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Chirping vs Sing - What's the difference?

chirping | sing |

As verbs the difference between chirping and sing

is that chirping is present participle of lang=en while sing is to produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

As nouns the difference between chirping and sing

is that chirping is an instance of chirping while sing is a gathering for the purpose of singing songs.

chirping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 11, Richard Lourie, Displaced Minds, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. }}

    sing

    English

    Verb

  • To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
    • "I really want to sing in the school choir." said Vera .
  • To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • To soothe with singing.
    • to sing somebody to sleep
  • (slang) To confess under interrogation.
  • To make a small, shrill sound.
    • The air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • O'er his head the flying spear / Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
  • To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
  • * Prior
    • Bid her sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
    (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * besing * sing along / sing-along * singer * sing from the same hymnbook * singing cowboy * sing out * singsong * sing soprano * sing the praises

    Related terms

    * song

    See also

    * singe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.
  • * 2002 , Martha Mizell Puckett, ?Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom (page 198)
    • Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.

    Anagrams

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