Trill
verb
To make a sound with a high, quick repetition.
She trilled the high notes beautifully in the song
Often appears as...
- trill a note
- trill a song
noun
A high, quick, repeated sound.
The bird's trill was a beautiful soundtrack to our picnic
Often appears as...
- bird's trill
- beautiful trill
verb
In speech, to produce a trilled sound.
She could trill her 'r's in Spanish
Often appears as...
- trill an 'r'
- trill a consonant
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In music, a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes.
He played the trill perfectly on the piano
Often appears as...
- play a trill
- trill on the piano
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make a sound with a high, quick repetition.
She trilled the high notes beautifully in the song
Often appears as...
- trill a note
- trill a song
noun
A high, quick, repeated sound.
The bird's trill was a beautiful soundtrack to our picnic
Often appears as...
- bird's trill
- beautiful trill
verb
In speech, to produce a trilled sound.
She could trill her 'r's in Spanish
Often appears as...
- trill an 'r'
- trill a consonant
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In music, a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes.
He played the trill perfectly on the piano
Often appears as...
- play a trill
- trill on the piano
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Vocal Expertise
The verb 'trill' often indicates a singer's skill to rapidly shift pitch.
The opera singer was able to trill effortlessly.
Pro Tip 2/2Birdsong Description
'Trill' commonly describes bird sounds, suggesting a pleasant and natural quality.
Awakening in the forest, I listened to the birds trill.
Pro Tip 1/2Vocal Expertise
The verb 'trill' often indicates a singer's skill to rapidly shift pitch.
The opera singer was able to trill effortlessly.
Pro Tip 2/2Birdsong Description
'Trill' commonly describes bird sounds, suggesting a pleasant and natural quality.
Awakening in the forest, I listened to the birds trill.
Pro Tip 1/2Vocal Expertise
The verb 'trill' often indicates a singer's skill to rapidly shift pitch.
The opera singer was able to trill effortlessly.
Pro Tip 2/2Birdsong Description
'Trill' commonly describes bird sounds, suggesting a pleasant and natural quality.
Awakening in the forest, I listened to the birds trill.
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A Grumpy Shoebill...
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Art can fail PIPE JR
don't want to do that however sometime when I'll go against advertising you can do great thing this is another campaign of Lavazza by David LaChapelle it's not really the work of David LaChapelle that trills me here but what came out of it I don't know if you're familiar with the work of a
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4 Powerful Poems about...
Odd that the modest brain never imagined its unique value in research, maybe saving someone else from what it is they're not quite sure I have. Flattering, that. So fill in the forms, drill through the answers, trill out a blithe spirit.
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Why do whales sing? -...
Clicks, pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals,
Video examples
A Grumpy Shoebill...
one of these buns one lollipop two lollipop three and then he laid it on a plate at the barbie fierce assassin emmanuel macvittie you know the new lad we got from mayor blackboard rovers for three point four trill you know the the winger who in turn plays at hadley to kemp to harley to kemp to fry to tenant to
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Art can fail PIPE JR
don't want to do that however sometime when I'll go against advertising you can do great thing this is another campaign of Lavazza by David LaChapelle it's not really the work of David LaChapelle that trills me here but what came out of it I don't know if you're familiar with the work of a
Video examples
4 Powerful Poems about...
Odd that the modest brain never imagined its unique value in research, maybe saving someone else from what it is they're not quite sure I have. Flattering, that. So fill in the forms, drill through the answers, trill out a blithe spirit.
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
Clicks, pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals,
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Naomi Shihab Nye
American Novelist
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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Brian Eno
British Musician
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
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Anna Netrebko
Russian Musician
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
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Dimebag Darrell
American Musician
Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.
Quote examples
Naomi Shihab Nye
American Novelist
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
Quote examples
Brian Eno
British Musician
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
Quote examples
Anna Netrebko
Russian Musician
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
Quote examples
Dimebag Darrell
American Musician
Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.
Example 1 of 4
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