singer

{i} family name; Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), United States novelist and writer of short stories in the Yiddish language (born in Poland), winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in literature

A machine for singeing cloth

a person who sings

A singer is a person who sings, especially as a job. My mother was a singer in a dance band. Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the great opera singers of the century. American inventor and manufacturer who patented (1851) a sewing machine capable of making continuous stitches. someone who sings pop/opera/folk etc singer. master singer Sargent John Singer Singer NV Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Merritt

{i} one who sings, one who utters words melodiously; songbird; poet; informer (Slang); person or thing that singes or scorches

One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing

United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)

United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)

One employed to singe cloth

a person who sings United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)

One who, or that which, singes

{i} vocalist

singer-songwriter

A person who both sings and composes, especially if they perform their own compositions

Singer NV

U.S. sewing-machine manufacturer. The company began in 1851, when Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) patented the first practical sewing machine for domestic use. By 1860 I.M. Singer & Co. was the largest maker of sewing machines in the world. In 1863 its business was taken over by the newly incorporated Singer Manufacturing Co. The company began mass-producing domestic electric machines in 1910 and pioneered marketing innovations such as the installment plan. It later expanded into power tools, floor-care products, furniture, and electronics; it adopted the name Singer Co. in 1963. Its sewing-machine and furniture operations were spun off into a separate company, SSMC Inc., in 1986. Two years later it was the subject of a hostile takeover by investor Paul Bilzerian, who in 1989 sold Singer's assets to Semi-Tech, a Hong Kong company controlled by investor James Henry Ting. Still one of the world's largest sewing-machine manufacturers, the company declared bankruptcy in 1999 and was reorganized as Singer NV in 2000

singer in a choir

member of a chorus, member of a singing group

singer-songwriter

A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs. Twenty years ago singer-songwriter John Prine released his first album. someone who writes songs and sings them

carol singer

a person, often one of a group, who sings carols, especially at Christmas

folk singer

Alternative spelling of folksinger, someone who sings folk music

opera singer

Someone who sings opera professionally

playback singer

A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially in Bollywood musicals

sing

To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization

sing

A gathering for the purpose of singing songs

sing

To produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice

I really want to sing in the school choir. said Vera.

sing

To confess under interrogation

torch singer

a singer of torch songs; most often a woman

background singer

A backing vocalist or backing singer (or, especially in the U.S. and Canada, backup singer or sometimes background singer or harmony vocalist) is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists

backing singer

backup singer

sing

{v} to form the voice to melody, celebrate, describe in verse

Isaac Bashevis Singer

{i} (1904-1991), United States novelist and writer of short stories in the Yiddish language (born in Poland), winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in literature

Isaac Bashevis Singer

a Jewish-American writer, born in Poland, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, and who is best known for his short stories and for his novel The Slave. He wrote in Yiddish and his work has been translated into many languages (1904-91). Yiddish Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger born July 14?, 1904, Radzymin, Pol., Russian Empire died July 24, 1991, Surfside, Fla., U.S. Polish-born U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and essays. He received a traditional Jewish education at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary. After publishing his first novel, Satan in Goray (1932), he immigrated to the U.S. in 1935 and wrote for the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper in New York. Though he continued to write mostly in Yiddish, he personally supervised the English translations. Depicting Jewish life in Poland and the U.S., his works are a rich blend of irony, wit, and wisdom, flavoured distinctively with the occult and the grotesque. His works include the novels The Family Moskat (1950), The Magician of Lublin (1960), and Enemies: A Love Story (1972; film, 1989); the story collections Gimpel the Fool (1957), The Spinoza of Market Street (1961), and A Crown of Feathers (1973, National Book Award); and the play Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1974; film, 1983). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978

Isaac Merritt Singer

He patented a rock-drilling machine (1839) and a metal-and wood-carving machine (1849) before producing an improved version of Elias Howe's sewing machine in 1851 and soon thereafter founding I.M. Singer & Co. (see Singer Co.) to manufacture it. Howe's successful patent-infringement suit against him in 1854 did not prevent Singer from manufacturing his machine, and his company was soon the world's largest sewing-machine producer. He patented numerous further improvements in the technology; he also pioneered the use of installment credit plans

Isaac Merritt Singer

born Oct. 27, 1811, Pittstown, N.Y., U.S. died July 23, 1875, Torquay, Devon, Eng. U.S. inventor and manufacturer. He became an apprentice machinist at

John Singer Sargent

a US artist who lived and worked mainly in London and who painted many paintings of rich and important people (1856-1925). born Jan. 12, 1856, Florence, Italy died April 15, 1925, London, Eng. U.S.-British painter. Son of wealthy American parents, he was born in Italy and grew up in Europe, not seeing the U.S. until 1876. Having studied painting in Paris, in 1879 he traveled to Madrid and Haarlem to study the works of Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals; his finest works were painted soon afterward. Best known is his portrait Madame X, which created a scandal at the 1884 Salon; critics found it eccentric and erotic, and the sitter's mother claimed it made her daughter a laughingstock. Discouraged, he moved permanently to London, though he often visited the U.S. Not until about 1887 did he achieve the acclaim he was to enjoy in the U.S. and England the rest of his life. His elegant portraits created an enduring image of high society of the Edwardian age; the best, painted with his slashing brushstrokes, capture his subjects in revealing, off-guard moments. He largely gave up portraiture in 1907 and devoted the rest of his life to murals and landscapes

ever-youthful singer

singer who retains his youthfulness

folk singer

a singer of folk songs

folk singer

{i} singer of folk songs

lead singer

The lead singer of a pop group is the person who sings most of the songs

lieder singer

a singer of lieder

opera singer

player-singer with a powerful voice who participates in musical plays

sing

To cry out; to complain

sing

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

sing

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do

sing

produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well"

sing

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

sing

divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"

sing

{f} utter words melodiously, make musical sounds with the voice (often with musical accompaniment); perform songs; chirp, whistle; buzz, whirr; inform, tattle, squeal (Slang)

sing

to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing"

sing

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice

sing

To accompany, or attend on, with singing

sing

in a chorus or concerted piece

sing

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

sing

When you sing, you make musical sounds with your voice, usually producing words that fit a tune. I can't sing I sing about love most of the time They were all singing the same song Go on, then, sing us a song! `You're getting to be a habit with me,' sang Eddie

sing

to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing" produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well" deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols

sing

deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols"

sing

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

sing

deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols

sing

When birds or insects sing, they make pleasant high-pitched sounds. Birds were already singing in the garden. see also singing. Sing. is a written abbreviation for singular. singular

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