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Sing   /sɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sing  v. t.  (past sang; past part. sung; pres. part. singing)  
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." "And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise."
2.
To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. "Arms and the man I sing." "The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing."
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."


Sing  v. i.  (past sang; past part. sung; pres. part. singing)  
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."
2.
To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. "On every bough the briddes heard I sing." "Singing birds, in silver cages hung."
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."
4.
To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. "Bid her... sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed."
5.
To cry out; to complain. (Obs.) "They should sing if thet they were bent."





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"Sing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the apple-tree until the long twilight deepened into shadow, which closed round us, and a nightingale that lived in the garden began to sing. We all three loved the nightingale, and felt as though it knew that we were listening to it. It is a wonderful thing to sit quite still listening to a bird singing in the dark, and to dare to feel that while ...
— The White People • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... splits his throat, Ef nobody's thar to see. The cat-bird poorty nigh splits his throat, But ef I say, "Sing out, green coat," Why, "I can't" ...
— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston
... Roman, as he passed, read in graceful verse:[62] "We go on our way with the swift-moving waters of the torrent beneath our feet, and we delight on hearing the roar of the angry water. Go then joyfully at your ease, Quirites, and let the echoing murmur of the stream sing ever of Narses. He who could subdue the unyielding spirit of the Goths has taught the rivers to bear ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott
... need not say, but we tried not to give way.... I prayed earnestly for my darling child, and longed for to-morrow to arrive. Read Korner's beautiful, 'Gebet vor der Schlacht,' 'Vater ich rufe Dich,' ('Prayer before the Battle,' 'Father, I call on Thee'). My beloved husband used to sing it often...." ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler
... DARJA-SING (Centre): I should like to add to what I have just heard that another people, six centuries before Christ, also conceived the ideas of freedom and justice—I mean the Indian people. The essence of Buddhism is the doctrine of the equality of all men and of the sinfulness of oppression ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka


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