treble
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɹɛbəl/
treble (not comparable)
- (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
- High in pitch; shrill.
- (rare) Threefold, triple.
- 1837 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. 7, s.v. "Constantinople":
- The treble walls and ditches on the land side [...] diminish the extent of ground covered with houses.
- 1837 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. 7, s.v. "Constantinople":
- (high in pitch) high-pitched, strident
- (triple) see also Thesaurus:triple
treble (not comparable)
Synonyms- thrice, threefold; see also Thesaurus:thrice
treble (plural trebles)
- (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.
- A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
- A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- (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.
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals ↗", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
- As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday.
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals ↗", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
treble (trebles, present participle trebling; past and past participle trebled)
- (transitive) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
- (intransitive) 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.
- He outrageously / (When I accused him) trebled his reply.
- (multiply by three) triple; see also Thesaurus:treble
- (make a high-pitched noise) keen, screech, shrill
- (utter in a treble key) whine
- French: tripler
- German: verdreifachen
- Italian: triplicare
- Spanish: triplicar
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