Pulsate vs Trill - What's the difference?
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to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat
to quiver, vibrate, thrill
to produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity
(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 verbs the difference between pulsate and trill
is that pulsate is to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat while 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 a noun trill is
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.pulsate
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(en-verb)Derived terms
{{der3, pulsatile , pulsation , pulsator , pulsatory}}trill
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(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.