singing (root: singe)

• HYPHEN: sing=ing
• COUNT in NET: 20 in 20 verses (in OT : 11 in 11 verses) (in NT : 9 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

singing, a. & n. 

 a. & n. from Sing, v.  [1913 Webster]

Singing bird. (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. -- Singing book, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. -- Singing falcon or Singing hawk. (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting. -- Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), called also midshipman; -- so called because it produces a buzzing sound with its air bladder. -- Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. -- Singing master, a man who teaches vocal music. -- Singing school, a school in which persons are instructed in singing.

THESAURUS

singing

alto, baritone, bass, beaming, beatific, beatified, bel canto, blessed, blissful, bravura, capering, cheerful, chirping, choral, choral service, choral singing, choric, coloratura, croon, crooning, dancing, dramatic, eisteddfod, falsetto, farewell performance, flushed with joy, folk singing, folk-music festival, folk-sing, gay, glad, glowing, happy, heroic, hootenanny, hum, humming, hymnal, intonation, jam session, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, liturgical, lyric, lyricism, music festival, musicale, opera festival, operatic, operatic singing, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, purring, radiant, rock festival, sacred, scat, scat singing, service of song, sing, sing-in, singfest, smiling, smirking, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, soprano, sparkling, starry-eyed, swan song, tenor, thrice happy, tonic sol-fa, treble, vocal, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling