trill
trill is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
- transitive verb. To turn round; to twirl.
- transitive verb. To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
- intransitive verb. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
- 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; as, the r is a trill in most languages.
- noun. The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. 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; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.
- noun. a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- noun. the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula
"he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill"
- verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- verb. pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'
"Some speakers trill their r's"
Synonyms
Common word forms
trills, trilled, triller, trilling
Words from these letters
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