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   Sing

   /siNG/

   

   verb

   • 1. make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune: "Bella sang to the baby" Similar chantintonecrooncarolchoruswarbletrillpipequaveryodelrenderperforminformal:belt outrare:troll
   • ▪ perform (a song, words, or tune) with the voice: "someone started singing “God Bless America”" Similar chantintonecrooncarolchoruswarbletrillpipequaveryodelrenderperforminformal:belt outrare:troll
   • ▪ sing in accompaniment to a song or piece of music: "we sing along to all the songs"
   • ▪ call something out loudly; shout: "he sang out a greeting" Similar call outcallcrycry outshoutyelltrumpetbellowroarinformal:hollercooee
   • ▪ (of a bird) make characteristic melodious whistling and twittering sounds: "the birds were singing in the chestnut trees" Similar warbletrilltwitterchirpchirrupcheeppeep
   • 2. make a high-pitched whistling or buzzing sound: "the kettle was beginning to sing"
   • ▪ (of a person's ear) be affected with a continuous buzzing sound, especially as the aftereffect of a blow or loud noise: "a stinging slap that made my ear sing"
   • 3. act as an informer to the police: informal "as soon as he got put under pressure, he sang like a canary" Similar inform (on someone)tell tales (on someone)informal:squealrat on someoneblow the whistle on someonepeach (on someone)snitch (on someone)put the finger on someonesell someone down the rivergrass (on someone)shop someonerat someone outfinger someonefink on someonedrop a/the dime on someonepimp on someone
   • 4. recount or celebrate in a work of literature, especially poetry: "poetry should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race"
   • ▪ compose poetry: archaic "he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme"

   noun

   • 1. an act or spell of singing: informal "we asked him to come back and have a bit of a sing"
   • ▪ a meeting for amateur singing. informal

   Word Origin Old Englishsingan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zingen and German singen.

   Derivatives

   • 1. singable adjective
   • 2. singingly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 5

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   What is sing verb?

   • Definition of sing verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary [intransitive, transitive] to make musical sounds with your voice in the form of a song or tune She usually sings in the shower. I just can't sing in tune!

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   What does sang mean?

   • , sang [sang]or, often, sung [suhng];sung; sing·ing. to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically. She promised to sing for us. The nightingale sang in the tree. Keats sang briefly but gloriously. He sang of the warrior's prowess. This lyric sings well.

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   What is the abbreviation for sing?

   • sing. Sing. is a written abbreviation for singular. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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   When you sing, you make music with your voice: "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti..." You get it. Many of us sing along to the radio, sing lullabys to babies, or sing happy birthday to our friends.

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