Trilled vs Cheerful - What's the difference?
trilled | cheerful |
(trill)
(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
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
As a verb trilled
is (trill).As an adjective cheerful is
noticeably happy and optimistic.trilled
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Verb
(head)trill
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(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.
