Singing

sing  (sng)

v. sang (sng) or sung (sng), 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.

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

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singa·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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	singing - the act of singing vocal music       vocalizing 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 tattle, telling disclosure, revealing, revelation - the speech act of making something evident
Adj.	1.	singing - smooth and flowing cantabile 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"

Translations

singing [ˈsɪŋɪŋ]

A. N

1. (= act of singing) → canto m
she is studying singing → estudia canto
the singing stopped → dejaron de cantar
his singing was atrocious → cantaba pésimamente, cantaba fatal
they stood for the singing of the Internationale → se pusieron de pie para cantar la Internacional

2. [of kettle] → silbido m; (in ears) → zumbido m

B. CPD singing lesson N → lección f de canto
singing teacher N → profesor(a) m/f de canto
singing telegram N → telegrama m cantado
singing voice N to have a good singing voice → tener una buena voz para cantar

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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.

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singing

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

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singing:

singing lesson

n → Gesangstunde f

singing telegram

n durch eine Agentur persönlich übermittelter, in Gesangsform vorgetragener Geburtstagsgruß etc

singing voice

n → Singstimme f

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singing [ˈsɪŋɪŋ]

1. n (of person, bird) → canto; (of kettle, bullet, in ears) → fischio

2. adj (lessons, teacher) → di canto

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singing → غناء zpěv sang Singen τραγούδι canto laulaminen chant pjevanje canto 歌うこと 노래 zingen sang śpiew canto пение sång การร้องเพลง şarkı söyleme tiếng hát 唱歌