Wave vs Trill - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between wave and trill

is that wave is to have an undulating or wavy form 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.

In transitive terms the difference between wave and trill

is that wave is to signal (someone or something) with a waving movement while trill is to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

In intransitive obsolete terms the difference between wave and trill

is that wave is to fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state while trill is to trickle.

wave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) waven, from (etyl) .

Verb

(wav)

(lb) To move back and forth repeatedly.

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(lb) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.

(lb) To have an undulating or wavy form.

(lb) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea

(lb) To produce waves to the hair.

*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved', put in curlers overnight, ' waved with hot tongs;.

To swing and miss at a pitch.

(lb) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

(lb) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.

To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

:(Sir Thomas Browne)

To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.

* (1809-1892)

*:She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.

Derived terms

* wave off * waver * wave the white flag

Etymology 2

From (etyl) *.

Noun

(en noun)

A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.

The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.

(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

Gravity waves , while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.

A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

Her hair had a nice wave to it.

sine wave

(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.

A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.

A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.

A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.

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A sideway movement of the hand(s).

With a wave of the hand.

A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit. Usually referred to as "the wave"

Derived terms

* Elliott wave * make waves * Mexican wave * waveband * wave field synthesis * wave function * waveguide * wavelength * wavelet * wave mechanics * wave number * wave packet * wave-particle duality * wave ski * wave train * wave vector * wavy

Synonyms

* (an undulation) (l)

Etymology 3

See waive.

Verb

(wav)

English ergative verbs

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 ----