What's the difference between croon and sing?

Croon


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
  • (v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
  • (v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
  • (v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.
  • (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.
  • (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
  • (2) "Never gonna say goodbye," he crooned in his surprisingly basso voice - and who knew how right he was.
  • (3) You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile , his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.
  • (4) The two meet at the weekend in their world heavyweight title bout in Düsseldorf and Fury may consider himself already ahead on points after crooning: “You are the one with all the glory, I’m the one with all the strength,” to the holder of the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts.
  • (5) In 2014, he even appeared in a fashion ad himself, crooning seductively to the model Arizona Muse for Louis Vuitton .
  • (6) Italians were subjected to a media diet of parading models and Berlusconi crooning, with his political opponents sidelined in comparison.
  • (7) But, of course, that catchy La La Land song City of Stars made the title impossible to read without mentally crooning like Ryan Gosling.
  • (8) I don't care if we're simply waiting for The X Factor results to see if the nation has finally cauterized the crooning urinary tract infection that is Frankie Cocozza.
  • (9) Malcolm McDowell lookalike and honey-larynxed frontman Ian croons his way through these late 80's teen time love anthems.
  • (10) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
  • (11) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
  • (12) She'd snarl like an angry Dylan or croon with tenderness, punctuating Lenny Kaye's guitar work with murmured incantations.
  • (13) His favourite recent film is Lost in Translation, in which Bill Murray shows his own 50-quid tendencies by crooning a karaoke version of the Roxy Music song More Than This.
  • (14) According to Oliver Alexander, they also sang together: "Both made a foray into the German pop charts in 1974 as "The Kremers", crooning romantically about the 'girl of my dream'."
  • (15) After rallying for his 21st professional win, Fury wrested the mic from an in-ring interviewer and crooned country singer Ricky Van Shelton’s Keep it Between the Lines to the bewildered New York city crowd.
  • (16) "It's been a long time coming," a soul singer crooned, "but change is going to come!"
  • (17) As he has said elsewhere: "For my generation in the 70s, [Hall] was one of the few people of colour we saw on television who wasn't crooning, dancing or running.
  • (18) As the chancellor huskily crooned national living wage , uncontrollable tidal waves of ecstasy swept through the Tories.
  • (19) "London is the place for me," he crooned, "London, this lovely city …" He had yet to experience smog-bound austerity Brixton, whose labour exchange was first port of call for many of Kitchener's 500 fellow travellers.
  • (20) One can't help but walk away from Paisley's crooning "I'm just a white man comin' to you from a south land" and LL's proclamations that "it's real, it's real, it's truth" without feeling they are earnest.

Sing


Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
  • (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
  • (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
  • (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
  • (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
  • (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
  • (7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
  • (11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
  • (13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
  • (14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
  • (16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
  • (17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
  • (20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.

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