP routers and, like routers, RBridges terminate the bridge spanning tree protocol.