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trem

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See also: třem

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of tremolo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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trem (plural trems)

  1. (music) The vibrato system on a guitar.
    • 1995, Mike Thompson, Great Tube Amp and Guitar Mods, →ISBN, page 31:
      Remember that the footswitch has to be working and plugged in for the trem and vibrato to work.
    • 2002, Barry Lipman, Guitar Questions: The Novice's Guide to Guitar Repairs, →ISBN, page 89:
      When you pick up the bar to use it, the trem unlocks and becomes a floating bridge again.

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From English tram.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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trem (plural trems)

  1. tram

Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɾɛŋ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋ
  • Hyphenation: trem

Noun

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trem m (plural trens, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of tren

Further reading

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  • trem” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English train, from Middle English, from Old French train (a delay, a drawing out).

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Noun

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trem m (plural trens)

  1. set (a series of, a group of)
    trem de cozinhacookware set
  2. (military) train
  3. (rail transport, Brazil) train (line of connected cars or carriages)
    Synonym: (Portugal) comboio
  4. (slang, Brazil, chiefly Minas Gerais and Goiás) thingy; thingummy
    Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) troço, (Brazil) treco, (Brazil) negócio, (Brazil) bagulho, (Brazil) bagaça, pira, (Portugal) cena
  5. Ellipsis of trem de aterragem.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *termъ.

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Noun

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trȇm m (Cyrillic spelling тре̑м)

  1. porch

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References

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  • trem”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024