(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 .
Winger
Definition:
(n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(3) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
(4) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(5) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(6) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
(7) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(8) Roma are close to a deal for the Fiorentina winger Adem Ljajic and Tottenham's hopes of taking Lamela appear to hinge on it being finalised.
(9) The repositioning of Ashley Young is particularly intriguing given that Sir Alex Ferguson uses him as a right-footed left-winger at Manchester United.
(10) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
(11) Indeed, as Wilfried Zaha sashayed beyond Debuchy and company, Pardew must have braced himself for an equaliser – only for Tim Krul to brilliantly divert the winger's ensuing shot for a corner.
(12) The winger Balazs Dzsudzsak is the side’s only star.
(13) Should he head for the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, Spurs may offer his dressing-room peg to the Swiss striker Josip Drmic , a right-winger and striker who has scored 15 times for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, including both goals in the crucial win over Stuttgart last night.
(14) Although Crouch had possible claims for a penalty in each half, Stoke's best chance came when Marko Arnautovic sent Oussama Assaidi clear only for a poor first touch to let down the winger, on loan from Liverpool.
(15) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(16) Chelsea’s Diego Costa strikes at the last to deny Manchester United Read more That said, the width wasn’t provided in the conventional manner: Van Gaal fielded no touchline-hugging wingers, and instead fielded players who drifted inside into central positions.
(17) All inventive incision, the winger's arrival reinvigorated a suddenly possession-monopolising City.
(18) The England winger has been training with the under-21s for the past two and a half months after being frozen out by Mauricio Pochettino in the wake of his public spat with Nathan Gardiner, Tottenham’s fitness coach, following a win against Aston Villa in November.
(19) "I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game," he says.
(20) Arjen Robben One of the best wingers in the world and a pleasure to watch.