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Wriggle vs Trill - What's the difference?

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Wriggle is a related term of trill.


In lang=en terms the difference between wriggle and trill

is that wriggle is to cause to or make something wriggle while trill is to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

As verbs the difference between wriggle and trill

is that wriggle is to twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm 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 wriggle and trill

is that wriggle is a wriggling movement 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.

wriggle

English

Verb

(wriggl)
  • To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
    • Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1972 , author=Carlos Castañeda , title=The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge , page=78 citation , passage=I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.}}
  • To cause to or make something wriggle.
    • He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.

    Derived terms

    * wriggler * wriggly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wriggling movement.

    • 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 ----