trilled
past simple and past participle oftrill
trill
verb[I]
uk/trɪl/us/trɪl/Whenbirdstrill, theysingaseriesofquicklyrepeatedhighnotes.
literary
tospeakin a very highvoice:
[+ speech]"I'll berightdown!" trilled Daphne.
Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bleat
- buzzy
- caterwauling
- chatter
- cockcrow
- coo
- cry
- hee-haw
- honk
- howling
- miaow
- moo
- peep
- purr
- quack
- squeak
- trill
- trumpet
- warble
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Examplesoftrilled
trilled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A repeating function controlling the frequency of a single tone produces smoothertrillednotes than overlapping tones does.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Its calls are variable, often low-pitchedtrilledor gurgling whistles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are noisy birds, with atrilledwhistled "treee-tee-tee-tee-tee call".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That is, like affricates andtrilledaffricates, the reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants lies primarily in their behavior.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The call is a rollingtrilled"breep", and the song is a hard rolling repletion of "zerlip".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The voiced alveolar stop may havetrilledrelease depending on dialect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has a "queep" whistle followed by atrilled"trrrrrr".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is a conspicuous species, with atrilled"threeee" call, or a sharp "weet".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is not clear if they are actuallytrilled, or are simply non-sibilant affricates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apart from the buzzing display song, white-bearded manakin has a number of other calls, including atrilledmusical "peeerr".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Retroflex is more stronglytrilledthan the other rhotics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Males set up territories right away, and theirtrilledsongs make them conspicuous.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has a distinctive "tabirr" call and a fine, acceleratingtrilledsong, which can be used sparingly to call it into sight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The call is a stridenttrilled"nya, nya, nya".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Increasing the stricture of a typical trill results in atrilledfricative.
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