Sing vs. Chant

Singverb

(intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

Singverb

(transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.

Singverb

(transitive) To soothe with singing.

Singverb

To confess under interrogation.

Singverb

To make a small, shrill sound.

Singverb

To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.

Singverb

(intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

Singverb

(ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.

Singnoun

A gathering at which people sing songs.

Singverb

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

Singverb

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

Singverb

To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

Singverb

To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

Singverb

To cry out; to complain.

Singverb

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.

Singverb

To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

Singverb

To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

Singverb

To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Singverb

deliver by singing;

Singverb

produce tones with the voice;

Singverb

to make melodious sounds;

Singverb

make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound;

Singverb

divulge confidential information or secrets;

Singverb

make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune

Singverb

perform (a song, words, or tune) by making musical sounds with the voice

Singverb

sing in accompaniment to a song or piece of music

Singverb

call something out loudly

Singverb

(of a bird) make characteristic melodious whistling and twittering sounds

Singverb

make a high-pitched whistling or buzzing sound

Singverb

(of a person's ear) be affected with a continuous buzzing sound, especially as the after-effect of a blow or loud noise

Singverb

act as an informer to the police

Singverb

recount or celebrate in poetry or other literature

Singverb

compose poetry

Singnoun

an act or spell of singing

Singnoun

a meeting for amateur singing.

Chantverb

To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

Chantverb

To sing or intone sacred text.

Chantverb

To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

Chantverb

To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Chantnoun

Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

Chantnoun

(music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

Chantnoun

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

Chantnoun

A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

Chantverb

To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

Chantverb

To celebrate in song.

Chantverb

To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.

Chantverb

To make melody with the voice; to sing.

Chantverb

To sing, as in reciting a chant.

Chantnoun

Song; melody.

Chantnoun

A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

Chantnoun

A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.

Chantnoun

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

Chantnoun

a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone

Chantverb

recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm;

Chantverb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, ) is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant.