Play and Sing

Play

Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.

Sing and play are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sing" instead a verb "Play".

Sing

Sing verb - To produce musical sounds with the voice.
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Synonyms for Sing

Play and sing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a verb "Sing".

Nearby Words: singing, singer, singe, singed, singable

Common collocations

part play part sing part
parts play parts sing parts
time play time sing time
way play way sing way
Other words: lead, bit, theme, music, song, tune, guitar, instruments, songs, versions.

Both words in one sentence

  • Fan Fic / Hotspring Souls! Great Balls of Fire: The Slayer of Demons wants to join the Hunter's band but doesn't know how to sing or play any instruments, so he just handles the pyrotechnics instead.
  • Anime / Doraemon And in the 2005 remakes, one of the special episode involves combining both of their "talents" to defeat the Dracula Robot in the future where they play/sing for the ENTIRE earth!
  • The tonic chord formed in this mode is diminished, so it's hard to sing or play in.
    Source: Scales
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