Treble

//ˈtɹɛbəl//

"Treble" in a Sentence (19 examples)

He sings treble.

He can't even tell a treble clef from a bass clef.

Love is like a musical score where you are the treble clef and he is the bass clef. Even if you are out of pitch, distorted or stop playing completely he will continue playing until you form a harmony once again.

So if you look at any other type of building there would be treble or quadruple the amount of material within the structure.

If the drought continues, the price of grain will treble.

He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.

A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.

Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more.

The treble walls and ditches on the land side … diminish the extent of ground covered with houses.

At the surface of the water it's fourteen pounds to the inch, thirty feet down it's double that; sixty, treble; ninety, four times

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Whose deserts might buy him treble

He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday.

There is increasing evidence that cannabis use can act as a risk factor for the development of bipolar as well as psychotic disorders. A recent systematic review by Gibbs and colleagues identified several studies supporting a link between cannabis use and subsequent relapse of manic symptoms. This review also included a meta-analysis of two large prospective cohort studies, which found that cannabis use almost trebled the risk of new-onset subthreshold manic symptoms after adjusting for potential confounding factors.

German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled [title]

I am more ſerious then my cuſtome; you Muſt be ſo too, if heed me: which to do Trebbles thee o're.

He outrageously / (When I accused him) trebled his reply.

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