fife vs trill

fife

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

noun
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 

num
  • Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire. 

trill

verb
  • To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. 

  • To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill. 

noun
  • A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff. 

  • A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/. 

  • A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats. 

adj
  • true, respected 

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