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English
Etymology
Clipping of tremolo.
Pronunciation
Noun
trem (plural trems)
- (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
Etymology
From English tram.
Pronunciation
Noun
trem (plural trems)
- tram
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English train, from Middle English, from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
- Hyphenation: trem
Noun
trem m (plural trens)
- set (a series of, a group of)
- trem de cozinha ― cookware set
- (military) train
- (rail transport, Brazil) train (line of connected cars or carriages)
- Synonym: (Portugal) comboio
- (slang, Brazil, chiefly Minas Gerais and Goiás) thingy; thingummy
- Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) troço, (Brazil) treco, (Brazil) negócio, (Brazil) bagulho, (Brazil) bagaça, pira, (Portugal) cena
- Ellipsis of trem de aterragem.
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Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *termъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
trȇm m (Cyrillic spelling тре̑м)
- porch
Declension
References
- “trem” in Hrvatski jezični portal