Definition of Sing

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Definition of Sing

Sing

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.

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

Ti cry out; to complain.

To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

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Sing Quotations

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall

Sing Translations

sing in Afrikaans is sing
sing in Danish is synge
sing in Dutch is zingen, bezingen
sing in Finnish is laulaa
sing in French is chanter, chantent, chantons, zinzinuler, chantez
sing in German is singen
sing in Italian is cantare
sing in Norwegian is synge
sing in Portuguese is cante, cantar
sing in Spanish is cantar
sing in Swedish is sjunga

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