Sing vs. Chat

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

Example: ‘"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.’;

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

(transitive) To soothe with singing.

Example: ‘to sing somebody to sleep’;

To confess under interrogation.

To make a small, shrill sound.

Example: ‘The air sings in passing through a crevice.’; ‘a singing kettle’;

To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.

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

Example: ‘The sauce really makes this lamb sing.’;

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

A gathering at which people sing songs.

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.

Example: ‘The noise of them that sing do I hear.’;

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

Example: ‘On every bough the briddes heard I sing.’; ‘Singing birds, in silver cages hung.’;

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

Example: ‘O'er his head the flying spearSang innocent, and spent its force in air.’;

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

Example: ‘Bid her . . . singOf human hope by cross event destroyed.’;

To cry out; to complain.

Example: ‘They should sing if thet they were bent.’;

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.

Example: ‘And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.’; ‘And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.’;

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

Example: ‘Arms and the man I sing.’; ‘The last, the happiest British king,Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.’;

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

To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Example: ‘I heard them singing home the bride.’;

deliver by singing;

Example: ‘Sing Christmas carols’;

produce tones with the voice;

Example: ‘She was singing while she was cooking’; ‘My brother sings very well’;

to make melodious sounds;

Example: ‘The nightingale was singing’;

make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound;

Example: ‘the kettle was singing’; ‘the bullet sang past his ear’;

divulge confidential information or secrets;

Example: ‘Be careful--his secretary talks’;

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

Example: ‘Bella sang to the baby’;

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

Example: ‘I asked her to sing some carols’;

sing in accompaniment to a song or piece of music

Example: ‘we sing along to all the songs’;

call something out loudly

Example: ‘he sang out a greeting’;

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

Example: ‘the birds were singing in the trees’;

make a high-pitched whistling or buzzing sound

Example: ‘the kettle was beginning to sing’;

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

Example: ‘a stinging slap that made my ear sing’;

act as an informer to the police

Example: ‘as soon as he got put under pressure, he sang like a canary’;

recount or celebrate in poetry or other literature

Example: ‘poetry should sing the variety of the human race’; ‘these poets sing of the American experience’;

compose poetry

Example: ‘he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme’;

an act or spell of singing

Example: ‘we asked him to come back and have a bit of a sing’; ‘a sponsored sing to pay for the theatre’;

a meeting for amateur singing.

To be engaged in informal conversation.

Example: ‘She chatted with her friend in the cafe.’; ‘I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.’;

To talk more than a few words.

Example: ‘I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.’;

(transitive) To talk of; to discuss.

Example: ‘They chatted politics for a while.’;

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Example: ‘Do you want to chat online later?’;

(uncountable) Informal conversation.

A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.

The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.

Example: ‘The Chat just made a joke about my skills.’;

An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

A louse small, parasitic insect.

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

Example: ‘To chat a while on their adventures.’;

To talk of.

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

Example: ‘Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.’;

A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

Small stones with ore.

an informal conversation

birds having a chattering call

songbirds having a chattering call

talk socially without exchanging too much information;

Example: ‘the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze’;

talk in a friendly and informal way

Example: ‘she chatted to her mother on the phone every day’;

exchange messages online in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network

Example: ‘I have chatted to a few women on the Net’;

an informal conversation

Example: ‘he dropped in for a chat’; ‘that's enough chat for tonight’;

the online exchange of messages in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network

Example: ‘online chat has been widely accepted by average Internet users’; ‘you can have four simultaneous chats online at once’;

a small Old World songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call.

any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls.