treble
IPA: trˈɛbʌɫ
noun
- (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
- (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
- The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
- Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
- (dated) A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
- (dated) A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple
- (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
- (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
- Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”) [A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.]
verb
- (transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
- (intransitive, dated) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
- (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
- (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.
adjective
- High in pitch.
- (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
- (dated) Threefold, triple.
adverb
- (dated) Trebly; triply.
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Examples of "treble" in Sentences
- The booklet comes in bass and treble clef.
- Treble is the sound as in opposite of bass.
- His treble were the only goals of the game.
- In the scoring area, the word treble is wrong.
- The treble flute is a member of the flute family.
- The bass trumpet is usually notated in the treble clef.
- Notes written in the treble clef are played with the hands.
- The population as much as trebles in the summer holiday season.
- Another series of glissandos in the treble voice ushers in a brief cadenza.
- One melody is written in the treble clef and the other is in the bass clef.