warble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɔːbl̩/    美 /ˈwɔɹbl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations. countable,uncountable
    — The blackbirds and robins and and^([sic]) tits and finches shout at each other, chups and warbles and chirrups that, loosely translated, mean “Fancy a shag?”, “Get OFF my land” or “I’ve got a great big tonker.”
  2. A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
  3. In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. countable,uncountable
  4. A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.
动词 v.
  1. To modulate a tone's frequency. transitive
  2. To sing like a bird, especially with trills. transitive
    — Her voice more sweet than warbling sound, Tho’ sung by nightingale or lark, Her eyes such lustre dart around, Compar’d to them the sun is dark.
  3. To cause to quaver or vibrate. transitive
    — touch the warbled string
  4. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. intransitive
    — The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such ſtrains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts ſo ſweet a note, [...]

词形变化

warbles present,singular,third-person warbling participle,present warbled participle,past warbled past warbles plural warbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
warble fly warblefly warbler warbly

词源

词源 1
Perhaps onomatopoeic.
词源 2
From Middle English werble (at least for the noun), from Frankish *werbel (mole cricket), cognate to Walloon waerbea.
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