Brill vs Trill - What's the difference?
brill | trill |
(UK, slang) Wonderful, clever, amusing. Denotes approval of the noun it is applied to, comparable to "cool".
(music) 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.
(phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation, for example, Spanish rr .
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.
* Dryden
To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
* Thomson
(obsolete) To trickle.
*, II.30:
*:I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.
* Shakespeare
* Glover
As a proper noun brill
is .As a noun trill is
(music) 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.As a verb trill is
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.brill
English
Etymology 1
Possibly from (etyl)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (brilliant).Adjective
(en adjective)See also
*trill
English
(Trill consonant)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* trillyVerb
(en verb)- To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
- to trill a note, or the letter r
- The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
- And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
- Whispered sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.