sing
//ˈsɪŋ//
Forms
- present (v1)
- sing
- past (v2)
- sang
- past participle (v3)
- sung
- present participle
- singing
- 3rd person singular
- sings
- Plural
- sings
Definitions
1.To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- "I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
2.To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- Have you ever heard her sing on stage?
- If only I could sing well.
3.To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
4.To soothe with singing.
- Have you ever heard her sing on stage?
- If only I could sing well.
1.The act, or event, of singing songs.
- I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.
- 'Ah, yes, Miss Fisher, have you had a nice sing?'
- Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
2.Any sound likened to human singing.
- Archie and Clem know gunshots when they hear them and the sing of a bullet as it drills the windshield and exits the back glass of the truck.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1066
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”).