Treble
['treb(ə)l] or ['trɛbl]
Definition
(verb.) sing treble.
(adj.) three times as great or many; 'a claim for treble (or triple) damages'; 'a threefold increase' .
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Threefold; triple.
(a.) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Triple, threefold.
v. a. Triple, make threefold.
n. (Music.) Highest part (for a woman's voice).
Editor: Vince
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sharp, acute, highest
ANT:Base, low, deepest
Editor: Samantha
Definition
adj. triple: threefold: (mus.) denoting the treble that plays or sings the treble.—n. the highest of the four principal parts in the musical scale.—v.t. to make three times as much.—v.i. to become threefold:—pa.p. treb′led (-ld).—adj. Treb′le-dā′ted living three times as long as man.—n. Treb′leness.—p.adj. Treb′le-sin′ewed (Shak.) having threefold sinews very strong.—adv. Treb′ly.
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Examples
- As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Affery, my woman, move an inch, or speak a word in your foolishness, and I'll treble your dose! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You might treble that, and say a hundred and fifty, yet not be far from the truth. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mademoiselle, lisped the treble voice, I am to give you that. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Gets treble the business of any man in court--engaged in every case. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Good round sum--a man like you could treble it in no time--great deal to be done with fifty pounds, my dear Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pitch of pianos, from the lowest bass note to the very highest treble, varies from 27 to about 3500 vibrations per second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Our debts have been paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The dark deformity of the expression which had just left her face lowered on it once more, with doubled and trebled intensity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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