Lilt vs Intonation - What's the difference?
lilt | intonation |
To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
* Tennyson
Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
*:Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt , he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
A thundering; thunder.
As nouns the difference between lilt and intonation
is that lilt is animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness while intonation is the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.As a verb lilt
is to do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.lilt
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Wordsworth)
- A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
Noun
(en noun)See also
* brogue * drawl * lisp * twang (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* *intonation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her intonation was false.
- (Bailey)