different between mumble vs sing

English

Etymology

From Middle English momelen, a frequentative of mum (sense 3) (“silent”). Compare German mümmeln, Middle Dutch mommelen and Dutch mompelen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?mb?l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l

Verb

mumble (third-person singular simple present mumbles, present participle mumbling, simple past and past participle mumbled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
   • 1680, Thomas Otway, The Orphan

     A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.

2. To chew something gently with closed lips.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:mutter

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mumble (plural mumbles)

1. A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bummle

English

Etymology

From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *seng??-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?ng, IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)

1. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

2. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
3. (transitive) To soothe with singing.

4. (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
   1. (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
   2. (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
5. (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
6. (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
7. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.

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8. (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

9. (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
   • 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)

     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.

Synonyms

• (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

Related terms

• song

Translations

Noun

sing (plural sings)

1. The act, or event, 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.

Derived terms

• singsong

See also

• singe

Anagrams

• IGNs, Ings, NGIs, gins, ings, nigs, sign, snig

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zingen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Verb

sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)

1. to sing

Derived terms

• gesonge (verbal adjective)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sing

1. singular imperative of singen

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i??]
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

sing (plural singek)

1. (archaic) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)

Declension

Derived terms

• singcsont

References

Further reading

• sing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC ?i??).

Noun

sing 

1. sound

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thii?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kja?. Cognates include Burmese ????? (hkyang:) and Chinese ? (ji?ng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. ginger

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thi?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Cognates include Burmese ??? (sac) and Chinese ? (x?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. tree

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45