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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sing \Sing\ (s[i^]ng), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Sung}or {Sang}; p. p. {Sung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singing}.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. ??? voice. Cf. {Singe}, {Song}.]
1. 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.
The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii. 18.
2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer.
Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. --Milton.
Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior.
5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.]
They should sing if thet they were bent. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Singing \Sing"ing\, a. & n. from {Sing}, v.
{Singing bird}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines.
{Singing book}, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes.
{Singing falcon} or {Singing hawk}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Chanting falcon}, under {Chanting}.
{Singing fish} (Zo["o]l.), a California toadfish ({Porichthys porosissimus}), called also {midshipman}; -- so called because it produces a buzzing sound with its air bladder.
{Singing flame} (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also {chemical harmonicon}.
{Singing master}, a man who teaches vocal music.
{Singing school}, a school in which persons are instructed in singing.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sing
verb
1: deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols"
2: produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well"
3: to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing"
4: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: {whistle}]
5: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: {spill the beans}, {let the cat out of the bag}, {talk}, {tattle}, {blab}, {peach}, {babble}, {babble out}, {blab out}] [ant: {keep quiet}] [also: {sung}, {singing}, {sang}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
singing
adjective: smooth and flowing [syn: {cantabile}]
noun
1: the act of singing vocal music [syn: {vocalizing}]
2: disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: {tattle}, {telling}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
singing See {sing}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "singing": alto, baritone, bass, beaming, beatific, beatified, bel canto, blessed, blissful, bravura, capering, cheerful, chirping, choral, choral service, choral singing, choric, coloratura, croon, crooning, dancing, dramatic, eisteddfod, falsetto, farewell performance, flushed with joy, folk singing, folk-music festival, folk-sing, gay, glad, glowing, happy, heroic, hootenanny, hum, humming, hymnal, intonation, jam session, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, liturgical, lyric, lyricism, music festival, musicale, opera festival, operatic, operatic singing, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, purring, radiant, rock festival, sacred, scat, scat singing, service of song, sing, sing-in, singfest, smiling, smirking, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, soprano, sparkling, starry-eyed, swan song, tenor, thrice happy, tonic sol-fa, treble, vocal, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling
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