Sing, Singe

ingers sing (verb).

Singers make a living by singing.

Companies singe (verb).

When a company singes, it means it is scorched, burned or in a bad phase of business.

Sing functions as a noun and verb. As a verb, sing means to utter sounds, and sounds of words that are tuneful, melodious and musical.

Wind can make melodious humming; kettle can make whistling sound. For the ears, sing means being affected with a buzzing sound. The variants of the verb sing are: sings, singing and sang. The past tense and past participle of sing are: sang and sung (sing-sang-sung).

Informally, sing means when someone turns as an informer, a confessor.

Sing as a noun refers to the act of singing; a spell of voicing a melodious tune. Sing along is singing with other singers or to a piece of music.

The sound of music has great songs…

Sing out means to call out for someone, to draw the attention of someone by calling loudly.

Sing the praises of somebody or something refers to praising, applauding. Sing up means sing more loudly.

The derivatives of sing are singable (adjective), singer (noun), singingly (adverb) and singalong (noun).

Singalong, or singalong evening, or singalong chorus is a tune to which one can sing along with others.

Note that sing is also an abbreviation for ‘singular’.

Singeth and singest are archaic words. Singeth refers to third-person singular of the verb ‘sing’ (They singeth); and third person singular of singe. But singest is a second-person singular (he singest) and present form of sing.

Singer-songwriter is the person who sings and writes songs professionally.

Singer (vocalist, vocaliser) refers to both male and female singers but singeress is the female equivalent of a singer.

Issac Merrit Singer is the inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine named as Singer (trade name). Issac Bashevis Singerr (1904-1991) wrote Yiddish stories and novels.

Sing forms several compound words and phrases: singing bowl (a bronze bell), singing fish (toadfish), singing flame (hydrogen or coal gas), singing cowboy (singing cowboy, a genre of Western country music).

Singe functions as a noun and verb.

Singe as a verb refers to burn lightly, to burn superficially; singe means to burn the bristle of the carcass of a pig or fowl (chicken, hen, cockerel) so that it is ready for cooking.

When something is singed it means it is scorched, blackened or charred, seared, smolder or smoulder, flame up and burn up. Few singe their eyebrows (a cosmetic treatment of burning the unwanted eyebrows lightly or superficially).

By: Kovuuri G Reddy