- to sing or play with a vibratory or quavering effect.
- to produce (a sound) with a trill.
- (of birds, insects, etc.) to sing or utter in a succession of rapidly alternating sounds.
- to resound vibrantly, or with a rapid succession of sounds, as the voice, song, or laughter.
- to utter or make a sound or succession of sounds resembling such singing, as a bird, frog, grasshopper, or person laughing.
- to execute a shake or trill with the voice or on a musical instrument.
- to execute a trill, especially with the tongue, as while singing, talking, or whistling.
- the act or sound of trilling.
- a rapid alternation of two adjacent tones; a shake.
- a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc.
- 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.
- to flow in a thin stream; trickle.
- to cause to flow in a thin stream.
- a melodic ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between a principal note and the note a whole tone or semitone above it
- a shrill warbling sound, esp as made by some birds
- phonetics
- the articulation of an (r) sound produced by holding the tip of the tongue close to the alveolar ridge, allowing the tongue to make a succession of taps against the ridge
- the production of a similar effect using the uvula against the back of the tongue
- to sound, sing, or play (a trill or with a trill)
- to pronounce (an (r) sound) by the production of a trill
- an archaic or poetic word for trickle
