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His elaborate costume, donned for a ceremonial welcoming dance called the sing-sing, also includes a dramatic wig of human hair.

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  1. intransitive verb Music To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.
  2. intransitive verb Music To vocalize songs or selections.
  3. intransitive verb Music To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.

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  • In (archaic) Quenya this is written hl , but was in the Third Age usually pronounced as l NG represents ng in finger , except finally where it was sounded as in English sing . —  The Lord of the Rings
  • His elaborate costume, donned for a ceremonial welcoming dance called the sing-sing, also includes a dramatic wig of human hair. —  Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers / Feed
  • But sing--sing softly, and they may not hear you When supper was brought, fresh straw and more firewood were granted. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
  • The Sing-sing is an antelope belonging to Western Africa. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
  • That will turn a tempest into a violet's breath Vir Ah, my love Poe O, sing--sing anything Vir Sings Great and calm, cool-bosomed blue Take me to the heart of you Not where thy blue mystery Sweeps the surface of the sea Leaving in a dying gleam Living trouble of a dream Not where loves of heaven lie Rosy 'gainst the upper sky Burning with an ardent touch Where an angel kissed too much But where sight and sound come not All of life and love forgot All of Heaven forfeited For thy deep Nirvana bed Wide and far enfolding blue Take me to the heart Her voice breaks suddenly Poe Virginia! —  Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

chant ·  melody ·  cadence ·  chorus ·  hum ·  shout ·  wail ·  refrain ·  hymn ·  peal ·  whistle ·  chatter

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sing:   sang ·  singing ·  sung ·  sings
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English singen, from Old English singan; see sengwh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English singen, syngen (preterit sang, song, plural sungen, songe, past participle sungen, songen, songe, i-sungen, i-songe), from Anglo-Saxon singan (preterit sang, plural sungon, past participle sungen), sing, chant, sound (used of the human voice, also poetical of the howling of wolves, the sound of a trumpet, etc.), =Old Saxon singan =OFries. sionga =Middle Dutch singen, Dutch zingen =Middle Low German Low German singen, sing, =Old High German singan, sing, crow, Middle High German G. singen, sing, =Icelandic syngja =Swedish sjunga =Danish synge =Gothic (Moesogothic) siggwan (for *singwan), sing, also read or intone (used of Christ's reading the Scriptures in the synagogue); perhaps orig. imitative, like ring, and used orig. of the clash of weapons, resonance of metals, and the rush of a missile through the air (although in the earliest recorded uses it denotes human utterance). If imitative, it has nothing to do with Anglo-Saxon secgan, etc., say: see say. Hence singe, song.
  2. from sing, v.
 

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