singing

plural singings

1. uncountableusuallyThe act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
2. informaluncountableusuallyDisclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
3. USuncountableusuallyA gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
4. uncountableusuallyA ringing sound in the ears.

   1 more example

   I was aware that some one, apparently at a vast distance, was calling me by my Christian name. [...] In the short space it took to cover the road between the path from Hamilton's shop and the first plank of the Combermere Bridge I had thought over half-a-dozen people who might have committed such a solecism, and had eventually decided that it must have been some singing in my ears.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 13

comparative more singing · superlative most singing

1. entertainmentSmooth and flowing.
2. Producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sing