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Singing   /sˈɪŋɪŋ/   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."


noun
Singing  n.  A. & n. from Sing, v.
Singing bird. (Zool.)
(a)
Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird.
(b)
Specifically, any one of the Oscines.
Singing book, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes.
Singing falcon or Singing hawk. (Zool.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting.
Singing fish (Zool.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), called also midshipman; so called because it produces a buzzing sound with its air bladder.
Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon.
Singing master, a man who teaches vocal music.
Singing school, a school in which persons are instructed in singing.





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"Singing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dinner-table ended, the sound of singing and dancing was heard, the candle burned itself out, but the maiden still remained motionless on the moonlit floor at the feet of an image of the Mother ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Sam said in a whisper; "do you hear the sap singing in the log?" He bent forward with parted lips, intent upon the exquisite sound—a dream of summer leaves rustling and blowing in the wind. He turned his limpid stag's eyes to hers to feel ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... stranger's horse, or to do any of the many petty services that regular domestics contrive always to devolve upon some adopted subordinate. He was seated upon a stone step formerly used for mounting, and though the day was scarcely breaking, and the weather severe and piercing, the poor fellow was singing an Irish song, in a low monotonous tone, as he chafed a curb chain between his hands with some sand. As we came near he started up, and as he pulled off his cap to salute us, gave a sharp and piercing glance at the ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... was the night the carols were to be sung in the chapel. She could not miss that. It was the prettiest service of all the year, the old girls said. Some one had told her it was a custom for everybody to wear white to the carol-singing, but it was hard to remember things, maybe she had only dreamed it. She wished that she did not have to remember things, but could lie there without moving, until morning. What was it her mother used to sing to her? ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston
... I be frank with you, Harry, and say that if you had not been down on your knees, and so humble, you might have fared better with me? A woman of my spirit, cousin, is to be won by gallantry, and not by sighs and rueful faces. All the time you are worshipping and singing hymns to me, I know very well I am no goddess, and grow weary of the incense. So would you have been weary of the goddess too—when she was called Mrs. Esmond, and got out of humour because she had not pin-money enough, and was forced to go about in an old gown. Eh! cousin, ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray


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