treble

Meanings

Plural: trebles

Noun

• the pitch range of the highest female voice
• The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• 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; a triple
• Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
• Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• A win in the top league, top national cup and top continental cup in the same season.
• Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”).

Verb

• sing treble
• increase threefold
• To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
• To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
• To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
• To utter in a treble key; to whine.

Adjective Satellite

• having or denoting a high range
  • "the boy still had a fine treble voice"
  • "the treble clef"
• three times as great or many
  • "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"
• having three units or components or elements
  • "a treble row of red beads"
• having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; ; - R.W.Emerson; -Frederick Harrison
  • "every episode has its double and treble meaning"

Adj

• High in pitch.
• Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• Threefold, triple.

Adv

• Trebly; triply.

Synonyms

double, dual, high-pitched, keen, screech, shrill, soprano, strident, tern, ternary, three-fold, threefold, thrice, thricely, treble, trebly, triadic, trinary, trine, triple, triplex, triplicate, triply, two-fold, twofold

Antonyms

deep, third, tripartition, trisect

Anagrams of treble