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Dictionary Definition of trills
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trill verb (t) 1. to sing with a vibratory effect of voice, especially in the manner of a shake or trill. 2. to play with like effect on an instrument. 3. Phonetics to pronounce with rapid vibrations of an elastic organ of speech: Spanish 'rr' is trilled with the tip of the tongue. 4. (of birds, etc.) to sing or give forth in a succession of rapidly alternating or changing sounds. -- verb (i) 5. to resound vibrantly, or with a rapid succession of sounds, as the voice, song, laughter, etc. 6. to utter, give forth, or make a sound or a succession of sounds more or less resembling such singing, as a bird, a frog, a grasshopper, a person laughing, etc. 7. to execute a shake or trill with the voice or on a musical instrument. -- noun 8. the act or sound of trilling. 9. Music a trilled sound, or a rapid alternation of two consecutive notes, in singing or in instrumental music; a shake. 10. a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc. 11. Phonetics a. a trilled articulation. b. a trilled consonant, as Spanish rr. [It. trillo, noun, quaver or warble in singing; of Gmc origin] |
