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Piping vs Shrill - What's the difference?

piping | shrill |

As verbs the difference between piping and shrill

is that piping is while shrill is to make a shrill noise.

As nouns the difference between piping and shrill

is that piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching while shrill is a shrill sound.

As adjectives the difference between piping and shrill

is that piping is high-pitched while shrill is high-pitched and piercing.

piping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  • The sound of musical pipes.
  • An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  • A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
    • the piping of a house
  • An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
  • An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  • Piped icing on a cake.
  • (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  • (botany) propagation by cuttings

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • High-pitched.
    • His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

    Derived terms

    * piping hot

    See also

    *

    shrill

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • High-pitched and piercing.
    • She spoke in a shrill voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give / To sounds confused.
  • * Byron
    • Let winds be shrill , let waves roll high.
  • Sharp or keen to the senses.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a shrill noise.
  • * Spenser
    • Break we our pipes, that shrill'd loud as lark.
  • * Goldsmith
    • No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
  • * L. Wallace
    • His voice shrilled with passion.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shrill sound.
    • (Spenser)