trilling
present 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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Examplesoftrilling
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Instead,trillingwoodwind engage in a dialogue with the brass as the energy slowly dissipates, and the work ends unresolved.
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Trilling, for example, is remembered more for his criticism and teaching than for his ' ' artworks.
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It is the sort of economy that is absolutelytrilling.
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Have not some of our strikes—and not the smallest of them—found their origin intrillingincidents which well come within the province of day-to-day working?
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Who is to decide whether it is atrillingdifference of opinion on which people resign from a union?
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It is a sort of economy which is not worth making and it is absolutelytrilling.
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It is not atrillingmeasure.
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One can easily imagine a strike which might cause sometrillinginconvenience but no really deep or general suffering—a strike, for instance, in any of the so-called luxury trades.
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It has a variety of harsh calls including a loud, repeated territorial call, a chattering alarm call and a softertrillingcall.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The towheestrillingsong interspersed with chips is also very different from the brush-finches very high-pitched hissing song.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The male proposes suitable nest sites to the female by rubbing his body over a suitable tree fork, all the whiletrillingcontinuously.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The drake has a low breathy call, and the hen a quiettrillingcoo.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Males make a shorttrillingsound while floating in water after heavy rains, which flood the breeding area, from late winter through to autumn.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An interesting feature of its crystals are the cyclic twins called "trillings".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetrillingsong is often given in flight and also varies geographically.
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