treble

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Triple: "treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day” ( George Eliot).
2. adj. Music Relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range.
3. adj. High-pitched; shrill.
4. n. Music The highest part, voice, instrument, or range.
5. n. Music A singer or player that performs this part.
6. n. A high, shrill sound or voice.
7. v. To make or become triple.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Threefold; triple.
2. In music, pertaining to the voice or the voice-part called treble or soprano; high in pitch; in harmony, occupying the upper place: as, a treble voice; a treble violin. See II.
3. n. In music: Same as soprano (which see). The term arose from the fact that in early contrapuntal music the chief melody or cantus firmus was given to the tenor (which see), and the voiceparts added above were called respectively the discantus or alto and the treble (that is, ‘third’ part) or soprano.
4. n. A singer with a soprano or treble voice, or an instrument that takes the upper part in concerted music.
5. n. Also triplex.
6. n. In short whist, a game which counts three points to the winners, their adversaries not having scored.
7. To make thrice as much; make threefold; multiply by three; triple.
8. To utter in a high or treble tone; hence, to whine.
9. To become threefold.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Threefold, triple.
2. adj. music Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
3. adj. High in pitch; shrill.
4. n. music The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
5. n. music A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
6. n. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
7. n. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
8. n. darts Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
9. n. sports Three victories, awards etc.
10. v. transitive To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
11. v. intransitive To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
12. v. intransitive To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Threefold; triple.
2. adj. Acute; sharp.
3. adj. Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble.
4. adv. obsolete Trebly; triply.
5. n. (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.
6. v. To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
7. v. obsolete To utter in a treble key; to whine.
8. v. To become threefold.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. three times as great or many
2. v. sing treble
3. adj. having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
4. adj. having three units or components or elements
5. v. increase threefold
6. n. the pitch range of the highest female voice
7. adj. having or denoting a high range