What's the difference between sing and trill?

Sing


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
  • (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
  • (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
  • (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
  • (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
  • (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
  • (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
  • (7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
  • (11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
  • (13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
  • (14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
  • (16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
  • (17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
  • (20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.

Trill


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
  • (v. t.) To turn round; to twirl.
  • (v. t.) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
  • (v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
  • (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.
  • (n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
  • (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
  • (2) Professor Monojit Chatterji Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge • Daniel Trilling lays into the EU for failing to act collectively over the migrants issue.
  • (3) The BBC's coverage is up and running and, as the grating MC persona trills, the boys are being called to the baize.
  • (4) It makes me feel good … I would very much like to go,” trilled the Chile international.
  • (5) With the sleeve strapped on, Burkhart trilled his fingers.
  • (6) The major differences were in the formant patterns of vocalic elements; the frequency of occurrence of fricatives, affricates, and trills; histograms of syllable type; and variation in vowel usage.
  • (7) Scott’s next retreat is 20-24 April, ecoyoga.org Kriya me a river, south-east Devon Facebook Twitter Pinterest A light-hearted, instinctive teacher, London-based Tania Brown leads seven, one-hour classes over a weekend at comfy, organic Trill Farm near Lyme Regis.
  • (8) "I had a dream last night where Evra and Suarez came face to face they suddenly took each other in their arms and began to waltz beautifully around the pitch while the crowd hummed the Blue Danube," trills Rick Harris.
  • (9) "Or emotional illiteracy," as my modern daughters sometimes trill.
  • (10) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (11) Results showed that each bird species exhibited superior identification of conspecific final "trill" or "whistle" elements, relative to the alien species.
  • (12) No rush, lads, you whistle an insouciant trill and scratch the old jacksie.
  • (13) Fox had taken the stage right after Leadsom, Britain’s luckiest escape, who had trilled wide-eyed: “We’re selling coffee to Brazil, sparkling wine to France and naan bread to India.” We were even, Andrea smiled excitedly, selling “bottled English countryside air for up to £80 a go”.
  • (14) By the end of the century, he predicted, "the harridans who have been so proud of their spite will be trilling denials at their dinner tables".
  • (15) It is concluded that trills, twitters, and pecking are produced by activation of dopaminergic mechanisms.
  • (16) Three females gave brief trills with alternating fast and slow components.
  • (17) The frequency spectra of the clicks within trills were fully masculinized in females implanted at PM0, PM1, and PM2.
  • (18) Apical trill was regarded as the correct pronunciation of R in 17th-century German, but malarticulations of this difficult sound were widespread.
  • (19) Trill rate varied from 16-180 Hz with a mean of about 100, approximately four times the mean trill rate reported for adult talkers.
  • (20) She called him BAH‑rruck, with a trill of the r's.