| Meaning | produce tones with the voice. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s to somebody |
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| Model | Sam and Sue sing |
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| Examples | - "She was singing while she was cooking"
- "My brother sings very well"
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| Category | music | musical activity (singing / singing / singing or whistling etc.) |
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| Narrower | belt out, belt | sing loudly and forcefully |
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| chant, intone, intonate, cantillate | recite with musical intonation |
| choir, chorus | sing in a choir |
| croon | sing softly |
| descant | sing in descant |
| descant on | sing a descant on a main tune or melody |
| harmonize, harmonise | sing or play in harmony |
| hum | sing with closed lips |
| minstrel | celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels |
| place | sing a note with the correct pitch |
| psalm | sing or celebrate in psalms |
| sing | deliver by singing |
| sing along | sing with a choir or an orchestra |
| solmizate | sing using syllables like 'do', 're' and 'mi' to represent the tones of the scale |
| treble | sing treble |
| troll | sing loudly and without inhibition |
| tweedle, chirp | sing in modulation |
| vocalize, vocalise | sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel |
| warble, trill, quaver | sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below |
| yodel, warble, descant | sing by changing register |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
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| Spanish | cantar |
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| Catalan | cantar |
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| Nouns | singer | a person who sings |
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| singing | the act of singing / singing vocal music |
| song | the act of singing / singing |
| song | a short musical composition with words |
