(n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(2) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(3) Cantor accused Obama of an unwillingness to negotiate: The president continues to refuse to sit down with us Republicans.
(4) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor went with the "Ad?
(5) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
(6) John Harwood quoted Cantor as saying, if "Mr. Obama shows he is ‘serious about fixing the problem,” he said, "then we’ll see" about additional taxes.
(7) I think Paul Ryan is soon to be ‘Cantored’, as in Eric Cantor,” she said, alluding to the former Republican House leader who was knocked out of his seat in 2014 by a more conservative candidate.
(8) Though criticising Obama for a "'my way or the highway' approach", he insisted “there should be and is common ground if we would just allow ourselves to work together.” Obama himself weighed into the Republican drama on Wednesday night, insisting Cantor's exit did not spell the end of immigration reform.
(9) In other words, how many times can we expect John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Steny Hoyer, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi , and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz all to vote the same way on a relatively divided debate?
(10) House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, have built a publicity campaign to blame Obama for the "Obamaquester."
(11) Even before news of Cantor's departure leaked, the battle to succeed him was under way, laying bare the deep fissures tearing the GOP apart.
(12) The results are in accordance with those from the simulation study, showing that Jukes and Cantor's model is as useful as a more complicated one for making inferences about molecular phylogeny of the viruses.
(13) The ML tree estimation based on Jukes and Cantor's model is also revealed to be resistant to GC content, but rather sensitive to the ratio of transitions to transversions.
(14) Cantor did add that the aid package should ultimately be offset by other savings, Reuters notes.
(15) Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.
(16) Others with similar left-to-right rankings, but who were closer to the establishment, such as Senator John Barasso , Representative Cantor, Representative Billy Long of Missouri , and, yes, even very conservative Mitt Romney-backed Representative Steve King of Iowa often voted the opposite way.
(17) Robin Byde, an analyst at the stockbroker Cantor Fitzgerald, said: “A lot of companies are being very cautious on the outlook at the moment and I think we will see a lot more of that.
(18) Before the World Cup re-focused our attention on our incredibly diverse world, the conventional wisdom in the Beltway was that Pelosi's counterpart, the House majority leader Eric Cantor, had lost his primary because of a relatively open stance on immigration – and that any chance at meaningful reform (which Cantor actually opposed) would go down with him.
(19) But the imminent removal of Cantor from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill will undoubtedly have one more immediate impact: on the Republican leadership's deliberations over whether to allow a House vote on immigration in the narrow window between now and November's midterm elections.
(20) The crucial contest for Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives has been won by Kevin McCarthy, after a swift, decisive victory that will reassure a party establishment shaken by the sudden demise of Eric Cantor.
Singer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, singes.
(n.) One employed to singe cloth.
(n.) A machine for singeing cloth.
(n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Bi Kidude (Fatuma binti Baraka), singer, born around 1910; died 17 April 2013
(2) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(3) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(4) Photograph: Instagram Callander, who was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, sent a Twitter message to Grande on Sunday, saying: “SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU TOMORROW.” She had previously posted a photograph of herself with the singer taken in 2015 on her Instagram account.
(5) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
(6) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(7) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
(8) "[She] was in the hospital, as far as I could see, for absolutely no reason," the singer said.
(9) I learned how to join in with the conversation, and trained myself to pay attention to the other things that were going on apart from the singer.
(10) Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, who made a return to European stages at the MTV Europe Music awards in Milan on Sunday, abruptly canceled his concert in Oslo on Thursday night after performing just one song.
(11) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(12) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
(13) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(14) It was found that in addition to the immediate decrease of retrograde labelling with HRP in the cortical projections from the deafferented A-laminae of the dorsal part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (Singer et al.
(15) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
(16) However, the public response to the ruling might just potentially help the singer achieve her lawsuit’s other goal – to end her contract with Kemosabe.
(17) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(18) "Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
(19) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
(20) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .