(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.
Zing
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
(2) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(3) He admits to lacking the entrepreneurial zing of contemporaries such as Jamie Byng of Canongate; as he tells the story of his rise through the ranks, it sounds as if he triumphed by being able to keep his cool when faced with managers who had no feeling for books at all.
(4) It's those "extras" that give Secret Cinema its zing: live performance, music, food, dress-up – all sorts of tricks layered over a main-event screening, the details of which are kept a secret until the last moment.
(5) Their European foray this season has seen them become the first Kazakh side to be guarantee a place in the group stage of a Uefa competition – when Celtic knock them out they go into the glamorous Europa League – and that means Zing!
(6) Just a dash of juice or a sprinkling of zest can bring zing to even the most warming of winter dishes – Betty Bee's rib-sticking stew and Anna Thomson's split peas for example – but it was the fresh simplicity of Erum Gulmann's fruit salad, served with a rich, sweetly spiced Indian yoghurt, that stole my heart.
(7) It’s good to see the government has a plan for knights and dames – where’s their plan for jobs?” said opposition leader Bill Shorten, before yelling “zing” and insisting that deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek to “give him some skin”.
(8) The moment was intended to feel surreal, as though you were entering Miles’s mind, but as the door began to swing, a deep rumble erupted into a volley of zings and swishes – those troublesome tape decks – as if the scene had plunged into a battle in outer space.
(9) Since it arrived in a burst of glitter eight years ago, best friends Amy Zing and Glynfamous have turned their event from makeshift east London disco into a lavish, 3,000-capacity megamix of stage shows, live music (Little Mix!
(10) Something I think that women generally struggle with in this industry is saying, ‘Actually, I do this, and I’m good at it, and you need to recognise that.’ So reading nominations from people nominating themselves, and their friends, was really lovely, and also seeing men nominate their peers.” One of the judges, Zing Tsjeng , the UK editor of Broadly, pointed out that compared with other journalism awards a lot of younger women were being nominated.
(11) But there's evidence that the public doesn't find the line so zing-y.
(12) Illustration: Alexander Wells Markram's belief in the need for teamwork is rooted in his own experience as a brain researcher and his conviction that only neuroscience is capable of solving the deeper mysteries of how the electrical signals zinging between neurons produce consciousness and how interferences or malfunctions in those electrical channels produce disordered or "diseased" thinking.
(13) Applying some Eastern zing to the symbol of Welsh pride – the leek – it's supremely healthy, packing in spices, peppers and leeks bursting with flavour into a colourful lip-smacking dish.
(14) Chris Pratt as the rogueish leader and Zoe Saldana (green this time, not blue) zip around in cool ships saving the day, zinging each other with jokes.
(15) Press coverage zings with unlikely stories about Davis – that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA plans a "Hollywood-style heist" to spring him; that he is the linchpin of the CIA's drone programme.