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sing
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)
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
- (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- (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.
- 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)
Synonyms
- (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out
Derived terms
Related terms
- song
Translations
Noun
sing (plural sings)
- 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.
- 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:
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)
- to sing
Derived terms
- gesonge (verbal adjective)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
sing
- singular imperative of singen
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??i??]
- Rhymes: -i??
Noun
sing (plural singek)
- (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
- 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
- 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
- tree
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45
sing From the web:
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- what singers died in 2020
- what singer died recently
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- what singer has the most octaves
- what singer am i
click
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?k, IPA(key): /kl?k/, [k?l??k]
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophones: clique, klick
Etymology 1
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).
Noun
click (plural clicks)
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- tsk is a click in English.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- With the right software you can program your mouse to do a double click with a single click (but that's cheating)
- (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- 1943, Chilton's Jewelers' Circular
- A wheel, with teeth in which a click or pawl engages to prevent backward motion; or the same with addition of another click through which power is imparted at intervals to move the wheel.
- 1943, Chilton's Jewelers' Circular
Translations
Verb
click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)
- (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall
- [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Owl
- when merry milkmaids click the latch
- 1918, The Cosmopolitan (volume 66, page 61)
- His voice rose in a clacking chatter; his long whip curled over the backs of the dogs, and, eager for the thrill of the trail, the malemiuts leaped out in a straight tawny line, whimpering and whining and clicking their jaws […]
- 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall
- (transitive, computing, transitive, intransitive) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
- From the home page, click through to the Products section.
- (intransitive) To emit a click.
- He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked.
- (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
- Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- (intransitive) To get on well.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
- (dated, intransitive) To tick.
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
- the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
- (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- 2014, Dhisti Desai, Innocent Desire (page 107)
- Brad immediately took out his Iphone[sic] and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.
- 2014, Dhisti Desai, Innocent Desire (page 107)
- (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
- (intransitive, India) (of a film) To be successful at the box office.
Usage notes
Style guides for technical writers generally recommend using click transitively (for example: click the button), but intransitive use with on (click on the icon) is also widespread. The style guides do accept the use of in in phrases like click in the field.
Translations
Interjection
click
- The sound of a click.
- Click! The door opened.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- click one's fingers
- cliché
See also
- ejective
- tsk, tsk tsk
Etymology 2
Noun
click (plural clicks)
- Alternative spelling of klick
Etymology 3
From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).
Noun
click (plural clicks)
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- (Britain, dialect) The latch of a door.
Etymology 4
From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *cl??an, *cl??an, a byform of cly??an (“to clutch”). More at clutch.
Verb
click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)
- (obsolete) To snatch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 5
Noun
click (plural clicks)
- (US) Misspelling of clique.
Verb
click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)
- (US) Misspelling of clique.
Italian
Noun
click m (invariable)
- Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)
Spanish
Noun
click m (plural clicks)
- Misspelling of clic.
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