SING


Meaning of SING in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bird sings (= makes musical sounds )

I woke up to hear the birds singing outside.

play/sing in a band (= be a musician or singer in a band )

Budd played in a rock band.

sang unaccompanied

Lizzie sang unaccompanied .

sing a melody

She sang the melodies as though she loved them.

sing a song

He started singing a little song.

sing hymns

He liked to sing hymns as he worked.

sing/rock/lull sb to sleep (= make someone sleep by singing etc )

She was usually able to rock the baby back to sleep quite quickly.

sings soprano

She sings soprano .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

But I know more about singing than your father will ever know.

She has suffered, but now she has much to sing about .

The Arts: Suitable subjects to sing about ?

C.; they were sung about in Sumerian lullabies.

And that's something that no-one in London really wants to sing about .

They also sang about their own lives and in their own accents so it became really unique.

The girl asks me what the woman is singing about .

It is time to give the angels something to sing about .

along

You can also sing along to the songs if you wish.

She played piano, and sang , and we all tried to sing along .

He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played.

A possible suitor wearing a Walkman sang along intermittently much louder than he realized.

The audience waved, swayed and sang along enthusiastically, as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him.

The congregation was singing along vigorously and clapping.

One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar, but he turned out to be the roadie.

I like songs that you can sing along to, and you can remember.

still

On the other side of the castle they were still singing .

Peasant women still sing in this way.

As we walked back down the track, the nightingale was still singing .

The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars.

There are lots of stories about him and people still sing songs about him - folk songs and such.

Again she tilted her head at the audience, still singing .

Children still sing skipping songs about soggy semolina though I can't remember semolina being served for over twenty years.

He was still singing when the switchboard rang and Schramm was connected with Schaefer.

■ NOUN

anthem

Jeffrey Osborne will come back to sing the national anthem .

Even I wouldn't realise until they opened their mouths - which was only to sing the malai national anthem .

Some memorable moments also have come during the singing of the national anthem .

Deputies sang the national anthem when the votes reached the total of 336 required for impeachment.

A woman called to say she wanted the fans to sing the national anthem .

bird

The sun shone, the birds sang , and in every corner of the garden there was something interesting to look at.

Out of sight somewhere a bird was singing , and the song seemed wrong and incurious to him.

Millions of small birds now sing in the hedges and spinneys.

She reached the house, where a bird in a cage sang to her to turn back.

The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars.

Sun shining, birds singing , me propped up on the pillows idly chatting.

His own wish was to be buried in the old-fashioned way, with birds singing and roses blooming over him.

choir

The Berlin Radio Choir sings beautifully.

Or the Morgan State University Choir singing spirituals?

For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil.

At that time we choir boys sang the whole of Evensong every night of the week.

And the tower is the centre of attention every May morning when the choir sings out across the rooftops.

I was a member of the thousand-voice choir that sang at the opening of the Gladstone Dock in April, 1913.

You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other.

Many of them welcome parish or other choirs to sing their services.

dance

He says they get to sing and dance , it's fun.

I have also seen them sing and dance .

We like to sing and dance , we like to combine both of them.

This rat wanted to eat ropes the way Gene Kelly wanted to sing and dance .

They will drink, shout, sing and dance .

Will mankind, even under advanced capitalism, let alone any future more liberated society, ever cease to sing and dance ?

Publicity officer Elizabeth Cooper said the character does not have to sing or dance .

heart

I pitched into the chores with a light heart , singing to myself as I worked.

Show me any variation you like, her heart was singing .

He understood now all those clichés about hearts singing , feeling ten feet high, walking on air, cloud nine.

What is that stirs in your heart as you sing of the Angels from the realms of Glory?

hymn

The friar could have sworn that Sir John was singing a hymn or a song under his breath.

J., singing hymns and gospels with her family.

Christians who want to sing their hymns but can't be bothered to get involved in their local church.

The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.

Mum is singing along with the last hymn .

Then, as the condemned man sang hymns with a chaplain, he bowed his head and wept.

There, in predictable manner, we sing our hymns and say our prayers.

At the foot of the Piccadilly Line escalator at Leicester Square a drunk man squatted, singing hymns .

music

We, unfortunately, worked very little together, and when we did I mainly sang his music or his arrangements.

Everyone on the packed stage is singing the most complex music at speeds that are almost unreasonable.

He had to dance, and sing , and play music .

I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general.

praises

He contemplated with relish large retinues of clients singing the praises of their patrons.

You should be a fly on the wall and hear him sing your praises .

Anglers sing the praises of Loch Assynt with similar fervour to that expressed by Norman MacCaig.

I can sing my own praises until the first scandal.

And it was women who sang its praises .

Money out of my pocket was money in the pocket of the man who has sung my praises .

After Shine On had won at York, the papers had sung her praises .

Whereupon Mrs Dole sang the praises of private charity.

song

If I heard a new song I had to sing it.

Since then, the official anthem has had a solid place at the Super Bowl, although sometimes both songs are sung .

Once more politics was tempted by the song the sirens sang .

A bonfire burns, songs are sung , and breakfast is served.

There would be frequent visits, more songs to be sung , perhaps a few arguments on the way, but nothing vital.

I like songs that you can sing along to, and you can remember.

A song thrush sang its repetitive phrases from the top of an oak tree.

No man has lived the songs he sang like George Jones.

top

I used to dance round them and sing at the top of my voice.

tune

It is sung to the tune of Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Now he is singing a different tune .

They were singers and they couldn't sing a note in tune .

Harriet found Paul teasing Ben: asking him to sing a tune , then taunting him.

Today, he sings his classic tunes and hands out spiritual books at the end.

You're singing a different tune now from the one you sang after you'd left her behind and got yourself arrested.

Throughout a mediocre regular season, the Suns have continually sung the same tune .

voice

She was a confident rocker with a bluesy voice and loved to sing , loved the sensation of being possessed.

This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs.

The voice sings along with the song, then turns into a hum.

Her lovely face in the candlelight, the soft pitch of her voice as she sang him to sleep.

There is a voice singing the blues.

Charity woke to a warbling voice singing happily.

I am leaving out Lee had a beautiful voice and sang beautifully at age six in Covington, Louisiana.

■ VERB

begin

Bird's profits began to sing .

The trio began to sing , but the din in the room made it impossible to hear.

I was beginning to feel sleepy and I began to sing , softly, to myself.

At last Armand filled his little body to bursting and opened wide his mouth and began to sing .

As soon as he was out of sight he began to sing , very loudly.

We... began to sing .

He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played.

When everything was ready, the two parties faced each other across the field and began to sing .

hear

Every morning she could hear them singing their mantras with the children.

You should be a fly on the wall and hear him sing your praises.

My first acquaintance with her was when I heard her sing .

In the slums you can now hear the children singing .

He hears me singing , and so learns where I am imprisoned ....

As I was standing before the sink,, I heard Edusha singing a recently popular song.

Then she heard him singing in the bathroom, sounding unbelievably cheerful.

But this morning I hear McMurphy out there in the latrine as I come out of the covers. Hear him singing !

play

We played and sang together, and read aloud a little of the Faerie Queene.

She played piano, and sang , and we all tried to sing along.

If only he could have been with Dinah at this hour, playing while she sang !

There was no limit to his power when he played and sang .

She played and sang so plaintively that I almost wept, the song was so sad.

How different they were without her, how they laughed and played and urinated and sang .

With Donald Crubach's help, he played the harp and sang , and started again to compose songs and poems.

Students could learn how to play folk guitar or sing and perform in opera.

start

Natalie: I started singing when I was four-doing Elvis impersonations.

He started to sing: Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me; starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.

There was something rather eerie about people turning up unexpectedly around the door and starting to sing .

Q: At what age did you start singing ?

Male speaker I can't wait to start singing again.

Even Jess, always so quiet, so focused, so self-contained, starts singing .

Grimly he started to sing an old war-song, to lift the weight that lay on them all.

As I got older, we started singing as a trio with my daddy.

stop

And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant.

When the canaries stopped singing , the miners knew it was time to get out of there.

Despite these optimistic thoughts, and his excitement, Ybreska stopped singing abruptly as he began to walk along the track.

We stopped singing and took a step apart.

Suddenly he stopped singing and went nearer to the window.

A few minutes later I started to leave, and he stopped me to sing me a song.

The rains stopped , the birds sang , and we were spared.

For a moment the birds in the trees outside stopped singing .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be singing from the same hymn book/sheet

burst out laughing/crying/singing etc

At that point I burst out laughing.

Charles didn't respond and after a frozen pause, she collapsed into a chair and burst out crying.

He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing - until he burst out laughing.

I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat.

I said and burst out crying.

Julie, surprised, burst out laughing.

The whole group bursts out laughing.

The woman and children burst out laughing again, getting up from the table and crowding round me.

cry/sing etc your heart out

After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.

Anyway, then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out.

For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico - I was crying.

March 7: I cried my heart out last night after seeing the movie High Tide.

She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.

We would march along in step, doing eighty-eight paces to the minute, singing our hearts out.

dance/sing/cook etc up a storm

She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.

They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.

it's not over until the fat lady sings

sing/shout at the top of your voice

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Sing along if you know the words.

All the family sang 'Happy Birthday' as Dad came in.

Anyone who could play an instrument or sing in tune was enlisted to take part in the concert.

Beth ran toward the stream that sang on the other side of the woods.

Come on, David, sing us a song!

Daryl sang in his high school choir.

I could hear someone singing downstairs.

Pretty soon, Vinnie was singing like a canary.

She sat in a corner, singing softly to her baby.

Sophie sings in the church choir.

They sat together and sang songs.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A tall boy in a shrunk-up ivory sweater strolled by, hands in his pockets, singing.

But the organ music was lovely, although some of the vocalists sang rather modern stuff, a bit like rock and roll.

He and Stefan had worked out a performance programme so that Ingrid wouldn't have to sing two big roles on consecutive nights.

Now volleys of bird song are erupting from all around, with perhaps ten or more birds singing at once.

Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.

She played and sang so plaintively that I almost wept, the song was so sad.

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