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v.i.1. to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.2. to perform a song or voice composition: She promised to sing for us.3. to produce melodious sounds, usually high in pitch, as certain birds, insects, etc.: The nightingale sang in the tree.4. to compose poetry: Keats sang briefly but gloriously.5. to tell about or praise someone or something in verse or song: He sang of the warrior's prowess.6. to admit of being sung, as verses: This lyric sings well.7. to give out a continuous ringing, whistling, murmuring, burbling, or other euphonious sound, as a teakettle or a brook.8. to make a short whistling, ringing, or whizzing sound: The bullet sang past his ear.9. (of an electrical amplifying system) to produce an undesired self-sustained oscillation.10. to have the sensation of a ringing or humming sound, as the ears.11. Slang. to confess or act as an informer; squeal.v.t.12. to utter with musical modulations of the voice, as a song.13. to escort or accompany with singing.14. to proclaim enthusiastically.15. to bring, send, put, etc., with or by singing: She sang the baby to sleep.16. to chant or intone: to sing mass.17. to tell or praise in verse or song.18. sing out, Informal. to call in a loud voice; shout: They lost their way in the cavern and sang out for help.n.19. the act or performance of singing.20. a gathering or meeting of persons for the purpose of singing: a community sing.21. a singing, ringing, or whistling sound, as of a bullet.[bef. 900; ME singen, OE singan; c. D zingen, G singen, ON syngva, Goth siggwan]
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Universalium. 2010.
