sing

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act, or event, of singing songs.
    — I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.
  2. Any sound likened to human singing.
    — heard the unmistakable twang of bowstrings against bracers, the sing of a long-bow volley, and made for the door
动词 v.
  1. To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. intransitive
    — "I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
  2. To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique. intransitive
  3. To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. transitive
    — sing a lullaby
  4. To soothe with singing. transitive
    — to sing somebody to sleep
  5. Of birds, to vocalise:; To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate. ambitransitive
  6. Of birds, to vocalise:; To produce any type of melodious vocalisation. ambitransitive,literary
    — ⁠I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, ⁠For now her little ones have ranged; ⁠And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away.
  7. To rejoice
    — My heart was singing.
  8. To confess under interrogation. intransitive,slang
  9. To make a small, shrill sound. intransitive
    — The air sings in passing through a crevice.
  10. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry; to praise. ambitransitive
    — Who would not ſing for Lycidas? he knew / Himſelf to ſing, and build the lofty rhyme.
  11. To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent. intransitive
    — The sauce really makes this lamb sing.
  12. To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung. ergative
    — No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.
  13. In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse. Australia
    — ‘He says the Walcott Inlet men have sung him, and this tribe will meet the Walcott men and fight when the big walk-about comes, after the peanut season.’
  14. To yell or shout. archaic,slang
    — I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
sing
反义词
lip-sync lip sync mime mouth
上位词
utter vocalize
下位词
belt belt out carol chant croon hymn intonate intone lilt scat serenade warble yodel
衍生词
all-singing all-dancing all-singing-and-dancing besing countersing foresing forsing go sing mis-sing New Guinea singing dog outsing oversing overtone singing part singing resing scat singing sight sing singability singable sing a different tune singalong sing along sing-along singback singer sing for one's supper sing from the same hymnal sing from the same hymnbook sing from the same hymn sheet singing singing chambermaid singing cowboy singing dog singing fish singing flame singing girl singing ground singing hinny singing sand singing saw singing soprano singing telegram singing voice sing Kumbaya sing like a bird sing like a canary sing off the same hymn sheet sing out sing small sing soprano singspiration singster sing the praises sing the praises of sing the same tune sing up throat singing undersing unsing singsong filksing sing-in singjay sing-off
相关词
song jook-sing singe sing-sing
并列词
bawl holler howl hum mouthe murmur speak shout talk whisper whistle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese, and Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”).
词源 2
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese, and Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”).
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