d A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C
If you say that a woman trills, you mean that she talks or laughs in a high-pitched voice which sounds rather musical but which also sounds rather irritating. `How adorable!' she trills
A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages
The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue
An ornament performed by the rapid alternation of a given note with a major or minor second above
An ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two pitches, the main pitch, and the pitch a whole or half step above it
{f} produce a trill, utter or play with a rapid alternation between two adjacent tones, produce a rapid succession of sounds, warble
To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note
A deliberate attempt to alternate rapidly between a base note and an adjacent higher note; a musical ornament
A trill is the playing of two musical notes repeatedly and quickly one after the other