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Treble vs Gorget - What's the difference?

treble | gorget |

As nouns the difference between treble and gorget

is that treble is (music) the highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition while gorget is (historical) a piece of armour for the throat.

As an adjective treble

is threefold, triple.

As an adverb treble

is trebly; triply.

As a verb treble

is to multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.

treble

English

(wikipedia treble)

Adjective

(-)
  • Threefold, triple.
  • * Dryden
    • A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.
  • (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
  • * 1957 , :
  • *:He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.
  • High in pitch; shrill.

    • Antonyms

    * (music) bass * (maths) third

    Related terms

    * treble clef * treble staff

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Trebly; triply.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
  • (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
  • Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
  • A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
  • (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
  • (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
    • As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday.

    Verb

    (trebl)
  • To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
  • To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
  • To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
  • To utter in a treble key; to whine.
  • * Chapman
    • He outrageously / (When I accused him) trebled his reply.

    Anagrams

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    gorget

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
  • * 1663 ,
    • About his neck a threefold gorget , / As rough as trebled leathern target
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
  • * 1968 , (Michael Moorcock), The Mad God's Amulet , Gollancz 2003, p. 209:
    • Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget .
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 500:
    • Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
  • (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  • An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  • * 1917 , (Washington Irving), :
    • There was
  • (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  • A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
    • (Dunglison)
  • (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * gorget hummer