singing


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sing

 (sĭng)
v. sang (săng) or sung (sŭng), sung, sing·ing, sings
v.intr.
1. Music
a. To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.
b. To vocalize songs or selections.
c. To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.
d. To produce sounds when played: made the violin sing.
2.
a. To make melodious sounds: birds singing outside the window.
b. To give or have the effect of melody; lilt.
3. To make a high whining, humming, or whistling sound.
4. To be filled with a buzzing or ringing sound.
5.
a. To proclaim or extol something in verse.
b. To write poetry.
6. Slang To give information or evidence against someone.
v.tr.
1. Music
a. To produce the musical sound of: sang a love song.
b. To utter with musical inflections: She sang the message.
c. To bring to a specified state by singing: sang the baby to sleep.
2. To intone or chant (parts of the Mass, for example).
3. To proclaim or extol, especially in verse: sang his praises.
n. Music
A gathering of people for group singing.
Phrasal Verb:
sing out
To call out loudly.

[Middle English singen, from Old English singan; see sengwh- in Indo-European roots.]

sing′a·ble adj.
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Singing

 

See Also: MUSIC

  1. As anxious about his voice as a Don Juan about his sexual equipment: a roughness was the equivalent of a dose of clap, laryngitis of impotence —Francis King

    See Also: ANXIETY

  2. Carry a tune as well as a mouse carries an elephant —Anon
  3. His care for his voice was like that of a parent for a sickly and therefore abnormally cherished child —Francis King
  4. Melody … sweetened the air like raindrops —Paul Theroux
  5. Most of them [sopranos] sound like they live on seaweed —Sir Thomas Beecham
  6. Sang in a drone like a far-away tractor —Mary Ward Brown
  7. Sang without passion, like a conscientious schoolgirl —Antonia White
  8. Singing is as natural and common to all men as it is to speak high when they threaten in anger, or to speak low when they are dejected —William Law
  9. Singing voice … like a bee in a bottle, a melodious slightly adenoidal whine, wavering, full of sobs and breaks, and of a pitch like a boy’s before the change of voice —William Humphrey

    See Also: VOICE(S)

  10. Sing like a lark —William Makepeace Thackeray
  11. Sings as sweetly as a nightingale —William Shakespeare
  12. Song … old as air, and dark as doom —Mark Van Doren
  13. Sopranos trilling loudly as if terrorized —Harvey Swados
  14. (I tried to sing along but) the notes themselves kept sliding away from me like water drops dancing across a hot skillet —A. E. Maxwell

    See Also: ELUSIVENESS

  15. [A whistled] tune … seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird —James Baldwin
  16. Tune … that climbed and plummeted like a kite in the wind —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Singing - the act of singing vocal musicsinging - the act of singing vocal music  
musical performance - the act of performing music
eisteddfod - any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing)
music - musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"
vocal music - music that is vocalized (as contrasted with instrumental music)
a capella singing, a cappella singing - singing without instrumental accompaniment
bel canto - a style of operatic singing
coloratura - singing with florid ornamentation
caroling - singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas)
crooning - the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner
crooning - singing in a soft low tone; "her crooning soon put the child to sleep"
scat, scat singing - singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
harmonisation, harmonization - singing in harmony
humming - the act of singing with closed lips
chanting, intonation - the act of singing in a monotonous tone
intonation - singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
karaoke - singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
part-singing - singing with three or more voice parts
hymnody, psalmody - the act of singing psalms or hymns
singalong, singsong - informal group singing of popular songs
solfege, solfeggio - a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable
solfege, solfeggio, solmization - singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major
yodeling - singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto
Greek chorus, chorus - a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
private instructor, tutor, coach - a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
2.singing - disclosing information or giving evidence about another
disclosure, revealing, revelation - the speech act of making something evident
Adj.1.singing - smooth and flowing
music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
melodic, melodious, musical - containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"
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Translations
غِناءغِنَاء
zpěv
sang
laulaminen
pjevanje
éneklés
söngur
歌うこと
노래
petje
sång
การร้องเพลง
việc ca hát

singing

[ˈsɪŋɪŋ]
A. N
1. (= act of singing) → canto m
she is studying singingestudia canto
the singing stoppeddejaron de cantar
his singing was atrociouscantaba pésimamente, cantaba fatal
they stood for the singing of the Internationalese pusieron de pie para cantar la Internacional
2. [of kettle] → silbido m; (in ears) → zumbido m
B. CPD singing lesson Nlección f de canto
singing teacher Nprofesor(a) m/f de canto
singing telegram Ntelegrama m cantado
singing voice N to have a good singing voicetener una buena voz para cantar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

singing

[ˈsɪŋɪŋ]
n
[person, bird] → chant m
The dancing and singing ended at midnight → Les danses et les chants se terminèrent à minuit.
[kettle] → sifflement m
modif [career] → de chanteur/euse; [competition, lesson, teacher] → de chant
singing voice
She has a lovely singing voice → Elle a une jolie voix.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

singing

nSingen nt; (of person, bird also)Gesang m; (in the ears) → Dröhnen nt; (of kettle)Summen nt; he teaches singinger gibt Sing- or Gesangstunden, er gibt Singen (inf); do you like my singing?gefällt dir, wie ich singe?, gefällt dir mein Gesang?

singing

:
singing lesson
nGesangstunde f
singing telegram
n durch eine Agentur persönlich übermittelter, in Gesangsform vorgetragener Geburtstagsgruß etc
singing voice
nSingstimme f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

singing

[ˈsɪŋɪŋ]
1. n (of person, bird) → canto; (of kettle, bullet, in ears) → fischio
2. adj (lessons, teacher) → di canto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sing

(siŋ) past tense sang (saŋ) : past participle sung (saŋ) verb
to make (musical sounds) with one's voice. He sings very well; She sang a Scottish song; I could hear the birds singing in the trees.
ˈsinger noun
a person who sings, eg as a profession. Are you a good singer?; He's a trained singer.
ˈsinging noun
the art or activity of making musical sounds with one's voice. Do you do much singing nowadays?; (also adjective) a singing lesson/teacher.
sing out
to shout or call out. Sing out when you're ready to go.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

Singing

غِنَاء zpěv sang Singen τραγούδι canto laulaminen chant pjevanje canto 歌うこと 노래 zingen sang śpiew canto пение sång การร้องเพลง şarkı söyleme việc ca hát 唱歌
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References in classic literature ?
I have permission to carry the scraps over from the Court meals to my poor sick mother, and when I am going home at night, tired and weary, and rest for a little in the wood, then I hear the Nightingale singing! It brings tears to my eyes, and I feel as if my mother were kissing me!'
But one evening, when the artificial bird was singing its best, and the Emperor lay in bed listening to it, something in the bird went crack.
He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with gazing with his sparkling black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natasha.
All the car was singing a score of songs at once, and Bert, his head pillowed on Mary's breast with her arms around him, started "On the Banks of the Wabash." And he sang the song through, undeterred by the bedlam of two general fights, one on the adjacent platform, the other at the opposite end of the car, both of which were finally subdued by special policemen to the screams of women and the crash of glass.
When Harris is at a party, and is asked to sing, he replies: "Well, I can only sing a COMIC song, you know;" and he says it in a tone that implies that his singing of THAT, however, is a thing that you ought to hear once, and then die.
On another day she repeated this, at the same time singing most of the song to him softly in his ear.
She was enchanted by her talent, and her voice and her face, but most of all by her manner, by the way Varenka obviously thought nothing of her singing and was quite unmoved by their praises.
The richly dressed actresses and actors tripped about singing bravely and pretending not to mind it.
But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed it, Singing:--"Earth and Water, Air and Fire, What more can mortal man desire?"(The Apple Tree's in bud.)
With a quantity or pitch even more of genius or unusualness in him than in Jerry, Michael learned more quickly, and since the way of his education was singing, he came to sing far beyond the best Villa Kennan ever taught Jerry.
DOWN among the grass and fragrant clover lay little Eva by the brook-side, watching the bright waves, as they went singing by under the drooping flowers that grew on its banks.
Then he touched the door with the flower, and it sprang open; so that he went in through the court, and listened when he heard so many birds singing. At last he came to the chamber where the fairy sat, with the seven hundred birds singing in the seven hundred cages.