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From Middle English syngyng; equivalent to sing +‎ -ing.

singing (usually uncountable, plural singings)

  1. The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
  2. (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
  3. (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
  4. A ringing sound in the ears.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 13:
      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.

the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing

informal: disclosing information, or giving evidence about another

USA: a gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs

singing (comparative more singing, superlative most singing)

  1. (music) Smooth and flowing.
  2. (of a kettle etc.) Producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam.

of a kettle etc: producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam

singing

  1. present participle and gerund of sing

singing

  1. alternative form of syngyng