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Vibrate vs Trill - What's the difference?

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Vibrate is a related term of trill.


As verbs the difference between vibrate and trill

is that vibrate is to move with small movements rapidly to and fro 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 nouns the difference between vibrate and trill

is that vibrate is the setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms 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.

vibrate

English

Verb

  • To move with small movements rapidly to and fro.
  • To resonate.
  • Her mind vibrates with excitement.
  • To brandish; to swing to and fro.
  • to vibrate a sword or a staff
  • To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
  • a pendulum vibrating seconds
  • To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
  • * Holder
  • Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may impress a swift, tremulous motion.
  • * Tennyson
  • Star to star vibrates light.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
  • Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.

    Anagrams

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    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 ----