Definitions for trills

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Spelling: [tril]

IPA: /trɪl/

Trills is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in trills (illrst).

Definitions for trills

noun

1. the act or sound of trilling.
2. Music. a rapid alternation of two adjacent tones; a shake.
3. a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc.
4. Phonetics. a sequence of repetitive, rapid, vibratory movements produced in any free articulator or membrane by a rush of air expelled from the lungs and often causing a corresponding sequence of contacts between the vibrating articulator and another organ or surface. a speech sound produced by such a trill.

verb (used with object)

1. to sing or play with a vibratory or quavering effect.
2. Phonetics. to produce (a sound) with a trill.
3. (of birds, insects, etc.) to sing or utter in a succession of rapidly alternating sounds.
4. to cause to flow in a thin stream.

verb (used without object)

1. to resound vibrantly, or with a rapid succession of sounds, as the voice, song, or laughter.
2. to utter or make a sound or succession of sounds resembling such singing, as a bird, frog, grasshopper, or person laughing.
3. to execute a shake or trill with the voice or on a musical instrument.
4. Phonetics. to execute a trill, especially with the tongue, as while singing, talking, or whistling.
5. to flow in a thin stream; trickle.

Origin of trills

1635-45; Italian trillo quaver or warble in singing ≪ Germanic; compare Dutch trillen to vibrate, late Middle English trillen to shake or rock (something)

Examples for trills

The collection included t-shirts featuring street wear brand Been trill, jeans, and hoodies.

Fomishka warbled out and waited for Snandulia to play the trill.

The only sound he could hear was the trill and chirp of the insects of the woods.

No man will ever be able to say 'Amy,' or to say 'Ginevra,' with such a trill as they are saying it.

"No, my dear, not quite," the Dean replied; and his voice had a trill at the back of it like a bird's.

He indulged copiously in the trill, which he produced by shaking his head.

Is the alternation of the thumb and the second finger desirable in the playing of a trill?

Outside she could hear the sigh of the oaks and the trill of young voices.

Even assuming full extension of Bush tax cuts, which add their own $5 trillion or so to the deficit, Romney adds another $3 trill.

Who teaches the young chipper to trill, and the young linnet to warble?