What is the difference between sing and song?
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To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
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
, 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.
(slang) To confess under interrogation.
To make a small, shrill sound.
* Alexander Pope
To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
* Prior
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)
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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, title= (label) Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:This subject for heroic song .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
*:The soldier's pay is a song .
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.
Song is a related term of sing.
As nouns the difference between sing and song
is that sing is a gathering for the purpose of singing songs while song is a musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.As a verb sing
is to produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.As a proper noun Song is
a former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.sing
English
Verb
- "I really want to sing in the school choir." said Vera .
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- to sing somebody to sleep
- The air sings in passing through a crevice.
- O'er his head the flying spear / Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
- 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 praisesSee also
* singeNoun
(en noun)- 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.
song
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(wikipedia song)Noun
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,