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Warble vs Warbling - What's the difference?

warble | warbling |

As verbs the difference between warble and warbling

is that warble is to modulate a tone's frequency while warbling is .

As nouns the difference between warble and warbling

is that warble is (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 or warble can be a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus hypoderma while warbling is a sound that warbles.

warble

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(warbl)
  • To modulate a tone's frequency.
  • To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
  • To cause to quaver or vibrate.
  • * Milton
    • touch the warbled string
  • To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
  • * (rfdate) Gay
    • Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.
    Synonyms
    * (sense, to modulate a tone's frequency) trill

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    From Middle English werble, (at least for the noun) from (etyl) werbel (mole cricket), cognate to Walloon waerbea.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma .

    • Derived terms

    * warble fly

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    warbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that warbles.
    • the warblings of birds in the hedgerows
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes

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