musical note vs trill

trill vs musical note

musical note and trill both are nouns.

musical note is not a verb while trill is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
musical note	Yes	No	No	No
trill	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, trill is a hyponym of musical note; that is, trill is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than musical note:

musical note: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
trill: a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

Other hyponyms of musical note include keynote, tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading tone, subtonic, pedal, pedal point, shake, middle C, chord, passing note, passing tone, semibreve, whole note, half note, minim, crotchet, quarter note, eighth note, quaver, semiquaver, sixteenth note, demisemiquaver, thirty-second note, hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note, acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note, blue note, monotone.

musical note (noun)	trill (noun)
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound	a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
	the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula

musical note (verb)	trill (verb)
	sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
	pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'

Difference between musical note and trill

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