What's the difference between chorister and singer?

Chorister


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
  • (n.) One who leads a choir in church music.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2010 a chorister was dismissed for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting.
  • (2) Backing this up, a recent study by the Oxford Brookes psychologist Nick Stewart found that choristers reported far higher levels of mental wellbeing than people who sang alone, or played a team sport.
  • (3) … a King’s chorister Peter Pan Dancers are naturals in the air, so it’s not hard for them to look spectacular in Peter Pan, here choreographed by Northern Ballet’s director David Nixon.
  • (4) He makes his musical journey from child chorister, to leader of his local El Sistema orchestra, to globe-trotting twentysomething conductor sound like a serene progress.
  • (5) Bolstered by the success of beating other groups to claim the title, the choristers from St John’s care home in North Yorkshire seized the chance to enter the contest and showcase the talented communities that thrive inside the UK’s care homes.
  • (6) That’s from people who, frankly, don’t feel the effects.” In his spare time, he DJ’d, specialising in house and garage, with a residency in a south London bar (at school he had played cello and was a chorister at Southwark Cathedral; his voice can be heard on the theme tune to Mr Bean).
  • (7) An outbreak of streptococcal throat infection which took place in a preparatory school for boys (some of whom were choristers) over three terms from November 1983 to June 1984 is described.
  • (8) As one former minister says of the puritan choristers: “They have spent their lives working towards this dream.

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 .

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