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Trill vs Tremor - What's the difference?

trill | tremor |

As nouns the difference between trill and tremor

is that 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 while tremor is a shake, quiver, or vibration.

As verbs the difference between trill and tremor

is that 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 while tremor is to shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.

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 ----

    tremor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tremour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shake, quiver, or vibration.
  • She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
  • An earthquake.
  • Did you feel the tremor this morning?

    Verb

  • To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
  • Derived terms

    * tremorous * tremorously