Warble

Quick meaning: Warble is a verb meaning (transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.

Meaning

(transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
2. (transitive) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
3. (intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
4. The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
5. A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
6. A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.
7. (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

Example Sentences

touch the warbled string

In the swamp in secluded recesses, / A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.

Her voice more sweet than warbling sound, Tho’ sung by nightingale or lark, Her eyes such lustre dart around, Compar’d to them the sun is dark.

The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such ſtrains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts ſo ſweet a note, [...]

Word Forms

• warbles
• warbling
• warbled

Synonyms for warble

Depending on context, synonyms include trill, quaver, descant, yodel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quaver, descant, yodel, trill, sing, wobulate.

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