What's the difference between hymn and sing?

Hymn


Definition:

  • (n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
  • (v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
  • (v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
  • (2) As the hymns faded Francis made a now familiar appeal in English: “Please,” he said, “I ask you: don’t forget to pray for me.” It was his last scheduled event in New York.
  • (3) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
  • (4) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
  • (5) In East Germany this was our hymn,” says one man.
  • (6) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
  • (7) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
  • (8) !” singing hymns and other songs The women, who are a range of ages, have travelled from across Gauteng province and are and saying a prayer ahead of a planned march in the city centre.
  • (9) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
  • (10) A hymn of praise, and a word of warning,” the book has been compiled by two titans of pragmatic ecology, Nigel Holmes and Paul Raven.
  • (11) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
  • (12) She was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant for leukaemia when I was writing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and I went through a life-questioning crisis.
  • (13) The song – which cannot be described as great art - like many National Anthems including our own, is strident and solemn, and could be hymn.
  • (14) John Kampfner: Clegg has an opportunity now to strike out After Chairman Mao and the 1950s hymn book , the Liberal Democrats had the chance of offering something more modern and enticing than their rivals.
  • (15) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
  • (16) I know the hymns and I know the prayers and I know the good done by many Christians in the act of witness.
  • (17) The point is that Marine can have a clear-out, and everyone will now (more or less) sing from the same hymn sheet: hers.
  • (18) In Battle Hymn …, she writes that she was determined "not to raise a soft, entitled child – not to let my family fall".
  • (19) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
  • (20) There was even a chant of "Attack, attack, attack" from the Stretford End as the game kicked off as if in anticipation of the shackles of unadventurous football being thrown off, plus any number of favourite hymns to Giggs and Paul Scholes.

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.