What's the difference between sing and suing?

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.

Suing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sue
  • (n.) The process of soaking through anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (3) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (4) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
  • (5) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
  • (6) This strain does not suppress phage phi 29 mutant susB47, selected on a B. subtilis strain containing the su+3 suppressor isolated by Georgopoulos.
  • (7) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
  • (8) Su(H) is also involved in controlling the fates of sensillum accessory cells and is specifically expressed in two of these cells.
  • (9) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (10) Raji consistently exhibited the highest and SU-AMB-1 the lowest polymerase activity and ellipticity.
  • (11) Doctors fear being sued if morphine given to relieve terminally ill patients' pain hastens their death.
  • (12) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
  • (13) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
  • (14) Last Friday, a high court judge ordered NoW to make available Mulcaire's notes to the growing list of people suing the paper.
  • (15) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
  • (16) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
  • (17) The segment of DNA encoding only this 5-kb message rescues both the suppression and cold-sensitive male sterility phenotypes of su(s).
  • (18) IBAT weights, IBAT:BW ratios, and IBAT cell number of corpulent greater than lean, and were greater than with SU than CS diet in both phenotypes.
  • (19) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
  • (20) McKillen, who owns 36% of Maybourne Hotel Group, is suing the Barclay brothers, alleging they used illegal means to seize control of the company.

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