Plural of trill

Forms of trill

Trills in a sentence

• The bird's song was full of trills and flutters.From the entry flutter
• "Physical constraints of the human body are easy to see: there are no linguo-nasal trills, for example."1984, William E. Rutherford, Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition: Containing the […]. From the entry linguo-nasal
• She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times. From the entry tapping
• “Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.2007 May 7, Vivien Schweitzer, “Players With No Conductor and, Increasingly, With No Fear”, in New York Times. From the entry pizzicato
• Rhotics can be realized as flaps, taps, trills (uvular, coronal or bilabial), or as assibilated or fricative variants.1997, Eulàlia Bonet, Joan Mascarò, “On the representation of contrasting rhotics”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front…. From the entry rhotic

Meaning of trill

1. noun A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
2. noun A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
3. noun A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

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Questions about the plural of trill

What is the plural of trill?

The plural of trill is trills.

Is trill countable?

Trill is a countable noun.