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Definition: Sing |
SingVerb1. Deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols". 2. Produce musical 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". 5. Divulge information or secrets; spill the beans; "Be careful--his secretary talks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Sing \Sing\, intransitive verb [imperfect Sungor Sang; past participle Sung; Singing.]. (references) |
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Mining | A hissing noise often made by gas and water when a seam of coal is cutinto. (references) |
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Milli Vanilli was a duo, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, formed in Germany in the mid-1980s. They are notorious for being the only group to have their Grammy Award stripped from them after it was revealed that they had not been involved in the creation of their breakthrough album, Girl You Know It's True and did not sing in concert. They have since been used as an example of utter shallowness in music, though they were hardly unique at the time. Other bands, including C and C Music Factory and Black Box, were also fronted by lip-syncers.Frank Farian used Pilatus and Morvan to front Charles Shaw, Johnny Davis and Brad Howell; he felt that these musicians were talented but unmarketable. Their first album was All or Nothing (1988 in music), which was a European hit and, belatedly, an American hit too. Despite critical pans, Milli Vanilli's fame continued to grow worldwide even after Charles Shaw told a reporter the truth; he later retracted his statement after Farian paid him off. Milli Vanilli won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990 for their second album, Girl You Know It's True (1990 in music). Pilatus was ridiculed in the press for comparing himself to Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan; he also developed a cocaine problem. With Morvan and Pilatus pressuring him to let them sing on the next album, Farian revealed the truth to reporters. The Grammy was rescinded; Arista dropped it from its rosters and a court ruling in the US allowed anyone who had bought the album to get a refund.
Farian tried to reform the band as the Real Milli Vanilli, but the resulting LP Moment of Truth was an utter failure. Pilatus tried to commit suicide soon after, then rejoined with Morvan as Rob & Fab. After a few more tries, Pilatus began a series of criminal problems, arrested for assault and vandalism, among other crimes, in Los Angeles. In 1998, Pilatus was found dead of an overdose of drugs and alcohol in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. Air is expelled with the diaphragm as with ordinary breathing, and the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming. A piece of music that is sung is called a song; someone who sings is called a singer.Most singing involves shaping the mouth to form words, but types of mouth music which use open sounds or nonsense syllables ("vocables") also exist, for instance scat singing or yodeling. Solfege assigns certain syllables to notes in the scale.
Singing can be heard in many different places, since anyone who can speak can sing. It can be informal and just for pleasure (for example in the shower), or very formal, such as singing done professionally in a performance or in a recording studio.
Singing is often done in a group, such as a choir, and may be accompanied by musical instruments, a full orchestra, or a band.
Singing with no instrumental accompaniment is called a capella. However, the Choral Journal and other vocal-related publications actively discouage the use of this term and prefer the word "unaccompanied".
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Sing. | English | Singular | Language |
| Sing. | French | Singulier | Language |
| Sing. | German | Einzahl | Language |
| Sing. | Italian | Singolare | Language |
| Sing. | Latin | Singularis | Language |
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Synonyms: SingSynonyms: babble (v), babble out (v), blab (v), blab out (v), peach (v), talk (v), tattle (v), whistle (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: keep quiet (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo. |
Boasting | Exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood. |
Concord | Verb: agree; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant; Adjective: go hand in hand; run parallel; (concur); understand one another, pull together; (cooperate); put up one's horses together, sing in chorus. |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Humility | Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear. |
Lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. | |
Penitence | Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience. |
Poetry | Verb: poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan. |
Phrase: "a poem round and perfect as a star"; Dichtung und Wahrheit; furor poeticus; "his virtues formed the magic of his song"; "I do but sing because I must"; "I learnt life from the poets"; licentia vatum; mutum est pictura poema; "O for a muse of fire!"; "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge"; "the true poem is the poet's mind"; Volk der Dichter und Denker; "wisdom married to immortal verse". | |
Rejoicing | Verb: rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult; (boast); triumph; hold jubilee; (celebrate); make merry; (sport). |
Repute | Give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing praises to; (approve); lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate. |
Worship | Return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you'll know (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Gettys! I'm going to send you to Sing Sing (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz ; Orson Welles) Mommy loves Martin because he is real, and when I am real Mommy's going to read to me and tuck me in my bed and sing to me and listen to what I say and she will cuddle with me and tell me every day a hundred times a day that she loves me (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) I can sing while I read, I am singing and reading - both (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.) | |
Lyrics | Sing it with me, if its just for today (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) Sing a song, you dance alone (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Boy you make me wanna sing (Rock Wit U(Awww Baby); performing artist: ASHANTI) You want to sing with me (Around the World (La la la la la); performing artist: ATC) Brothers sisters everybody sing (Everybody(Backstreet's Back); performing artist: BACKSTREET BOYS) | |
Clever | How to act insane: Sing along at the opera. (references; author: unknown) WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing. (references; author: unknown) A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. (references; author: unknown) A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. (references; author: unknown) This evening at 7 P.M., there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Places Where They Sing (1973) Sing a Country Song (1973) Poet Sing Your Song (1973) Of Thee I Sing (1972) Why I Sing (1972) | |
Song Titles | Sing A Whale Song (performing artist: Tom Chapin) SING A SONG (performing artist: Wind & Fire Earth) We'll Sing In The Sunshine (performing artist: Gale Garnett) Crow That Wanted To Sing (performing artist: Tom Paxton) Sing Sing Sing (performing artist: Fred Penner) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Entering Honolulu harbor during her shakedown cruise, 9 July 1934. Photographed by Tai Sing Loo. Credit: NAVY. |  | In Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, circa 1939. Photographed by Tai Sing Loo. Trenton is carrying SOC floatplanes on her catapults. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sing, dance, carouse every night. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | How they sing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Recovery, recovery of thee I sing!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Prisoners knitting in one of their classrooms, Sing Sing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New prison, second in size to Sing Sing, Green Haven, N.Y. / Acme. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All day community sing, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yo no tomo la guitarra por conseguir un aplauso : yo canto la diferencia de lo cierto lo falso ... = I do not play the guitar for applause : I sing of the difference between what is true and what is false ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sing a song..." by Guiga Müller Commentary: "I wanted the picture to be bigger than it actually was so I used the "grain" filter (Photoshop)...hope it's not THAT bad!." | "If Tulips Could Sing" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "... it would sound like this. From the series: Tulip Talk." |
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 | Piano; chant; low; baritone; bass; sing; song; sang. | | Sing; warm-up; sang; wobble; climb; ascend. |
| Sing; sung; sang; tenor. | ||
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Charles Browne | I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ... "Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last." |
Francis Thompson | The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl. |
Henry Ford | The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. |
Virgil | Arms and the man I sing. |
Walt Whitman | I celebrate myself, and sing myself. |
William Shakespeare | Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1948) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He could sing a little himself |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There they sing, innocently, their collection of low songs |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He saw her approach him in a lull of the talk and beg him to sing one of his curious songs |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots |
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Civil Liberties | Singapore | Since the beginning of 2000, public secondary schools have suspended indefinitely 12 students who were members of Jehovah's Witnesses for refusing to sing the national anthem or participate in the flag ceremony. (references) |
Economic History | Chile | This sector is based on two main grids, the SING and SIC. (references) |
Chile | The SING has experienced a major quantitative jump in the available electric power supply, traditionally based on coal-fired power plants. (references) | |
Human Rights | Laos | Two prisoners from the pre-1975 regime, Colonel Sing Chanthakoumane and Major Pang Thong Chokbengvoun, are serving life sentences after trials that did not appear to be conducted according to international standards. (references) |
Zimbabwe | During the year, business managers of urban NGO's and private companies were abducted and taken to ZANU-PF headquarters, where some were beaten and threatened, and others were forced to kiss a portrait of President Mugabe and sing ruling party slogans. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Important guests accept requests to sing. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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Barry Manilow | I lay out all the songs that I sing. Then I ask the orchestrator/arrangers to write it out for the musicians. I used to do that for Bette, but I stopped doing it for myself. |
Judy Collins | So, when I hear those records, it's different. And now, I have a very different range and I can sing all kinds of things easily, and so it's different and it's dependable and I'm very fortunate. |
Mariah Carey | People ask me that a lot. I wouldn't want to do Broadway where I had to sing the same way every night. But something funny, some type of comedic thing would be cool, like an off Broadway thing. |
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| "Sing" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.80% of the time. "Sing" is used about 2,151 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 62.8% | 1,351 | 5,887 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.16% | 799 | 8,693 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,151 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sing | Last name | 1,000 | 12,947 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Dah Sing Financial Holdings Ltd. | Malaysia | Mah Sing Group Berhad |
| Singapore | Tuan Sing Holdings Limited | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "sing": begin to sing ♦ have a sing ♦ sing a baby to sleep ♦ sing a child to sleep ♦ sing a different song ♦ sing a different tune ♦ sing a persons praises ♦ sing a song ♦ sing along ♦ sing alto ♦ sing another song ♦ sing another tune ♦ sing away ♦ sing first ♦ sing flat ♦ sing from music ♦ sing in chorus ♦ sing in parts ♦ sing in tune ♦ sing Io triumphe ♦ sing like an angel ♦ sing of ♦ sing of spring ♦ sing one's own praises ♦ sing out ♦ sing out of tune ♦ sing praises ♦ sing sharp ♦ sing small ♦ sing smb. to sleep ♦ sing smb.'s praise ♦ sing smth. by request ♦ sing softly ♦ sing the diona ♦ sing the praises of ♦ sing up ♦ star sing ♦ To hear a bird sing ♦ To sing placebo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sing": sing-along, sing-a-long, sing-alongs, sing-a-longs, sing-kwa, sing-po, Sing-sing, sing-song, sing-song voice, sing-songed, sing-songs. | |
Ending with "sing": il-sing, Kobus sing-sing, Sing-sing, yok-sing. | |
Containing "sing": in a sing-song. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moment sing | 1,071 | it.com let sing | 56 |
sing | 609 | i could sing of your love forever | 56 |
let sing it | 486 | lyrics sing sorrow | 56 |
lyrics moment sing | 262 | sing sorrow | 54 |
eminem lyrics moment sing | 185 | sing sing sing | 50 |
wee sing | 162 | long oz sing wizard | 48 |
eminem moment sing | 149 | let sing | 45 |
afi lyrics sing sorrow | 125 | sing it | 43 |
learn to sing | 121 | lyrics sing | 42 |
sing sing | 100 | in sing | 42 |
sing along | 99 | don mockingbird sing t | 40 |
lift every voice and sing | 97 | it let lyrics sing | 39 |
365 sing | 93 | along oz sing wizard | 39 |
prison sing sing | 84 | magic sing | 38 |
sing tao | 83 | com it let sing | 37 |
sing spell read and write | 81 | could forever i love lyrics sing | 34 |
sing along song | 70 | sing up | 32 |
afi sing sorrow | 70 | i sing the body electric | 32 |
sing a song | 66 | 365.com sing | 29 |
sing tao daily | 64 | sing language | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "sing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sing. (various references) | |
Albanian | këndoj (cantillate, Carol, crow, descant, troll). (various references) | |
Arabic | نادى (call, call for, call out, club, cry, hail, page, proclaim), نشد (sang, spout, sung, warble), وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rat, rubricate, sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), غنى لينام طفل, غنى أغنية, غنى (affluence, chant, croon, enrich, make money, opulence, perform, render, riches, richness, sang, sung, warble, wealth), غرد (chirp), تجسس (eavesdrop, espionage, rat, snoop, snooping, spy, spying), أز (boom, buzz, fizz, ping, roar, sizzle, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), شدا (warble), دندن (croon, drone, hum, mumble, warble). (various references) | |
Aymara | huancasiña (to sing). (various references) | |
Basque | kantatu (sing to). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | inihki (to sing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свистя (hiss, ping, pipe, scream, swish, whiffle, whistle, whiz, whoosh, zip), свиря (blare, chime, finger, grind, perform, pipe, play, tune), славя, възпявам (berhyme, berime, chant, descant, hymn, tune), лесен съм за пеене, буча (hum, ring, thunder), бръмча (boom, burr, buzz, drone, drum, ha, hum, ping, purr, ring, whir, whirr), признавам си всичко (come clean), пея (chant, descant, jug, perform, pipe, vocalize), изпявам всичко, изпявам. (various references) | |
Catalan | cantar. (various references) | |
Chinese | 詠 , 嗊 , 歌唱 , 演唱 , 唱歌 (sang, singing, sung), 唱 (to call loudly, to chant). (various references) | |
Cornish | cana (to sing). (various references) | |
Czech | zpívat (appear, chant, cough), opìvovat (chant, extol). (various references) | |
Danish | synge. (various references) | |
Dutch | zingen, bezingen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kanti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | syngja. (various references) | |
Farsi | تصنیف (Ballad, Impromptu, Song), سرودن (Compose), سرودخواندن (Hymn), سرود (Anthem, Canto, Chant, Hymn, Psalm, Song, Warble), سراءیدن (Intone, Troll, Warble), اوازخواندن (Cant), اواز (Air, Croon, Singsong, Song, Tune). (various references) | |
Finnish | laulaa (warble). (various references) | |
French | chanter. (various references) | |
Frisian | sjonge. (various references) | |
German | singen (blab, buzz, buzzing, Carol, chant, chanting, give, grass, hum, humming, sing away, singing, squeal, to sing (sang, vocalize). (various references) | |
Greek | τραγουδώ (singing). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | këndoj. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשיר (chant), לשורר (compose poetry), לשרוק (blow, hiss, hoot, pipe, whistle), לזמר (chant, praise), לרון (chant), לרנן (chant, murmur, praise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | énekel (chant, descant, sang, sung, to carol, to chant, to chirp, to chorus, to sing, to warble). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyanyikan, menyanyi, mendendangkan, mendendang. (various references) | |
Irish | can. (various references) | |
Italian | cantare (crow, squeal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 歌い合う (to sing responsively), 一節歌う (to sing a tune), 唄う (to sing), 囀る (to chirp, to sing, to twitter), 口号む (to compose impromptu, to hum, to sing to oneself), 口ずさむ (to hum something, to sing to oneself), 口遊む (to compose impromptu, to hum, to sing to oneself), 且つ飲み且つ歌う (to drink and sing at the same time, to drink as well as sing), 泣く (to cry, to sing), 聞かす (to inform about, to read to, to sing for), 歌い上げる (to express one's feelings fully in a poem, to sing at the top of one's voice), 歌う (to sing), 喜歌う (to rejoice and sing), 褒め歌う (to sing praises to), 謡う (to sing), 能楽で謡曲を謡う (to sing a noh song at a noh performance), 聞かせる (to inform, to read to, to sing for, to tell), 手前味噌 (self-flattery, sing one's own praises). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なく (to bark, to cry, to make sound, to purr, to sing), きかす (to inform about, to read to, to sing for), きかせる (to inform, to read to, to sing for, to tell), くちずさむ (to compose impromptu, to hum, to hum something, to sing to oneself), ひとふしうたう (to sing a tune), さえずる (to chirp, to sing, to twitter), うたう (to express, to insist, to sing, to state, to stipulate), うたいあう (to sing responsively), うたいあげる (to express one's feelings fully in a poem, to sing at the top of one's voice), ほめうたう (to sing praises to), かつのみかつうたう (to drink and sing at the same time, to drink as well as sing), よろこびうたう (to rejoice and sing), てまえみそ (self-flattery, sing one's own praises). (various references) | |
Korean | 노래하십시요. (various references) | |
Malay | nyanyi. (various references) | |
Manx | kiaulley (sing out, sing up), kiaulleeagh (intone, singsong), goaill arrane (busk, troll), cronnaney (boom, croon, drone, hum, purr). (various references) | |
Maori | waiata-tia (to sing). (various references) | |
Maya | kay (fish, to sing). (various references) | |
Mohawk | -terennotha' (to sing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | synge. (various references) | |
Occitan | cantar. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kanta. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingsay.(various references) | |
Polish | śpiewać. (various references) | |
Portuguese | cantar (chirr, crow, jug, tune). (various references) | |
Romanian | zice (affirm, call, declare, have, pretend, pronounce, put, read, recite, say, tell, think), intona (intone), glãsui (say, speak), fluiera (blow, catcall, damn, goose, pipe, piss, whistle, whiz), fâsâi, cînta, cânta (Carol, crow, pipe, play in, resound, trill, tune, vocalize, warble), şuiera (hiss, ping, rave, whistle, whizz, zip). (various references) | |
Romansch | chantar (to sing). (various references) | |
Romany | gilyàvav (to sing). (various references) | |
Russian | петь (pipe, sang, sings, sung), спеть. (various references) | |
Scottish | seinn (play upon an instrument, playing upon an instrument, ring, ringing, singing). (various references) | |
Sepedi | bina (dance, to sing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | propevati, pevati, pevanje (singing). (various references) | |
Sicilian | cantari (to sing). (various references) | |
Spanish | cantar (chant, cough, edge, jingle, let on, perform, song, sound, squeal). (various references) | |
Sranan | singi (singing). (various references) | |
Swazi | ku-hlábela (to sing). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjunga (chant, croon, twang, vocalize, warble). (various references) | |
Thai | สรรเสริญด้วยบทกวี, การร้องเพลง, ร้องเพลง. (various references) | |
Turkish | söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), vızıldamak (buzz, drone, hum, ping, whiz, whizz, whoosh), vınlamak (hum, swish, whistle, whiz, whizz, whoosh, zing, zip, zoom), uğuldamak (boom, buzz, howl, hum, murmur, ping, roar, scream, sough, whistle), okumak (announce, peruse, read, say, study), şarkı söylemek (chant, descant, have a sing, sing a song), şarkı söyleme (singing, song), şakımak (jug, roll, sing out, trill, warble), ötmek (caw, coo, crow, honk, hoop, hoot, jug, sing out, warble, whistle), çağırmak (call, call away, call for, call in, cite, cry out, hail, invite, invoke, shout to, summon, whistle up), çınlamak (buzz, clang, din, jingle, resonate, resound, ring out, ting, tingle, tinkle), ıslık gibi ses çıkarmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | saяramak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрекотати (whir, whirr), свистіти (ping, pipe, whistle, whiz, whizz, zing), співати (cantillate, carp, chant, crow, descant, vocalize, warble), зустрічати співом. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng reo (sang, sung, whoop). (various references) | |
Welsh | canu (chant, crow, play, ring). (various references) | |
Yucatec | k'aay (music, song). (various references) | |
Zulu | -hlabelela. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | boo, boo, boare, can, canam, canamus, cane, canebant, canendum, canens, canentem, canentes, canentium, canere, canerentque, caneret, canes, canet, canetis, cani, canis, canite, canitis, canitur, cano, canti, cantorum, cantu, cantum, cecinerunt, cecineruntque, cecinimus, cecinit, concinebant, concinentem, concinentibus, concinetur, modulamini, psallo, singularis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | asingan, galan, gieddian, singan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 6 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Peccantem virum iniquum involvet laqueus et iustus laudabit atque gaudebit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The sinnende wicke man a grene shal inwrappe; and the riytwise shal preisen, and ioyen. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Diha sa kalapasan sa usa ka dautan nga tawo adunay usa ka lit-ag; Apan ang matarung magaawit ug magalipay. |
| Croatian | U grijehu je zamka zlu èovjeku, a pravednik likuje i veseli se. |
| Danish | I sin Brøde hildes den onde, den retfærdige jubler af Glæde. |
| Dutch | In de overtreding eens bozen mans is een strik; maar de rechtvaardige juicht en is blijde. |
| Finnish | Pahalle miehelle on oma rikos paulaksi, mutta vanhurskas saa riemuita ja iloita. |
| French | Il y a un piège dans le péché de l`homme méchant, Mais le juste triomphe et se réjouit. |
| German | Wenn ein Böser sündigt, verstrickt er sich selbst; aber ein Gerechter freut sich und hat Wonne. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun mechan pran nan mechanste y'ap fè. Men, moun ki mache dwat yo gen kè kontan, y'ap fè fèt. |
| Hungarian | A gonosz ember vétkében tõr van; az igaz pedig énekel és vígad. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jahat terjerat oleh dosanya, orang jujur merasa senang dan bahagia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa kejahatannya juga menjadi jerat bagi orang jahat, tetapi orang benar itu lari luput lalu bersukacita hatinya. |
| Italian | Sotto i passi del malvagio c'è un trabocchetto, mentre il giusto corre ed è contento. |
| Maori | ¶ He rore kei roto i te he o te tangata kino; ko te tangata tika ia he waiata tana, he koa. |
| Norwegian | En ond manns misgjerning er en snare for ham, men den rettferdige skal juble og glede sig. |
| Portuguese | Na transgressão do homem mau há laço; mas o justo canta e se regozija. |
| Rumanian | Kn pqcatul omului rqu este o cursq, dar cel bun biruie wi se bucurq. - |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sing": singable, singe, singed, singeing, singer, singers, singes, singing, single, singled, singleness, singlenesses, singles, singlestick, singlesticks, singlet, singleton, singletons, singletree, singletrees, singlets, singling, singly, sings, singsong, singsongs, singsongy, singspiel, singspiels, singular, singularities, singularity, singularize, singularized, singularizes, singularizing, singularly, singulars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sing": abasing, abscessing, abscising, abusing, accessing, accessorising, acclimatising, accusing, addressing, advertising, advising, aggrandising, aggressing, agonising, alkalising, allegorising, amassing, amortising, amusing, analysing, anastomosing, anatomising, anglicising, ankylosing, antibusing, aphorising, apologising, apostatising, apostrophising, appeasing, appetising, apposing, appraising, apprising, archaising, arising, arousing, aspersing, assessing, atomising, attitudinising, authorising, autolysing, avulsing, azotising, backcrossing, baptising, basing, bastardising, becursing, bekissing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sing": accusingly, advertisings, amusingly, amusingness, amusingnesses, appraisingly, blessings, busings, bussings, caressingly, casings, chasings, closings, confusingly, coprocessings, counteradvertisings, coursings, crossings, cruisings, decreasingly, depressingly, disingenuous, disingenuously, disingenuousness, disingenuousnesses, dispraisingly, distressingly, dressings, embarrassingly, engrossingly, folksinger, folksingers, folksinging, folksingings, fundraisings, gassings, hairdressings, hissings, housings, imposingly, increasingly, isinglass, isinglasses, leasings, losingly, losings, mastersinger, mastersingers, merchandisings, minnesinger, minnesingers. (additional references) | |
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"Sing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hsing, hsing-i, ising, ning, Nseng, Nsing, Nsinga, Sahng, saing, sa-nga, sangh, Sangi, segn, seign, seing, Shiongo, siag, Sicga, sieg, sigg, signi, siig, silg, sina, sind, singo, singy, sinh, sini, Sinj, sino, sinp, sinq, sint, sinu, sinx, siny, siog, sion, smin, sneg, sng, snieg, soing, sping, sring, ssig, sunng, sving, syg, syng, tsin, Tsing, ving, xing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sing" (pronounced si"ng) |
| 2 | -i" ng | bring, cling, ding, fling, king, Ling, ping, ring, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, thing, ting, upswing, wing, wring, zing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gins, sign. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: gin, ins, sin. | |
-2 letters: in, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: dings, gains, ginks, girns, grins, kings, lings, nighs, pings, rings, segni, sengi, signs, singe, sings, sling, sting, suing, swing, tings, using, wings, zings. | |
+2 letters: agings, algins, aligns, ashing, asking, assign, basing, begins, beings, binges, bingos, brings, busing, casing, clings, coigns, cosign, deigns, design, dinges, dingus, doings, dosing, dyings, easing, ensign, fagins, feigns, flings, fusing, gainst, gamins, gaskin, genies, genips, genius, giants, gibson, gipons, girons, givens, glints, gneiss, gnosis, goings, gonifs, grains, grinds, grison, groins, hinges, hosing, icings, incogs, ingest, ingles, ingots, isling, isogon, kiangs, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, losing, lungis, lyings, lysing, musing, neighs, nights, nosing, pignus, pingos, posing, rasing, reigns, renigs, resign, rising, rosing, saning, sating, saving, sawing, saying, seeing, sering, sewing, sexing, shying, siding, signal, signed, signee, signer, signet, signor, singed, singer, singes, single, singly, siping, siring, siting, sizing, skiing, skying, slings, sluing, soigne, soling, soring, sowing, spring, spuing, spying, stingo, stings, stingy, string, stying, swinge, swings, swingy, things, tigons, tinges, tsking, unguis, unrigs, vising, wigans, wising, wrings, yogins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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