verb to make music with your voice ○ Please sing another song. ○ She was singing as she worked. ○ He always sings in the bath. ○ She sang a funny song about elephants. ○ The birds were singing in the garden.
sing
v. i. [imp. Sung or Sang ; p. p. Sung; p. pr. & vb. n. Singing.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. voice. Cf. Singe, Song.]
1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. “The noise of them that sing do I hear.” Ex. xxxii. 18.
2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. “On every bough the briddes heard I sing.” Chaucer. “Singing birds, in silver cages hung.” Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as the air sings in passing through a crevice. “O’er his head the flying spear
Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.” Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. “Bid her … sing
Of human hope by cross event destroyed.” Prior.
5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.] “They should sing if thet they were bent.” Chaucer.
1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. “The noise of them that sing do I hear.” Ex. xxxii. 18.
2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. “On every bough the briddes heard I sing.” Chaucer. “Singing birds, in silver cages hung.” Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as the air sings in passing through a crevice. “O’er his head the flying spear
Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.” Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. “Bid her … sing
Of human hope by cross event destroyed.” Prior.
5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.] “They should sing if thet they were bent.” Chaucer.
sing
v. t. 1. To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice. “And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.” Rev. xv. 3. “And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.” Keble.
2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton. “Arms and the man I sing.” Dryden. “The last, the happiest British king,
Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.” Addison.
3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as to sing a child to sleep.
4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing. “I heard them singing home the bride.” Longfellow.
2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton. “Arms and the man I sing.” Dryden. “The last, the happiest British king,
Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.” Addison.
3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as to sing a child to sleep.
4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing. “I heard them singing home the bride.” Longfellow.
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