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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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Etymology of 'Sing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sing" Quotes from Famous Books

... cathedral. Others incarnate it in gleaming bronze; or spread it in subtle play of light and shade and tones of color on a canvas; or write it in great plays which open the dark chambers of the soul and make the heart stand still; or sing it in sweet and terrible verse, full-throated utterance of man's pride and hope and passion. Some act it before the altar or beneath the proscenium arch; some speak it, now in Cassandra-tones, now comfortably like shepherds of frail sheep. These folk ...

— Preaching and Paganism • Albert Parker Fitch

... little boy eight years old. I want to tell you that papa heard a bluebird sing in a chestnut-tree on January 11. I have six cats and three ducks. One of my cats died last week, and ...

— Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of his oldest friend,' and every one treated her accordingly. No one even mentioned her profession, and possibly some of the guests did not quite realise that she was the famous Cordova. Lady Maud never suggested that she should sing, and Lord Creedmore detested music. The old piano in the long drawing-room was hardly ever opened. It had been placed there in Victorian days when 'a little music' was the rule, and since the happy abolition of ...

— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford

... land Enkindling the waters and ways of the air From thy forehead made bare, From the gleam of thy bow-bearing hand? Hast thou set not thy right hand again to the string, With the back-bowed horns bent sharp for a spring 1410 And the barbed shaft drawn, Till the shrill steel sing and the tense nerve ring That pierces the heart of the dark with dawn, O huntsman, O king, When the flame of thy face hath twilight in chase As a hound hath a blood-mottled fawn? He has glanced into ...

— Erechtheus - A Tragedy (New Edition) • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... They'll stay there a few minutes talking it over and getting up their courage to try it again. Next time they'll come from another direction. You two," he continued, turning to the Mexicans, "take positions on the east and south sides of the house. Sing can remain here with Mr. Harding. I'll take the north side facing the office. Shoot at the first man who shows his head. If we can hold them off until dark we may be able to get away. Whatever happens don't let one ...

— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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