(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
(n.) A trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
(18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
Tong
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Tonge
Example Sentences:
(1) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(2) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
(3) The prime minister of Tuvalu , Enele Sopoaga, said that Tong’s views are “strongly shared by leaders of smaller island states.” The 1.5C commitment already appears to be in trouble, however, with New Zealand indicating its opposition to the pledge.
(4) In this research, 74 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were grouped in matched-pair, one group took orally Inositol and Mai Tong as the control group, the other group took orally Yi Xin Decoction as the tested group.
(5) The geographical impetus has also made the band think about a possible follow up, based on Tong's hometown.
(6) Yet even as the paper hailed Cameron's move on Friday, it did hold it in a pair of tongs, carefully putting quotes in a headline which said "Internet porn: PM steps in to 'safeguard children'".
(7) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(8) The effects of TZT, with the serum levels of LDL-c and Apo B being lowered and the serum level of HDL-c being elevated, were more beneficial than inositol and Mai Tong.
(9) Tong (1976) described the polar coordinate transformation by which the sinusoidal regression problem can be treated as a linear regression problem.
(10) For example, 91% believed bad food and poor sanitation and hygiene were responsible for tong-sia, but only 34.4% gave this response when referring to index cases.
(11) In a 68-year-old man the correction was sustained by skull tong traction, while the neurologic condition was monitored.
(12) Everyone, 93.1%, and 67.5% mentioned flies and germs (sanitation and hygienic practices) as the cause of ahiwa, tong-sia, and bid, respectively.
(13) Subjects specified 12 terms for diarrhoeal illnesses that were grouped into four locally meaningful groups, namely, tong-sia, a non-specific term for diarrhoea, bid, associated with colicky abdominal pain, ahiwa, referring to severe illness, often cholera; and taae-tua, diarrhoea associated with milestones of growth and development.
(14) He should talk about freedom, the suspension of the newspapers and the use of the sedition law – something that is so repressive – and the welfare of the former opposition leader [Anwar].” Liew Chin Tong, a lawmaker from the opposition Democratic Action party, said Cameron must tell Najib categorically to “respect the rule of law as well as human rights”.
(15) Points of contact invariably produce friction and friction generates heat and may lead to a conflagration,” declared South Africa's minister of the interior, Dr T E Tonges, in 1950, when he introduced the Group Areas Act , the law that enforced the division of cities into ethnically distinct areas.
(16) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
(17) Failure of attachment ("pull-off") of Gardner-Wells tongs from the cranium occasionally occurs, and may cause problems, especially in cases of significant cervical spinal instability.
(18) The EPR results are consistent with a recent X-ray crystallographic model for the p21-MgIIGDP complex (Milburn, M. V., Tong, L., DeVos, A. M., Brunger, A., Yamaizumi, Z., Nishimura, S., and Kim, S.-H., 1990, Science 247, 939-945).
(19) "He did it after Jenny Tonge made unacceptable comments about Palestine."
(20) Indications and a procedure for rapid closed reduction and decompression of cervical fracture dislocations in less than two hours by tong traction are described.