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Trill vs Thill - What's the difference?

trill | thill |

As nouns the difference between trill and thill

is that 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 while thill is one of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

As a verb 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.

trill

English

(Trill consonant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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 .

    • Derived terms

    * trilly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
  • To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
    • to trill a note, or the letter r
  • * Thomson
    • The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
  • (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
    • And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
  • * Glover
    • Whispered sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.

    Derived terms

    * triller ----

    thill

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fill (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
  • The thin stratum of underclay which lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
  • *1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 405:
  • *:One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof.