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trill

Trill vs Hirrient - What's the difference?

trill | hirrient |


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.

As an adjective hirrient is

(phonology) having a strongly trilled sound, like that of a cat purring.

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