(a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.
(adv.) Trebly; triply.
(n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.
(v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
(v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.
(v. i.) To become threefold.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(2) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(3) The rate was doubled by addition of pyruvate or butyrate; it was trebled by addition of propionate, ADP or carbonyl cyanide trichloro-methoxyphenylhydrazone; but it was decreased by addition of antimycin A or glutamine.
(4) "No Spanish team has achieved what we have, to win a treble, and I think everyone will remember this Barça side.
(5) The proportion of Ukip voters coming from the Labour party has trebled from 7% to 23%.
(6) It was good to get back on,” said Griffiths, who then turned his attention to the fourth-round cup tie against the League One side, where Celtic will look to keep their treble dreams alive.
(7) Uber bookings more than treble in a year to nearly $11bn, says report Read more Weeks earlier, a California court had ruled against Uber in deciding that its drivers were employees, and thereby entitled to important legal protections.
(8) I broke my kilometre record, for sure, but that’s not incompatible with my style.” The balance under Luis Enrique bears that out: a treble and a double.
(9) Davey has made it clear there will be no attempt to compete with Classic FM, which, with its touchy feeliness and “smiling down the airwaves”, has almost treble Radio 3’s audience.
(10) If free school meals, for instance, were given to every child in a family now receiving Universal Credit, the numbers entitled would treble, a prohibitive cost that requires Whitehall to find a way to integrate new eligibility criteria with UC.
(11) The two doses used gave equal peak responses, but the duration of the effect was doubled or trebled following the highest dosage.
(12) Labour said it will increase this to 200%, while Clive Betts, the chairman of the House of Commons select committee on communities, has suggested trebling the tax.
(13) That could treble BP's fines under the Clean Water Act .
(14) Despite talk of continued austerity – which will no doubt be a feature of the autumn statement – there's scope to treble the science budget in four years' time.
(15) Although experts are uncertain of the exact causes, the progress follows a period after the 1970s when childhood obesity trebled in the US.
(16) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(17) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
(18) Mourinho and company may now have to settle for the Capital One Cup, Premier League and Champions League treble.
(19) Universities and politicians have worried that the decision to almost treble tuition fees to up to £9,000 next year will deter thousands of students, particularly the poorest, from applying.
(20) The mean radius of the sedimenting particles of rough microsomes was found to be at least doubled or trebled in the presence of Cs(+), which would give a 4- to 9-fold increase in the sedimentation velocity.
Tremble
Definition:
(v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.
(v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.
(v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.
(n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
(2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
(3) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(4) Simulated gait abnormalities involve weakness of 1 or both legs or ataxia and trembling.
(5) Sweating, trembling, inability to concentrate, weakness, hunger and blurred vision were the most frequently reported symptoms.
(6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
(7) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
(8) Therefore, the coat-color remained cream in ee (cream) hamsters showing only trembling.
(9) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
(10) Panic-related chest pain, dyspnea, trembling, and fear were important factors in the development, pervasiveness, and severity of situational fears and anticipatory anxiety.
(11) The force of the blast made the ground tremble in the Chinese border city of Yanji, 130 miles away.
(12) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
(13) These movements, which were often abnormal, included trembling and asynchronism.
(14) Though the route map that Wenger had provided was clear enough, his men held it with trembling hands.
(15) When he speaks, his voice trembles: "If Nato hadn't intervened, none of us would be here," he cries.
(16) The shiverer mutation consists of a deletion of the 3' end of the myelin basic protein gene which completely prevents production of mature mRNA and protein, and results in severe dysmyelination and a trembling behavior.
(17) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
(18) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(19) The following clinical signs such as pronounced muscle fasciculation, trembling, grinding teeth, ataxia, lateral recumbency, bloating, regurgitation, hyperesthesia, mydriasis and convulsions were observed.
(20) Similarly, the prominent 4- and 8-Hz peaks, found in the smoothed EMG power spectra from trembling muscles, were eliminated if the limb was effectively prevented from trembling.