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adjective ˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl 1attributive Consisting of three parts; threefold. the fish were caught with large treble hooks Example sentencesExamples - A higher plateau was reached when, within six months of joining Celtic, he had proved hugely influential in the club's only treble success outside of the Jock Stein era.
- Single rooms are subject to a supplement of 130 and are limited to one per treble room.
- Peter James-Robinson also enjoyed a treble success, winning gold in the snooker and silver medals in the slalom and bowls.
- The win in the club competition was part of a treble celebration for the Southsiders as Tereasa Linsbod collected the national prize for Sheep stock-judging.
- Not only did he put those rumours to rest with his outstanding contribution to United's treble triumph two years later, Sheringham has even managed to impress since returning to Spurs last summer.
- If insiders sold stock acting on proprietary knowledge that the company was failing, there are existing laws to deal with it that can require treble damages and incarceration.
- But that treble disappointment also once again stoked the fires which have fuelled his passion for the game for more than half a century, and he has already dug in for the long haul.
- Sunday's eagerly awaited all parish final between Borris in Ossory and Kilcotton will provide the centrepiece of the treble header at O'Moore Park and promises to be a thrilling affair.
- That record includes three historic treble successes - and a unique double achieved this year by Lancaster.
- It was a pity that so few attended for the first part of the treble header as both teams served up a thriller laced with the finest of hurling skills and players with real potential for the future.
- The Export Trading Act allows the Secretary of Commerce to issue a Certificate of Review to a trading entity that protects it from criminal liability and treble damages under state and federal antitrust laws.
- After just two matches of the new season, the points against tally has already reached treble figures.
- The company said it also is seeking treble damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, bringing its total claim to more than $1.25 bn.
- Few students are in a position to have superstars like Kate Moss model their creations for their graduation show and attract a treble A-list audience to the occasion.
- No-one hit treble figures, yet Lancashire got there.
- It came out on top at the strongly contested industry awards for engineering excellence - making it a record treble success.
- And while our dinner was perfectly decent, it wasn't ever a meal that should have been thinking about breaking into treble figures.
- The treble chorus of bonjours came from the friendly farmer's friendly wife and his two teenage daughters, all of them creasing themselves.
- That one bonus point adds to the two he collects for being deemed the Knights' second-best player on the day by the Evening Press, and his treble haul takes him back to joint-top of the standings alongside Scott Rhodes.
- The treble winners also won a host of individual prizes from guest speaker Fred Trueman, the Yorkshire and England legend, to confirm their status as the league's outstanding side.
Synonyms high, high-frequency, soprano, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating - 1.1 Multiplied or occurring three times.
she turned back to make a double and treble check Example sentencesExamples - ‘The students come in and have a treble vodka with a dash of Corky's and a dash of coke, for £3.50,’ said Arthur.
- There is also another parallel stream of procedure relating to proceedings brought privately, for example, proceedings to recover multiple damages, treble damages, perhaps.
- Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
- 1.2 (of a number) occurring three times in succession.
call Kate on 0500 403 treble zero
predeterminerˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl Three times as much or as many. the tip was at least treble what she would normally have given Example sentencesExamples - Becoming a parent can be a daunting experience, but she and her husband had treble the shock when they learned they were expecting triplets.
- For working on a public holiday, they will receive treble their usual pay.
- Betfred is giving away a free £10 Lucky 15 on the St Leger meeting at Doncaster on Saturday and will pay treble the odds for only one winner.
- It has offered security guards treble time but they have still got insufficient numbers.
- She was asked to pay double the next week and if she still didn't have the money she was asked to pay treble the following week and all the time the interest was mounting.
- The share of one-room dwellings is urban areas is treble the share in rural areas.
noun ˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl 1British Three sporting victories or championships in the same season, event, etc. the victory completed a treble for the horse's trainer Example sentencesExamples - Johnson could well have a treble on the card as he looks to have an outstanding chance in the concluding Weatherbys Bank Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race with Lennon.
- A very good crowd, a treble for local trainer Willie Mullins and a satisfactory run by old Danoli were the highlights on a day which also saw a fine performance from debutante Get It Done in the concluding bumper.
- Swinton coach Phil Veivers was delighted with his side's performance as they completed a memorable treble of victories against Whitehaven.
- With the exception of AC Milan, all those clubs are also chasing their domestic league titles with Leverkusen still in the hunt for a mouth-watering treble including the German Cup.
- In contrast, Arsenal are steaming towards a treble as they bid to become the first team to go through a Premiership season unbeaten.
2Darts
A hit on the narrow ring enclosed by the two middle circles of a dartboard, scoring treble. Example sentencesExamples - Dart and Target was played on a board of numbered coloured circles, on which doubles and trebles did not feature, the highest score being the bullseye and lowest at the edge.
- Shanghai is the given name for hitting a single, double and treble of the same score and this game is a step up from round the clock.
- Indeed trebles would not appear on a dartboard until well after the Great War.
- During a visit to England in 1977, Ali played an exhibition match at a pub in the North-east, against Welsh champion Alan Evans, who was only allowed to score on trebles, to keep the match competitive.
- What I want to say is that there is a lot of pressure on preparing singles, and many players fail exactly here, while they hit doubles or trebles nicely.
3British A type of bet in which three selections are made, with any winnings from the first being transferred to the second and then (if successful) to the third. Example sentencesExamples - Off-course layers will always keep hot-pots, his in particular, tight because of doubles and trebles and other multiple bets.
- I do not know what the second and third legs of the treble are likely to be, but I do pose the question: why is the Government involved in racing at all?
- A trebles bet means three must win and a roll-up means they all have to win.
4A thing that is three times as large as usual or is made up of three standard units or things. - 4.1 (in showjumping) a fence consisting of three elements.
the mare failed to tuck her hind feet up quite high enough at the last bar of the treble - 4.2 A crochet stitch made with three loops of wool on the hook at a time.
- 4.3 A drink of spirits of three times the standard measure.
pronounˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl A number or amount which is three times as large as a contrasting or usual number or amount. by paying treble, he had a double room to himself
verb ˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl Make or become three times as large or numerous. with object rents were doubled and probably trebled no object his salary has trebled in a couple of years Example sentencesExamples - And he is probably calculating his salary will double or treble at a stroke.
- The number of people aged 80 years and over is forecast to more than treble from 98,000 in 2001, to about 320,000 in 2036.
- Department for Transport forecasts suggest it will double in 20 years and treble in 30.
- By now, some of the original residents of the distillery, those who bought their apartments on that first weekend, have witnessed their investment treble in value.
- Tax breaks have meant a few hundred more houses and the population of the town more than trebles in the summer months.
- The market for organic food in Ireland is expected to more than treble over the next four years.
- Half a billion people already use them, a figure expected to more than treble in five years.
- Recycling is at its highest ever level, with some authorities in Yorkshire doubling and even trebling their rates in a year.
- But without an effective rural medical network, fighting rural epidemics would probably need double or treble the effort.
- Economies were not the only things that boomed in the Gulf: demography did too, and many of the Gulf states doubled and even trebled their populations, leaving less openings for foreigners to fill.
- In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.
- Those in work have seen their salaries trebled or quadrupled and unemployment is falling.
- Electricity costs will probably treble, according to that representative.
- He was only persuaded into staying put last summer, amid offers from abroad to treble his salary, by the promise that he could go home after this season for a nominal fee.
- By the time it hits the city shelves, imported fruit more than trebles in price.
- What happens in open water, or in another bay where there is little or no nutrient by comparison, is that the size will have to be doubled, trebled, or quadrupled sometimes, to achieve the same carrying capacity.
- The working day should be of six hours at most, and annual holidays doubled or trebled.
- The number of successful independent television companies in Scotland must more than treble if the industry is to flourish, according to Stuart Cosgrove, head of nations and regions at Channel 4.
- We'll find that hard enough to explain to Baron Tellian without doubling or trebling the butcher's bill.
- In Botswana, with a relatively wealthy economy due to income from diamond mining, it is estimated that health spending will more than treble over the next 10 years.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin triplus (see triple). nounˈtrɛb(ə)lˈtrɛbəl 1A high-pitched voice, especially a boy's singing voice. the boy replied in a shrill treble as modifier the children's treble voices Example sentencesExamples - The eerie sound of the air passing through wing feathers differs with each bird, from a low treble, to a high whistle, to one sirenlike whine.
- 1.1 A boy (or girl) with a high-pitched singing voice.
we had sung together as trebles in the choir Example sentencesExamples - The choir needs six more trebles aged seven to 14, a couple of basses and tenors, and perhaps an alto or two.
- The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir.
- They sing with relish, and understanding, and only the busy part-writing towards the end of Haydn's Te Deum appears ready to swallow the trebles.
- So he would seem to be one of that unfortunate breed of outstanding trebles who develop into merely adequate adult singers.
- The choir now has sixteen boy trebles and thirteen men (on all the other parts), some of whom are professional singers and some of whom are students at Christ Church.
- Sustained lines for the soprano, joined by a boy treble kept from his bed for five minutes' worth of work, provide vocal variety.
- Five years earlier, in 1735 as a treble, he had sung the role of Oberto in Alcina.
- The trebles float the highest notes with admirable assurance and no suspicion of strain.
- This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
- He started out as a boy treble and later, after his voice broke, joined Ontario's provincial youth choir.
- The sound is an ‘English’ sound, strongly influenced by the voices of boy trebles, though it sounds to me more like women singing with a straight tone.
- When I was eight years old I started at the Choir School at Canterbury Cathedral and a year or so later joined the cathedral choir as a treble.
- We've always had a choir made up of boy and girl trebles, together with male altos, tenors and basses.
- Other performers included boy trebles and members of St Thomas's Church choir, members of Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society and Studio Theatre.
- Tavener cautions us in the liner notes not to expect anything ‘dramatic in the Western sense’, and so the treble repeats his phrase to launch all Paul's verses.
- His wife plays the flute and the recorder and his son sings as a treble.
- 1.2 A part written for a high voice or an instrument of a high pitch.
we have studied the treatment of melodic lines in treble and bass separately Example sentencesExamples - One of the album's principle plagues is the near total lack of low-end - - all that unsupported treble gets tiresome after a while.
- This sequence had me taut with apprehension, and I jumped at the sudden dominance of bass and screeching treble.
- I think it probably just means that you, like me, follow the treble.
- The piece requires the player to shift the focus of the melody line from the treble to the bass.
- The harsh treble of the theme music is not particularly pleasant, although advancing a chapter allows you to skip straight to the action and avoid that problem altogether.
- The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
- For them, the call of each of these birds is distinct, with its own melody, structure, pitch, base and treble.
- Top 40 hits sounded excellent too, with thumping bass notes and nice trebles.
- You lose the crispness of the trebles and the rich thrum of the bass.
- Believe me when I say this, there's not much treble on this album.
2as modifier Denoting a relatively high-pitched member of a family of similar instruments. Example sentencesExamples - The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
- The purchase of a full chest of instruments (usually two each of trebles, tenors, and basses) would encourage the training of family members to play them.
- The prototype treble was soon replaced with two new generation lattice trebles made by the late Eugene Phillip and I made a lattice baritone in 1996, and a lattice bass in 2001.
- There are three main sizes of modern oboe: the normal treble, the alto oboe d' amore, and the tenor cor anglais or English horn.
- 2.1 The smallest and highest-pitched bell of a ring or set.
Example sentencesExamples - The ring of bells at St Bene't's was completed in 1663 when the treble bell of the six was hung.
- By 2004 enough money had been raised to cast two new treble bells and complete the ring of ten.
- Thus the final instalment in the story was the casting and installing of the two treble bells of ten.
- And most crucially, the treble bells could be replaced with new ones better matched to the bass bells.
- Twenty mid-range bells have been replaced, and twenty one smaller treble bells have been added.
3mass noun The high-frequency output of a radio, or audio system, corresponding to the treble in music. Example sentencesExamples - It's all treble and no bass, tragic potential utterly untapped.
- Vanguard's recording preserves most of the piano's dynamic range, betrayed only by some fuzziness in the treble.
- Apart from good sound, you will find controls for bass, treble and sound balance that is not common in PDAs.
- I know that I usually find my feet tapping to the treble.
- The two satellite speakers sit near by monitor and allow me to further adjust bass and treble at a push of a button.
- For example, if there is too much bass, decrease the bass and/or increase the treble.
- The bass is more present than before, and the occasional stridency of the treble has been tamed without an apparent loss of musical information.
- The bass is the comforting smoothness, and the treble is the piercing clarity.
- The levels are balanced, and there is a nice mix of treble and bass.
- Bass response is minimal and most of the film languishes in the midrange and treble, but overall, it is not an unpleasant presentation.
- To the right, the Presence control adds treble by reducing the amount of high frequencies in the feedback loop.
- Instead, it sounds like some of the upper range treble was simple repeated out of the rear channels - so you get a slight echo off Marley's voice and the cymbals.
- Likewise, audio is clean and remarkably dynamic; even the extensive use of treble in the bird song doesn't reveal any distortion or buzz.
- The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
- The most basic signal processing is already in the head-end unit and can take the form of tone controls like bass and treble, and other functions to balance the sound from front to back or side to side.
- The 5.1 track is a step up, with bright trebles and excellent distribution to the rear channels.
- One wall is made up of cabinets containing hundreds of CDs, and a stereo on which the bass and treble are permanently turned up full.
- The treble was champagne-fuelled voices and the bass was rolling out of huge speakers around the edge of a low-ceilinged room with two or three hundred people in it.
- There are no advanced volume settings such as treble or bass.
- Unfortunately, there are no separate treble controls on the satellites or the woofer, so you will have to deal with the level of treble within software, if allowed.
Origin Late Middle English: from treble1, because it was the highest part in a three-part contrapuntal composition. adjectiveˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl 1attributive Consisting of three parts; threefold. the fish were caught with large treble hooks dragged through the water Example sentencesExamples - Sunday's eagerly awaited all parish final between Borris in Ossory and Kilcotton will provide the centrepiece of the treble header at O'Moore Park and promises to be a thrilling affair.
- The treble chorus of bonjours came from the friendly farmer's friendly wife and his two teenage daughters, all of them creasing themselves.
- The company said it also is seeking treble damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, bringing its total claim to more than $1.25 bn.
- Few students are in a position to have superstars like Kate Moss model their creations for their graduation show and attract a treble A-list audience to the occasion.
- It came out on top at the strongly contested industry awards for engineering excellence - making it a record treble success.
- The win in the club competition was part of a treble celebration for the Southsiders as Tereasa Linsbod collected the national prize for Sheep stock-judging.
- No-one hit treble figures, yet Lancashire got there.
- That record includes three historic treble successes - and a unique double achieved this year by Lancaster.
- That one bonus point adds to the two he collects for being deemed the Knights' second-best player on the day by the Evening Press, and his treble haul takes him back to joint-top of the standings alongside Scott Rhodes.
- But that treble disappointment also once again stoked the fires which have fuelled his passion for the game for more than half a century, and he has already dug in for the long haul.
- Single rooms are subject to a supplement of 130 and are limited to one per treble room.
- Peter James-Robinson also enjoyed a treble success, winning gold in the snooker and silver medals in the slalom and bowls.
- Not only did he put those rumours to rest with his outstanding contribution to United's treble triumph two years later, Sheringham has even managed to impress since returning to Spurs last summer.
- The Export Trading Act allows the Secretary of Commerce to issue a Certificate of Review to a trading entity that protects it from criminal liability and treble damages under state and federal antitrust laws.
- After just two matches of the new season, the points against tally has already reached treble figures.
- If insiders sold stock acting on proprietary knowledge that the company was failing, there are existing laws to deal with it that can require treble damages and incarceration.
- A higher plateau was reached when, within six months of joining Celtic, he had proved hugely influential in the club's only treble success outside of the Jock Stein era.
- The treble winners also won a host of individual prizes from guest speaker Fred Trueman, the Yorkshire and England legend, to confirm their status as the league's outstanding side.
- It was a pity that so few attended for the first part of the treble header as both teams served up a thriller laced with the finest of hurling skills and players with real potential for the future.
- And while our dinner was perfectly decent, it wasn't ever a meal that should have been thinking about breaking into treble figures.
Synonyms high, high-frequency, soprano, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating - 1.1 Multiplied or occurring three times.
she turned back to make a double and treble check Example sentencesExamples - ‘The students come in and have a treble vodka with a dash of Corky's and a dash of coke, for £3.50,’ said Arthur.
- There is also another parallel stream of procedure relating to proceedings brought privately, for example, proceedings to recover multiple damages, treble damages, perhaps.
- Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
predeterminerˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl Three times as much or as many. the tip was at least treble what she would normally have given Example sentencesExamples - Becoming a parent can be a daunting experience, but she and her husband had treble the shock when they learned they were expecting triplets.
- It has offered security guards treble time but they have still got insufficient numbers.
- Betfred is giving away a free £10 Lucky 15 on the St Leger meeting at Doncaster on Saturday and will pay treble the odds for only one winner.
- She was asked to pay double the next week and if she still didn't have the money she was asked to pay treble the following week and all the time the interest was mounting.
- For working on a public holiday, they will receive treble their usual pay.
- The share of one-room dwellings is urban areas is treble the share in rural areas.
nounˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl 1A thing that is three times as large as usual or is made up of three standard units or things. - 1.1 (in show jumping) a fence consisting of three elements.
- 1.2 A crochet stitch made with three loops of wool on the hook at a time.
- 1.3 A drink of liquor of three times the standard measure.
pronounˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl A number or amount which is three times as large as a contrasting or usual number or amount. by virtue of having paid treble, he had a double room to himself
verbˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl Make or become three times as large or numerous. with object rents were doubled and probably trebled no object his salary has trebled in a couple of years Example sentencesExamples - The market for organic food in Ireland is expected to more than treble over the next four years.
- Tax breaks have meant a few hundred more houses and the population of the town more than trebles in the summer months.
- The number of people aged 80 years and over is forecast to more than treble from 98,000 in 2001, to about 320,000 in 2036.
- And he is probably calculating his salary will double or treble at a stroke.
- Those in work have seen their salaries trebled or quadrupled and unemployment is falling.
- He was only persuaded into staying put last summer, amid offers from abroad to treble his salary, by the promise that he could go home after this season for a nominal fee.
- Department for Transport forecasts suggest it will double in 20 years and treble in 30.
- But without an effective rural medical network, fighting rural epidemics would probably need double or treble the effort.
- We'll find that hard enough to explain to Baron Tellian without doubling or trebling the butcher's bill.
- The number of successful independent television companies in Scotland must more than treble if the industry is to flourish, according to Stuart Cosgrove, head of nations and regions at Channel 4.
- The working day should be of six hours at most, and annual holidays doubled or trebled.
- By the time it hits the city shelves, imported fruit more than trebles in price.
- By now, some of the original residents of the distillery, those who bought their apartments on that first weekend, have witnessed their investment treble in value.
- In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.
- In Botswana, with a relatively wealthy economy due to income from diamond mining, it is estimated that health spending will more than treble over the next 10 years.
- Economies were not the only things that boomed in the Gulf: demography did too, and many of the Gulf states doubled and even trebled their populations, leaving less openings for foreigners to fill.
- Half a billion people already use them, a figure expected to more than treble in five years.
- Electricity costs will probably treble, according to that representative.
- What happens in open water, or in another bay where there is little or no nutrient by comparison, is that the size will have to be doubled, trebled, or quadrupled sometimes, to achieve the same carrying capacity.
- Recycling is at its highest ever level, with some authorities in Yorkshire doubling and even trebling their rates in a year.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin triplus (see triple). nounˈtrɛbəlˈtrebəl 1A high-pitched voice, especially a boy's singing voice. Example sentencesExamples - The eerie sound of the air passing through wing feathers differs with each bird, from a low treble, to a high whistle, to one sirenlike whine.
- 1.1 A boy or girl with a treble voice.
Example sentencesExamples - The choir needs six more trebles aged seven to 14, a couple of basses and tenors, and perhaps an alto or two.
- We've always had a choir made up of boy and girl trebles, together with male altos, tenors and basses.
- Five years earlier, in 1735 as a treble, he had sung the role of Oberto in Alcina.
- He started out as a boy treble and later, after his voice broke, joined Ontario's provincial youth choir.
- When I was eight years old I started at the Choir School at Canterbury Cathedral and a year or so later joined the cathedral choir as a treble.
- They sing with relish, and understanding, and only the busy part-writing towards the end of Haydn's Te Deum appears ready to swallow the trebles.
- The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir.
- Other performers included boy trebles and members of St Thomas's Church choir, members of Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society and Studio Theatre.
- The trebles float the highest notes with admirable assurance and no suspicion of strain.
- Sustained lines for the soprano, joined by a boy treble kept from his bed for five minutes' worth of work, provide vocal variety.
- So he would seem to be one of that unfortunate breed of outstanding trebles who develop into merely adequate adult singers.
- This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
- Tavener cautions us in the liner notes not to expect anything ‘dramatic in the Western sense’, and so the treble repeats his phrase to launch all Paul's verses.
- The choir now has sixteen boy trebles and thirteen men (on all the other parts), some of whom are professional singers and some of whom are students at Christ Church.
- His wife plays the flute and the recorder and his son sings as a treble.
- The sound is an ‘English’ sound, strongly influenced by the voices of boy trebles, though it sounds to me more like women singing with a straight tone.
- 1.2 A part written for a high voice or an instrument of a high pitch.
Example sentencesExamples - The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
- The piece requires the player to shift the focus of the melody line from the treble to the bass.
- You lose the crispness of the trebles and the rich thrum of the bass.
- One of the album's principle plagues is the near total lack of low-end - - all that unsupported treble gets tiresome after a while.
- For them, the call of each of these birds is distinct, with its own melody, structure, pitch, base and treble.
- Top 40 hits sounded excellent too, with thumping bass notes and nice trebles.
- The harsh treble of the theme music is not particularly pleasant, although advancing a chapter allows you to skip straight to the action and avoid that problem altogether.
- I think it probably just means that you, like me, follow the treble.
- This sequence had me taut with apprehension, and I jumped at the sudden dominance of bass and screeching treble.
- Believe me when I say this, there's not much treble on this album.
- 1.3as modifier Denoting a relatively high-pitched member of a family of similar instruments.
Example sentencesExamples - The purchase of a full chest of instruments (usually two each of trebles, tenors, and basses) would encourage the training of family members to play them.
- The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
- There are three main sizes of modern oboe: the normal treble, the alto oboe d' amore, and the tenor cor anglais or English horn.
- The prototype treble was soon replaced with two new generation lattice trebles made by the late Eugene Phillip and I made a lattice baritone in 1996, and a lattice bass in 2001.
- 1.4 The smallest and highest-pitched bell of a set.
Example sentencesExamples - And most crucially, the treble bells could be replaced with new ones better matched to the bass bells.
- The ring of bells at St Bene't's was completed in 1663 when the treble bell of the six was hung.
- By 2004 enough money had been raised to cast two new treble bells and complete the ring of ten.
- Twenty mid-range bells have been replaced, and twenty one smaller treble bells have been added.
- Thus the final instalment in the story was the casting and installing of the two treble bells of ten.
- 1.5 The high-frequency output of an audio system or radio, corresponding to the treble in music.
Example sentencesExamples - It's all treble and no bass, tragic potential utterly untapped.
- The bass is more present than before, and the occasional stridency of the treble has been tamed without an apparent loss of musical information.
- Vanguard's recording preserves most of the piano's dynamic range, betrayed only by some fuzziness in the treble.
- To the right, the Presence control adds treble by reducing the amount of high frequencies in the feedback loop.
- I know that I usually find my feet tapping to the treble.
- Unfortunately, there are no separate treble controls on the satellites or the woofer, so you will have to deal with the level of treble within software, if allowed.
- For example, if there is too much bass, decrease the bass and/or increase the treble.
- The two satellite speakers sit near by monitor and allow me to further adjust bass and treble at a push of a button.
- Likewise, audio is clean and remarkably dynamic; even the extensive use of treble in the bird song doesn't reveal any distortion or buzz.
- The bass is the comforting smoothness, and the treble is the piercing clarity.
- Bass response is minimal and most of the film languishes in the midrange and treble, but overall, it is not an unpleasant presentation.
- One wall is made up of cabinets containing hundreds of CDs, and a stereo on which the bass and treble are permanently turned up full.
- The most basic signal processing is already in the head-end unit and can take the form of tone controls like bass and treble, and other functions to balance the sound from front to back or side to side.
- The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
- Apart from good sound, you will find controls for bass, treble and sound balance that is not common in PDAs.
- Instead, it sounds like some of the upper range treble was simple repeated out of the rear channels - so you get a slight echo off Marley's voice and the cymbals.
- The levels are balanced, and there is a nice mix of treble and bass.
- The 5.1 track is a step up, with bright trebles and excellent distribution to the rear channels.
- The treble was champagne-fuelled voices and the bass was rolling out of huge speakers around the edge of a low-ceilinged room with two or three hundred people in it.
- There are no advanced volume settings such as treble or bass.
Origin Late Middle English: from treble, because it was the highest part in a three-part contrapuntal composition. |