Definitions for trilling

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trilling Tril·ling

Spelling: [tril-ing]

IPA: /ˈtrɪl ɪŋ/

Trilling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in trilling (giillnrt).

Definitions for trilling

noun

1. Lionel, 1905–75, U.S. critic and author.
2. the act or sound of trilling.
3. Music. a rapid alternation of two adjacent tones; a shake.
4. a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc.
5. 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 trilling

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 trilling

In words like lerne, doghter, r was pronounced with some degree of Trilling.

A pensive quail piped an answer to the Trilling call from the meadows.

Just before dawn he was awakened by high-pitched, Trilling, elfin music.

A canary-bird was Trilling songs in a cage hung out on the porch.

Then voices, the high, Trilling laugh of Climene floating upwards.

He heard her no longer talking to the dogs, Trilling to the canary.

She could hear the dogs barking in the garden and Clarissa's Trilling laugh.

As he rides back through the woods, the birds are Trilling among the trees.

That is called warbling, or Trilling, or trolling, or something.

The larks were Trilling overhead, everything was humming and singing.