Singing

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sing \Sing\ (s[i^]ng), 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.
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              The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii.
                                                    18.
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     2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
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              On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer.
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              Singing birds, in silver cages hung.  --Dryden.
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     3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in
        passing through a crevice.
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              O'er his head the flying spear
              Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope.
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     4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to
        celebrate something in poetry. --Milton.
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              Bid her . . . sing
              Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior.
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     5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.]
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              They should sing if thet they were bent. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singing \Sing"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Sing}, v.
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     {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sing
       v 1: deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols"
       2: produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was
          cooking"; "My brother sings very well"
       3: to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing"
       4: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was
          singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: {whistle}]
       5: divulge confidential information or secrets;  "Be
          careful--his secretary talks" [syn: {spill the beans}, {let
          the cat out of the bag}, {talk}, {tattle}, {blab}, {peach},
           {babble}, {babble out}, {blab out}] [ant: {keep quiet}]
       [also: {sung}, {singing}, {sang}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  singing
       adj : smooth and flowing [syn: {cantabile}]
       n 1: the act of singing vocal music [syn: {vocalizing}]
       2: disclosing information or giving evidence about another
          [syn: {tattle}, {telling}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  singing
       See {sing}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "singing":
     alto, baritone, bass, beaming, beatific, beatified, bel canto,
     blessed, blissful, bravura, capering, cheerful, chirping, choral,
     choral service, choral singing, choric, coloratura, croon,
     crooning, dancing, dramatic, eisteddfod, falsetto,
     farewell performance, flushed with joy, folk singing,
     folk-music festival, folk-sing, gay, glad, glowing, happy, heroic,
     hootenanny, hum, humming, hymnal, intonation, jam session, joyful,
     joyous, laughing, leaping, liturgical, lyric, lyricism,
     music festival, musicale, opera festival, operatic,
     operatic singing, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, purring, radiant,
     rock festival, sacred, scat, scat singing, service of song, sing,
     sing-in, singfest, smiling, smirking, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise,
     solfeggio, solmization, song, soprano, sparkling, starry-eyed,
     swan song, tenor, thrice happy, tonic sol-fa, treble, vocal,
     vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling