trilling
/tɹˈɪlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The production of a trill sound.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way."
- "During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer."
- "Diametrically opposed rays of these stellate groups are of the same optical orientation and the twins are, therefore, trillings ( fig. 29 )."
- "Chrysoberyl is orthorhombic in symmetry. Like many orthorhombic minerals, it readily forms an intergrowth with two other individual crystals to make trillings with six sides or, at least, V-shaped twins."
- "In the embryonic stage, pseudohexagonal trillings resemble those of the post-embryonic stage (Figure 2D,E), and are 1 to 3 μm in diameter."
- "Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings."