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# sing

«sing» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make music with your voice, using words or tunes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (sing, sings, sang, singing, sung)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To sing means to make music with your voice, using words or tunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#m1)

2) Birds sing when they make musical calls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#m2)

3) Things like a kettle or the wind can «sing» when they make a high, musical sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#m3)

4) To sing someone's praises means to praise them a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons you sing songs, notes and rounds; in stories singing shows happiness or celebration. Phrases: «sing along», «sing a song», «sing in a choir», «sing out of tune», «sing Happy Birthday», «sing to sleep».

### examples

- We sing in the school choir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x1)
- She sang «Happy Birthday» to her dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x2)
- The birds were singing in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x3)
- Can you sing along to this song? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x4)
- He has sung in three concerts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x5)
- Mum sang the baby to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x6)
- The kettle began to sing on the stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x7)
- My teacher always sings our praises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/#x8)

### note

Irregular: sing – sang – sung (I sang yesterday; I have sung). Trap: «singed» is the past of «singe» (burn lightly), not of sing. A singer is a person who sings. «Sing» and «song»: you sing a song.

### In the corpora

- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)
- [One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/10/)
- [Nerves make breath short and the voice shaky, even in good singers; slow breathing before singing helps calm the voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/5/)
- [Harmony means singing different notes at the same time that sound good together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/11/)
- [Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; singers rest, drink water and avoid shouting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.