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单词 warble
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
war•ble1 /ˈwɔrbəl/USA pronunciation   v., -bled, -bling, n. 
v. 
  1. Music and Danceto sing or whistle with trills or melodies that vary quickly: [no object]to warble happily.[+ object]to warble a tune.

n. [countable]
  1. Music and Dancea warbled song or trill.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
war•ble1  (wôrbəl),USA pronunciation v., -bled, -bling, n. 
v.i. 
  1. Music and Danceto sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments:The canary warbled most of the day.
  2. to yodel.
  3. (of electronic equipment) to produce a continuous sound varying regularly in pitch and frequency.

v.t. 
  1. Music and Danceto sing (an aria or other selection) with trills, quavers, or melodious turns.
  2. to express or celebrate in or as if in song;
    carol.

n. 
  1. Music and Dancea warbled song or succession of melodic trills, quavers, etc.
  2. the act of warbling.
  • Gmc; compare Old High German werbel something that turns, equivalent. to werb- (cognate with Old English hweorf- in hweorfan to turn) + -el noun, nominal suffix
  • Old North French
  • Middle English werble a tune 1300–50

war•ble2  (wôrbəl),USA pronunciation n. [Vet. Pathol.]
  1. Veterinary Diseasesa small, hard tumor on a horse's back, produced by the galling of the saddle.
  2. Veterinary Diseasesa lump in the skin of an animal's back, containing the larva of a warble fly.
  • 1575–85; origin, originally uncertain; compare obsolete Swedish varbulde boil
warbled, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
warble /ˈwɔːbəl/ vb
  1. to sing (words, songs, etc) with trills, runs, and other embellishments
  2. (transitive) to utter in a song
n
  1. the act or an instance of warbling
Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French werbler from Germanic; compare Frankish hwirbilōn (unattested), Old High German wirbil whirlwind; see whirl
warble /ˈwɔːbəl/ n
  1. a small lumpy abscess under the skin of cattle caused by infestation with larvae of the warble fly
  2. a hard tumorous lump of tissue on a horse's back, caused by prolonged friction of a saddle
Etymology: 16th Century: of uncertain origin
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