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chanting

/chant, chahnt/US // tʃænt, tʃɑnt //UK // (tʃɑːnt) //

吟诵,吟唱,吟诵声,诵经声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short, simple melody, especially one characterized by single notes to which an indefinite number of syllables are intoned, used in singing psalms, canticles, etc., in church services.
    • : a psalm, canticle, or the like, chanted or for chanting.
    • : the singing or intoning of all or portions of a liturgical service.
    • : any monotonous song.
    • : a song; singing: the chant of a bird.
    • : a monotonous intonation of the voice in speaking.
    • : a phrase, slogan, or the like, repeated rhythmically and insistently, as by a crowd.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sing to a chant, or in the manner of a chant, especially in a church service.
    • : to sing.
    • : to celebrate in song.
    • : to repeat rhythmically and insistently.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sing.
    • : to utter a chant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The heaving bodies, the smashed glass, the chants, the rants — all of those are the easily identifiable markers of civil unrest that we see when CNN covers Belarus, or apparently, Washington.

  • If he were in the familiar, comfortable confines of the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas, the cheers and chants would have made complete sense.

  • Wall smiled and wiggled his shoulders in celebration before stepping to the free throw line and completing the four-point play as chants of “M-V-P” rang down from the crowd.

  • When a building manager attempted to explain the limit, the crowd shouted him down with chants of “Let us in!”

  • In another video, the moms sang a common protest chant to the tune of an old lullaby, crooning, “Hands up, please don’t shoot me,” while facing down police in riot gear.

  • The owner of the original video of the “dead cops” chant told me it was taken on 32nd Street between 5th and Madison avenues.

  • The same night the “dead cops” chant was recorded, two police officers were attacked on the Brooklyn Bridge.

  • A car parked at a red light honked its horn in rhythm with the chant as the crowd passed in front of it.

  • Some of the marchers began to chant at the anarchists, reminding them that the movement is bigger than them.

  • Chant: Ve-al kulam, Eloha selichot, selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.

  • L'Occision des chiens est accoste de la tabagie et de ce qui suyt la tabagie, du chant et des danses.

  • Hence also the word was particularly used to signify any complaint or lament, or a chant at the burial-service.

  • Without pausing in his chant—it happened to be one of triumph—without even looking at her, the leader indicated an empty chair.

  • The pathos of the chant almost made his listener shrink, so immediate and searching was it.

  • As for sounds, the silence was unbroken save by the chant of the telegraph wires and the crying of the plovers on the waste.