Word Finder - singing

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To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

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"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.

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To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.

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To soothe with singing.

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to sing somebody to sleep

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To confess under interrogation.

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To make a small, shrill sound.

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The air sings in passing through a crevice.

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To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.

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To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

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The sauce really makes this lamb sing.

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To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.

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The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.

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Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.

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A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.

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Smooth and flowing.

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(of a kettle etc.) Producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam.

My heart is singing for joy this morning.

We'll leave the singing to you.

The "singing lessons" were to strengthen her voice.

She was not merely singing; she was experiencing the music.

Singing a different tune now, are we?

The small birds were singing softly.

Although so-called singing birds exist in tolerable numbers, those worthy of the name of songster are few.

When singing, Elisabeth chose music that expressed her feelings for Jackson.

I hummed a tune I remembered my mother singing to me as I strolled to the barn to slay the lying witch-bitch who thought she'd tricked.

Then you'd better start singing out.

The whole town is singing their praises and I don't even know them!

When the president's address had been duly applauded, there followed the singing of hymns ancient and modern.

And after this a pervigilium, celebrated with antiphonal and joint singing on the part of men and women and with choral dancing in imitation of Moses and Miriam at the Red Sea.

They are fond of singing and dancing, and are a gentle-mannered and hospitable folk.

These flew away, leaving their cup at the water's edge, and singing "If that glass either break or fall, Farewell to the luck of Eden Hall."

The poet Marc Antonia Flaminio, for instance, congratulates himself in pretty Latin verses on her singing his poems.

I enjoy my singing lessons with Dr. Humason more than I can say.

The commander-in-chief made a sign that the men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing soldier and the gay and smartly marching men.

Why carry you off as if you were some gypsy singing girl?...

The singing did not sound loud under the open sky.

Farnell refers to the ancient association between the healing craft and the singing of spells, and says that it is impossible to decide which is the original sense.

One day he gave a banquet to his friends, and after it they sallied forth with torches, singing through the streets, Francis being crowned with garlands as the king of the revellers; after a time they missed him, and on retracing their steps they found him in a trance or reverie, a permanently altered man.

He retained through life his early love of song, and during his last illness he passed much of his time in singing.

The simplex is worn on Good Friday, and at masses for the dead; also at the blessing of the candles at Candlemas, the singing of the absolution at the coffin, and the solemn investiture with the pallium.

This antiphon received the name either because it was sung on the steps of the altar or while the deacon was mounting the steps of the ambo for the reading or singing of the Gospel.

Cranes, partridges and varieties of singing birds abound.

In 18 3 0 there were twelve Meistersinger alive in Ulm, but in 1839 the four survivors formally made over their insignia and gild property to a modern singing society and closed the record of the Meistergesang in Germany.

The meetings took place either in the Rathaus, or town hall, or, when they were held - as was usually the case - on Sunday, in the church; and three times a year, at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas, special festivals and singing competitions were instituted.

A halt was made at the altars and temples, where the Salii, singing a special chant, danced a war dance.

The peasants are famous for their devotion to the Roman Catholic religion, their fervent loyalty to the House of Austria, their excellent marksmanship, and their love of singing and music, the zither being the national instrument.

At his first appearance in history Guido was a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Pomposa, and it was there that he taught singing and invented his educational method, by means of which, according to his own statement, a pupil might learn within five months what formerly it would have taken him ten years to acquire.

Achilles withdrew in wrath to his tent, where he consoled himself with music and singing, and refused to take any further part in the war.

Interesting results are obtained by singing the different vowels into a funnel substituted for the resonator in the figure.

The other is then made to sing and frequently the first will be set singing also.

The Mantis is defeated in an encounter with a cat which happened to be singing a song about a lynx.

I remember him once singing a snatch from the bothy ballad The Dying Ploughboy.

Four or five priests and as many choristers were singing Miserere before the high altar when I went in.

Why did he then appoint the ordinances of preaching, prayer, singing of psalms, baptism, and the Lord's supper?

A male cettis warbler was singing constantly, looks like he's going to try again here this year.

They are almost wordless; human voice, voicing and singing, plays the star role.

Around the time of maximum partiality there was much singing from birds including wrens, robins and a blackcap.

It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.

Fearing that they would be light-headed for want of food and also sleep, owing to "the savages' barbarous singing, (for they use to sing themselves asleep,)" and that they might get home while they had strength to travel, they departed.

Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.

I hear a song sparrow singing from the bushes on the shore,--olit, olit, olit,--chip, chip, chip, che char,--che wiss, wiss, wiss.

How she is singing today!

The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies--frightening and funny--bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.

Laughter and singing in particular seemed to her like a blasphemy, in face of her sorrow.

She will soon be singing and frolicking about.

Tears suddenly rose in her eyes, she turned away, lifted her music before her eyes, began singing again, and again began walking up and down the room.