(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.
Swing
Definition:
(v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
(v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
(v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
(n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
(n.) To be hanged.
(v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
(v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
(v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
(n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
(n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
(n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
(n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
(n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
(n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(2) Anterior as well as posterior regions were both strongly active in relation to the swing-phase of stepping.
(3) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
(4) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) A single spin density gradient ultracentrifugation method in a swinging bucket rotor has been applied for the detection and isolation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions.
(8) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(9) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(10) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(11) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(13) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(14) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
(15) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(16) With the Republican primary in full swing, Ted Cruz, a hardliner by most measures, seemed a natural choice for this constituency.
(17) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(18) Squirrel monkeys controlled the air temperature within their test chamber by pulling a chain to select between two preset air temperatures, 10 and 50 degrees C. When the force required to pull the chain was increased in steps from 2.94 to 6.86 N, interresponse interval increased, resulting in wider air temperature swings within the chamber.
(19) Sleep disturbances and mood swings were significantly improved on the nocte dosage.
(20) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.