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Definition: Trill |
TrillNoun1. A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it. Verb1. Pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme 'r'; "Some speakers trill their r's". 2. Sing with trills. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trill" was first used: 1649. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Cyclic crystal twin consisting of three individuals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:trilling. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In modern musical notation a trill is generally indicated with the letters tr above the staff. This has sometimes been followed by a squiggly line, and sometimes in the past, the sqiggly line on its own was used. The following two notations are equivalent:
The usual way of executing a trill is to rapidly alternate between the note indicated and the note above:
It should be noted that this is an approximation of how a trill might be executed. In many cases, the rate of the trill will not remain constant as indicated here, but will start slower and became more rapid. Whether a trill is played in this way or not is largely a matter of taste.
The number of alterations between notes can vary according to the length of the note in question. At slower tempos a note will last longer, meaning more notes can be played in the trill, but with a fast tempo and short note a trill might be reduced to nothing more than the indicated note, the note above and the indicated note again.
Trills may also be played beginning on the note above the one indicated (the auxiliary note). Additionally, a trill is often ended by playing the note below the one indicated followed by the note itself. This means that an alternative interpretation of the above trill might be
In the Baroque period, a number of signs indicating specific patterns with which a trill should be begun or ended were used. In the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach lists a number of these signs together with the correct way to interpret them.
Unless one of these specific signs is indicated (and beyond the Baroque period they are very rare), there are no definite rules about whether a trill starts on the main note or the auxiliary note and whether the above alternative ending or some similar alternative beginning is used. These factors, together with the overall rate of the trill and whether that rate is constant or variable, can only be determined by considering the context in which the trill appears, and is usually to a large degree a matter of opinion with no single "right" way of executing the ornament.
The trill is frequently found in classical music for all instruments, although it is more easily executed on some than others. For instance, it is relatively easy to produce a trill on the piano, but on the trombone it is virtually impossible because of the slide mechanism.
The Trill are two symbiotic races of aliens in the fictional Star Trek universe. See Trill (Star Trek).
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Trill are a race of symbiotic lifeforms native to the Alpha Quadrant.The hostss, as they are called, are a humanoid race with either characteristic black or brown spots running down the sides of their neck or an odd forhead. The forehead type were only seen in one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The spotted Trills appeared throughout Deep Space Nine.
The symbionts are helpless, worm-shaped lifeforms who contain the memories of their previous hosts, and who inhabit the abdomens of the humanoid hosts. When a host and a symbiont are joined, the resulting individual is considered a new being, and being joined is an honor that only a small portion of the race is capable of. When a host dies, the symbiont is transplanted into a new host. A symbiont who is neither implanted into a new host nor returned to their habitat (pools of nutrient-rich liquid on the Trill homeworld) will quickly die, as will a joined Trill host from whom the symbiont is removed.
In rare cases, Trill symbionts can be joined with non-Trill humanoids, but the results are unstable. ("The Host" (TNG))
A joined Trill replaces his or her family name with the name of the symbiont; for example, when Ezri Tigan was joined with the symbiont Dax, her name became Ezri Dax.
Trill society has a taboo against resuming relationships with loved ones from one's past joining, on the principle that each life must be unique. ("Rejoined" (DS9))
Notable Trills
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Synonyms: TrillSynonyms: shake (n), quaver (v), warble (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trill |
| English words defined with "trill": euphonious, euphonous ♦ Mordente ♦ rolled, rolling ♦ To roll one's r's, trilled, Trillo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trill": Trillo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Trill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, kink, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), Scottish (sand plover). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest. |
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| "Trill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Trill" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "trill" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Trill | Last name | 130 | 67,026 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "trill": mid-trill. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trill | 67 |
home.com trill | 31 |
devil trill | 8 |
chart flute trill | 5 |
entertainment trill | 4 |
dragster top trill | 3 |
gone trill | 3 |
home.com linkdomain trill | 3 |
trill ville | 3 |
kill trill | 3 |
indicator trill | 2 |
ride trill | 2 |
star trek trill | 2 |
guitar trill | 2 |
trill violin | 2 |
learn trill violin | 2 |
lesson trill violin | 2 |
play trill violin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dredhje (curl, tortuosity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لفظ بترديد اللسان, تردد سريع في اللسان, سال (flow, flux, gather, liquefy, liquidate, pour, run, seep, shed, smear, stream), زغردة (shrill), زغرد (ululate), جر (drag, dragging, draw, draw out, entrain, lug, pull, purchase, retrieve, sweeping, tow, traction, trail, train), الحرف المردد, رعشة صوتية, رجفة في الغناء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тремоло (judder, quaver, tremolo), трели (warble), треперливо чуруликане на птица, вибриращ звук 'р', произнасям звука 'г' с вибрация, извивам трели. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trylkovat (quaver, warble), trylek (quaver), klokotat (gurgle), klokot (gurgle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trillers maken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | trilo, trili. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیچانیدن , چرخیدن (Pivot, Reel, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), لرزیدن (Dither, Dodder, Flicker, Quail, Quake, Quiver, Shake, Shiver, Shudder, Throb, Tremble, Vibrate), لرزش صدا, حرف عله , علت (Cause, Disease, Motive, Reason), روان شدن (Flow, Gush), باتحریرخواندن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liverre, kolmoiskide (threeling, trilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trillern (quaver, to trill, warble), Triller (warble, warbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κελαηδώ (chirp, chirrup, warble), στάζω (burst, dribble, drip, drop, leak, ooze, seep, trickle), λαρυγγισμόσ (burr, yodel, yodle), λαρυγγίζω (gobble, quaver, yodel, yodle), τρεμούλιασμα (quaver, shivering, trembling, tremor, tremulousness), τρίδυμος κρύσταλλος (threeling, trilling), τερετίζω (chatter, cheep, chirrup, stridulate, twitter, warble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"סתלסל (become curly, spiral, wave), לטרלל (warble), לסלסל (curl, extol), טריל (shake), טרלול, סלסול קול, סלסול (curl, curling, twirl, waving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trilla (quaver, shake, thrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | getaran (frequency, gyration, pulsation, quaver, quiver, shock, vibration), getar (tremble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trillo (beep, chirr, quaver, ring, roulade), trillare (ring), trigeminato (threeling, trilling), gorgheggiare (warble, yodel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trim, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トリル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rowlal (roll, rolling), cur craa rish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illtray trinado (carol, warble), trilo (roulade). (various references) tril (shake), pirui (twitter), geamparale (bones, castanets), cânta în triluri (shake, warble), cânta (Carol, crow, pipe, play in, resound, sing, tune, vocalize, warble). (various references) трель (mordent, quaver, shake, warble). (various references) trilovati (warble), triler (shake, thriller), treperiti (quiver, tremble, waver), treperenje jezika pri izgovoru, ćurlik. (various references) trino (quaver, roulade, shake, warble), trinar (quaver, shake, warble), trinado, vibración (flutter, jar, judder, pulsation, pulse, shudder, throb, throbbing, vibration), quiebro (sidestep), pronunciar con vibración, gorjeo (chirp, chirrup, piping, twitter, warble), gorjear (chirp, chirrup, gurgle, twitter, warble), gorgorito (warble), cristal triple (threeling, trilling). (various references) drilla (Carol, cram, drill, exercise, tootle, warble, whistle). (various references) sesini titretmek (quaver, warble), sesi titremek (twitter), ses titremesi, şakımak (jug, roll, sing, sing out, warble), ötüş (call, crowing, singing, song). (various references) трель (quaver, warble), виводити трелі (warble). (various references) cwafrio (quaver), crychlais (tremolo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | trillare, trillio, triglio. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trill": trilled, triller, trillers, trilling, trillion, trillions, trillionth, trillionths, trillium, trilliums, trills. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trill": multitrillion, multitrillions, pralltriller, pralltrillers. (additional references) | |
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"Trill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crill, stryll, tirl, Tirril, Torill, Torvil, Traill, Trakl, tral, trala, trel, treli, trell, triall, triel, tril, trilla, trilli, trilly, triol, troil, Trull, trulli, trullo, Tryall, Turrill, txil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trill" (pronounced tri"l) |
| 3 | -r i" l | brill, drill, frill, grill, grille, krill, prill, rill, shrill, thrill. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: lilt, rill, till, tirl. | |
-2 letters: ill, lit, til. | |
-3 letters: it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: rillet, thrill, tiller, trills. | |
+2 letters: literal, litoral, littler, rillets, stiller, tallier, thrills, tillers, trellis, trilled, triller. | |
+3 letters: antiroll, arillate, billeter, clitoral, inthrall, laetrile, literals, littoral, paltrily, rallyist, ritually, rototill, stillier, sultrily, tailleur, talliers, telluric, thrilled, thriller, tillered, tornillo, tortilla, tribally, trillers, trilling, trillion, trillium, trilobal, trollied, trollies, trolling, willyart. | |
+4 letters: allergist, allethrin, alligator, altricial, argillite, artillery, belittler, bilateral, billeters, braillist, brilliant, brittlely, cloistral, distiller, fertilely, filtrable, flatliner, frilliest, gristmill, hillcrest, installer, instiller, intercell, intertill, inthralls, kiloliter, laetriles, literally, littorals, lordliest, maritally, martially, millerite, palliator, partially, pellitory, pluralist, plurality, prothalli, rallyists, redistill, reinstall, reliantly, retelling, rillettes, rototills, rubellite, shrillest, stairwell, sterilely, stillborn, stillroom, strolling, tailleurs, tamarillo, tellurian, telluride, tellurium, thralling, thrillers, thrilling, tillering, tillerman, tillermen, titularly, tonsillar, tornillos, tortillas, trailless, treadmill, treillage, trellised, trellises, trillions, trilliums, trivially, trollings, trollying, virtually. | |
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