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語源 1

From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.

形容詞

treble (not comparable)

1. High in pitch.

   Synonyms: high-pitched, strident

   Antonym: bass

   • 1957, Salinger, J[erome] D[avid], “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:

     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.

2. (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
3. (dated) Threefold, triple.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:triple

   • 1697, Dryden, John, chapter 6, in The Aeneid by Virgil:

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

   • 1837 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. 7, s.v. "Constantinople":

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

関連する語

• treble clef
• treble-heading
• treble staff

副詞

treble (not comparable)

1. (dated) Trebly; triply.

   Synonyms: thrice, threefold; see also Thesaurus:thrice

   • 1623 (first performance)​, John Fletcher; William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Whose deserts might buy him treble

名詞

treble (複数形 trebles)

1. (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
   • 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:

     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.

   • 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:

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

   • 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:

     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.

2. (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
3. The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
4. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
5. (dated) A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
6. (dated) A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple
7. (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
8. (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     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.

動詞

treble (三人称単数 現在形 trebles, 現在分詞 trebling, 過去形および過去分詞形 trebled)

1. (transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.

   Synonyms: triple; see also Thesaurus:treble

   • 2022 January 11, Kate Connolly, “German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

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

2. (intransitive, dated) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
3. (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.

   Synonyms: keen, screech, shrill

4. (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.
   • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Hermes

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