English words for 'To intone (sing).'
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verb
noun
- A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
verb
noun
- (uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
- (countable) A karaoke parlour.
- (exercise) An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
- (countable) A karaoke session.
- singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
noun
- the act of singing vocal music
- The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
- A ringing sound in the ears.
- (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
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verb
verb
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verb
adj
noun
noun
- the act of singing
- The act or art of singing.
- a short musical composition with words
- a distinctive or characteristic sound
- a very small sum
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- (music) A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- (by extension) Any musical composition.
- (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
noun
- the act of singing
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
verb
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
- utter in unison
- sing in a choir
noun
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
- a body of dancers or singers who perform together
- a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a group of people assembled to sing together
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
verb
- (intransitive) To begin to sing or play music.
- (chiefly US, transitive, idiomatic) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, music) To tune one's instrument in preparation for performance.
- (intransitive) To make preparations for vigorous exercise; to warm up.
- (transitive) To make adjustments (to an engine or bicycle drivetrain) in order to improve its performance.
- adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)
- adjust for (better) functioning
verb
- To sing or intone sacred text.
- To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
- To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
- recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
noun
- A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
- Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
- (music) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
- (music, Anglicanism) A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.
- Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
adj
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- full of the sound of voices
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Synonym of expressive.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
noun
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
verb
noun
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- two items of the same kind
verb
noun
- (psychiatry) A fugue state.
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
- (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
noun
- Speaking or singing.
- (linguistics) The vowel sounds used in a language.
- (linguistics) The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- the system of vowels used in a particular language
noun
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
adj
- Lyrical.
- Of or relating to musical drama and opera.
- Having a light singing voice of modest range.
- Melodious.
- Of or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp).
- Of or relating to a writer of such poetry.
- (poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style.
- used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
- of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
- relating to or being musical drama
- expressing deep emotion
noun
verb
noun
- Any similar process of singeing.
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- (manufacturing, historical) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
- the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- the process of interacting with gas
verb
verb
- (transitive, music) To sing in parts.
- (transitive) To arrange in working order.
- (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
- (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
- (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- create (as an entity)
- form or join a union
- cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
- bring order and organization to
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort
verb
- begin to play or sing
- utter a shrill cry
- (intransitive) To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument.
- (intransitive) To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly.
- (transitive, rare) To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument.
- (intransitive, of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously.
verb
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
noun
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
verb
noun
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
- (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale
verb
noun
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
verb
- bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
- sing or play in harmony
- write a harmony for
- bring into consonance or accord
- go together
- bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously
- (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.
- (intransitive, music) To play or sing in harmony.
- (transitive, music) To provide parts to.
- (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
- (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
verb
- sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
- sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- (intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
- (transitive) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
- (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
- (transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.
noun
- a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
- The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.
- A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitive) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
- (Australia) In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
- (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- deliver by singing
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- produce tones with the voice
- to make melodious sounds
noun
noun
- the act of singing vocal music
- The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
- A ringing sound in the ears.
- (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of singing
- The act or art of singing.
- a short musical composition with words
- a distinctive or characteristic sound
- a very small sum
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- (music) A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- (by extension) Any musical composition.
- (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
noun
- the act of singing
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
adj
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- full of the sound of voices
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Synonym of expressive.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
noun
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
noun
- Speaking or singing.
- (linguistics) The vowel sounds used in a language.
- (linguistics) The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- the system of vowels used in a particular language
noun
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
noun
- Any similar process of singeing.
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- (manufacturing, historical) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
- the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- the process of interacting with gas
verb
verb
noun
- A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
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- (uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
- (countable) A karaoke parlour.
- (exercise) An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
- (countable) A karaoke session.
- singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
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- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
- utter in unison
- sing in a choir
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- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
- a body of dancers or singers who perform together
- a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a group of people assembled to sing together
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
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- (intransitive) To begin to sing or play music.
- (chiefly US, transitive, idiomatic) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, music) To tune one's instrument in preparation for performance.
- (intransitive) To make preparations for vigorous exercise; to warm up.
- (transitive) To make adjustments (to an engine or bicycle drivetrain) in order to improve its performance.
- adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)
- adjust for (better) functioning
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- To sing or intone sacred text.
- To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
- To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
- recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
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- A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
- Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
- (music) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
- (music, Anglicanism) A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.
- Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
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- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- two items of the same kind
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- (psychiatry) A fugue state.
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
- (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
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- (transitive, music) To sing in parts.
- (transitive) To arrange in working order.
- (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
- (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
- (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- create (as an entity)
- form or join a union
- cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
- bring order and organization to
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort
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- begin to play or sing
- utter a shrill cry
- (intransitive) To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument.
- (intransitive) To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly.
- (transitive, rare) To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument.
- (intransitive, of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously.
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- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
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- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
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- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
- (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale
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- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
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- bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
- sing or play in harmony
- write a harmony for
- bring into consonance or accord
- go together
- bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously
- (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.
- (intransitive, music) To play or sing in harmony.
- (transitive, music) To provide parts to.
- (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
- (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
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- sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
- sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- (intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
- (transitive) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
- (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
- (transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.
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- a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
- The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.
- A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.
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- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitive) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
- (Australia) In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
- (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- deliver by singing
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- produce tones with the voice
- to make melodious sounds
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- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- full of the sound of voices
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Synonym of expressive.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
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- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
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- Lyrical.
- Of or relating to musical drama and opera.
- Having a light singing voice of modest range.
- Melodious.
- Of or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp).
- Of or relating to a writer of such poetry.
- (poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style.
- used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
- of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
- relating to or being musical drama
- expressing deep emotion