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Treble   /trˈɛbəl/   Listen
Treble

noun
1.
The pitch range of the highest female voice.  Synonym: soprano.
adjective
1.
Having or denoting a high range.  Synonym: soprano.  "Soprano sax" , "The boy still had a fine treble voice" , "The treble clef"
2.
Three times as great or many.  Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, triple.  "A threefold increase"
3.
Having three units or components or elements.  Synonyms: ternary, triple, triplex.  "A treble row of red beads" , "Overcrowding made triple sessions necessary" , "Triple time has three beats per measure" , "Triplex windows"
4.
Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities.  Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, two-fold, twofold.  "The office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence" , "Every episode has its double and treble meaning"
verb
(past & past part. trebled; pres. part. trebling)
1.
Sing treble.
2.
Increase threefold.  Synonym: triple.



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"Treble" Quotes from Famous Books



... go!" boomed Beef, and the football squad, in basso profundo, aided by the Phillyloo Bird's uncertain tenor, and Theophilus' quavery treble, roared in a tremendous vocal explosion that shook ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... resembled in color such milk as had already undergone that operation. She appeared, indeed, to have many symptoms of a deep jaundice in her look; but the strength and firmness of her voice overbalanced them all; the tone of this was a sharp treble at a distance, for I seldom heard it on the same floor, but was usually waked with it in the morning, and entertained with it almost continually through ...
— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

... addition to his old books on ethics and philosophy, to which he has returned with such pleasure, he cultivates his garden. He dotes on his flowers. He is proud of them. He takes prizes at the shows; and the success is still remembered of the treble carnation, streaked red and yellow, which he exhibited as ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... company of wizards, leaving their medicine-pots upon the ground, formed themselves in a treble line, and marching to where the king stood, they saluted him. Then they sang the praises of their god, and in a song that had been prepared, heaped insult upon the God of the white man and upon the messenger who preached Him. To all of this ...
— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard

... manufacture, the patentee should not fail to divide the rights into different classes, granting each party only such rights as they may be interested in. In this way the patentee can quite often double or treble the receipts from ...
— Practical Pointers for Patentees • Franklin Cresee


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