Trill vs Warble - What's the difference?
trill | warble | Synonyms |
(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
To modulate a tone's frequency.
To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
To cause to quaver or vibrate.
* Milton
To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
* (rfdate) Gay
(military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.
A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma .
Warble is a synonym of trill.
In intransitive terms the difference between trill and warble
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 warble is to be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.In transitive terms the difference between trill and warble
is that trill is to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill while warble is to cause to quaver or vibrate.trill
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.
Derived terms
* triller ----warble
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(warbl)- touch the warbled string
- Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.