Totter vs Trill - What's the difference?
totter | trill | Related terms |
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
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(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
Totter is a related term of trill.
As nouns the difference between totter and trill
is that totter is an unsteady movement or gait while 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 verbs the difference between totter and trill
is that totter is to walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall 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.totter
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Verb
(en verb)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter , slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
Synonyms
* (move unsteadily) teeter, toddle, swaytrill
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.
