trem

Clipping of tremolo.

• IPA^(key): /trɛm/

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.

From English tram.

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trem (plural trems)

1. tram

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɾɛŋ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Hyphenation: trem

trem m (plural trens, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of tren

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

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

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
• Hyphenation: trem

trem m (plural trens)

1. set (a series of, a group of)

   trem de cozinha ― cookware 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

   For synonyms, check Thesaurus:treco

5. ellipsis of trem de aterragem

• (train): locomotiva, vagão

• trem-bala
• trem de aterragem
• trem de lastro
• trem de pouso

• “trem”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “trem”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• trijȇm (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *termъ.

• IPA^(key): /trêːm/

trȇm m inan (Cyrillic spelling тре̑м)

1. porch

• “trem”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025