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Singer

Definition: Singer

Singer

Noun

1. A person who sings.

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "singer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Singer

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Sings as soloist or member of vocal ensemble: Interprets music, using knowledge of harmony, melody, rhythm, and voice production, to present characterization or to achieve individual style of vocal delivery. Sings, following printed text and musical notation, or memorizes score. May sing a cappella or with musical accompaniment. May watch CHORAL DIRECTOR (profess. & kin.) or CONDUCTOR, ORCHESTRA (profess. & kin.) for directions and cues. May be known according to voice range as soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, or bass. May specialize in one type of music, such as opera, lieder, choral, gospel, folk, or country and western and be identified according to specialty. (references)
 Tends machine that singes nap or lint from cloth: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine, or threads end through machine rollers. Observes cloth to detect burning as cloth passes over heated plates, rollers, or gas flame, and through wetting-down equipment. Sets thermostat to maintain specified temperature of singeing element and prevent burning of cloth. Turns valve to control water flow to wetting-down equipment. May doff machine, using handtruck. (references)
 Holds felt hats over flame to burn away protruding hairs prior to finishing operations: Depresses pedal to release steam from jet and holds and turns hat, mounted on block, in current of steam to moisten felt. Activates gas jet and turns hat in flame to burn away protruding hairs without scorching felt. May place hat body on revolving block to burn off excess fuzz or lint. (references)
 Singes hair from carcasses of suspended hogs to prepare them for further processing, using torch. Inserts end of butcher's steel in nostril of hog to remove hair. May be designated according to part of hog singed as Hog-Head Singer (meat products). (references)
 Singes edges of rolls of glass tape to remove broken filaments, using lighted torch. Wraps specified number of singed rolls in paper and packs rolls in shipping cartons or stacks rolls in storage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Isaac Singer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Isaac Merritt Singer (October 26, 1811 - July 23, 1875) was founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Co.

Singer was born in Utica, New York, the son of Adam Singer, a Saxon immigrant to America, and his first wife Ruth. He entered a machinist's shop as an apprentice at the age of nineteen, but stayed there only a few months, leaving to become one of a touring group of actors. His income came alternately from work as a mechanic and as an actor. In 1830 he married Catherine Maria Haley. In 1835 he moved with Catherine and their son William to New York City, working in a press shop. In 1836, he left the city as an advance agent for a company of players, touring through Baltimore, where he met Mary Ann Sponsler, to whom he proposed marriage. He returned to New York, where he and Catherine conceived a daughter, Lillian, born in 1837. Mary Ann arrived in New York, discovering that Singer was already married. Singer and Mary Ann returned to Baltimore, presenting themselves as married, and their son Isaac was born in 1837. In 1839 Singer obtained his first patent, for a machine to drill rock, selling it for $2,000. This was more money than he had ever had before, and in the face of financial success, he opted for ... acting. He went on tour, forming a troupe known as the "Merritt Players", and appearing onstage under the name "Isaac Merritt", with Mary Ann also appearing onstage, calling herself "Mrs. Merritt". The tour lasted about five years. In 1844 Isaac took a job in a print shop in Fredericksburg, Ohio, but moved quickly on to Pittsburgh in 1846 to set up a woodshop for making wood type and signage. Here he developed and patented a "machine for carving wood and metal" on April 10, 1849. He then packed up his family and moved back to New York City, hoping to market his machine there. (At this point in life, he was thirty-eight years old, had two wives and eight children). He obtained an advance to build a working prototype of his machine, and obtained an offer to set up one of his machines in Boston. Singer went to Boston in 1850 to set the machine up at the shop of Orson C. Phelps, where Lerow and Blodgett sewing machines were being constructed. Orders for Singer's machine were not, however, forthcoming. Phelps asked Singer to look at the sewing machines, which were difficult to use and difficult to produce. Singer noted that the sewing machine would be more reliable if the shuttle moved in a straight line rather than a circle, with a straight rather than a curved needle.

Singer obtained financing, again, from George B. Zieber, becoming partners, with Phelps and him, in the "Jenny Lind Sewing Machine". Singer's prototype sewing machine became the first to work in a practical way. He received a patent in relation to improvements on the sewing machine on August 12, 1851. When eventually marketed, the machine was no longer the "Jenny Lind" but the Singer Sewing machine.

Singer didn’t invent the sewing machine, and never claimed to have done so. By 1850, when Singer saw his first sewing machine, it had been "invented" four times. All sewing machines before Walter Hunt's produced a "chain stitch" which had the disadvantage of easily unravelling. Hunt's machine produced a "lock stitch", as did all subsequent machines, including Lerow and Blodgett's, which Singer improved in Phelps's shop. Elias Howe independently developed a sewing machine and obtained a patent on September 10, 1846.

War broke out between Howe and Singer, with each claiming patent primacy. Singer set out to discover that Howe's improvements had been reinventions of existing technology, and found one of Hunt's old machines, which indeed created a lock-stitch with a shuttle. Hunt applied in 1853 for a patent, claiming priority to Howe's patent, issued some seven years earlier. A lawsuit, Hunt v. Howe, came to trial in 1854, and was resolved in Howe's favor. Howe then brought suit to stop Singer from selling Singer machines, and endless litigation ensued. In 1856, manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, Wheeler, and Wilson, all accusing the others of patent infringment, met in Albany to pursue their suits. Orlando B. Potter, a lawyer and president of the Grover and Baker Company, proposed that, rather than sue their profits out of existence, they pool their patents. This was the first patent pool, a process which enables production of complicated machines without legal battles over patent rights. They agreed to form the Sewing Machine Combination, but for this to be of any use they had to secure the cooperation of Elias Howe, who still held certain vital uncontested patents which meant he received a royalty on every sewing machine manufactured by any company. Terms were arranged, and Howe joined on. Sewing machines began to be mass produced: I. M. Singer & Co manufactured 2,564 machines in 1856, and 13,000 in 1860 at a new shop on Mott Street in New York.

Sewing machines had until now been industrial machines, made for tailors, but smaller machines began to be marketed for home use. I. M. Singer expanded into the European market, establishing a factory in Clydebank, near Glasgow, controlled by the parent company, becoming one of the first American-based multinational corporations, with agencies in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

The financial success gave Singer the ability to buy a mansion on Fifth Avenue, into which he moved his second family. In 1860, he divorced his first wife, on the basis of her adultery with Stephen Kent. He continued to live with Mary Ann, until she spotted him driving down Fifth Avenue seated beside one Mary McGonigal, an employee, about whom Mary Ann had well-founded suspicions, for by this time Mary McGonigal had borne Isaac Singer five children. The surname Matthews was used for this family. Mary Ann (still calling herself Mrs. I. M. Singer) had her husband arrested for domestic violence. Singer was let out on bond and, disgraced, fled for London, taking Mary McGonigal with him. In the aftermath, another of Isaac's families was discovered: he had a "wife" Mary Eastwood Walters and daughter Alice Eastwood in Lower Manhattan, who both adopted the surname "Merritt". By 1860, Isaac had fathered and recognized eighteen children (sixteen of them remaining alive), by four women.

With Isaac in London, Mary Ann began setting about securing a financial claim to his assets by filing documents detailing his infidelities, claiming that though she had never been formally married to Isaac, that they were in fact wed under common-law (by living together for seven months after Isaac had been divorced from his first wife Catherine). Eventually a settlement was made, but no divorce was granted. However, she asserted that she was free to marry and married John E. Foster in Boston in 1862. Isaac now contended that in fact they had been married under common law and accused Mary Ann of bigamy, and forced her to sign a renunciation of their prior financial settlement.

Singer then began seeing Mrs. Isabella Eugenie Boyer Summerville, said to have been a model for Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, who left her husband and married Isaac on June 13, 1863, while she was pregnant. Mary Ann, unaccountably, did not sue Isaac for bigamy.

In 1863, I. M. Singer & Co. was dissolved by mutual consent, with the business continued by "The Singer Manufacturing Company", enabling the reorganization of financial and management responsibilities. Singer no longer actively participated in the firm's day-to-day management, but served as a member of the Board of Trustees, and was a major stockholder.

He now began to increase his new family: he would eventually have six with his wife Isabella. Unable, probably because of Isaac's chequered marital past, to enter New York Society, the family emigrated to Paris, never to return to America. Fleeing the Franco-Prussian War, they resided first in London, then in Paignton, (near Torquay) on the Devon coast where he built a large house, Oldway Mansion. He brought some of his other children to live there. Nine days after the wedding of his daughter Alice Merritt to William Alonso Paul La Grove, Isaac Singer died of "an affection of the heart and inflammation of the wind-pipe". He was interred in Torquay cemetery.

Singer left an estate of about $14,000,000, and two wills disposing this between his family members, leaving some out for various reasons. Suits followed, with Mary Anne claiming to be the legitimate "Mrs. Singer". In the end Isabella was declared the legal widow. Isabella subsequently married a Belgian musician, Victor Reubsaet, who inherited the title Vicomte d’Estemburgh, and the Vatican title of Duke of Camposelice. Winnaretta Singer married Prince Louis de Scey-Monbéliard, and her sister Isabelle married Elie, duc Decazes. Their brother, Paris Singer, had a child by Isadora Duncan. Another brother, Washington Singer, became a substantial donor to the University College of the South West of England, which later became the University of Exeter; one of the University's buildings is named in his honour.

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List of popular music performers

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Singer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings. i.e. uses the voice as an instrument to make music.

In classical music and in opera, voices are treated just like musical instruments, thus special careers were developed out of each principal pitch.

Voices are commonly classified into:

An unrelated use of the word Singer is in reference to the Singer Corporation, which is a U.S-based maker of sewing machines.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Singer."

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Singer Corporation

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Singer Corporation was established as I.M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Issac Merritt Singer. It was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. Originally all of its manufacturing was done at facilities in New York City.

It is best known for its sewing machines. Today it produces a range of consumer products, including electronic sewing machines.

See also:

External links:

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Singing

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. Air is expelled with the diaphragm as with ordinary breathing, and the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming. A piece of music that is sung is called a song; someone who sings is called a singer.

Most singing involves shaping the mouth to form words, but types of mouth music which use open sounds or nonsense syllables ("vocables") also exist, for instance scat singing or yodeling. Solfege assigns certain syllables to notes in the scale.

Singing can be heard in many different places, since anyone who can speak can sing. It can be informal and just for pleasure (for example in the shower), or very formal, such as singing done professionally in a performance or in a recording studio.

Singing is often done in a group, such as a choir, and may be accompanied by musical instruments, a full orchestra, or a band.

Singing with no instrumental accompaniment is called a capella. However, the Choral Journal and other vocal-related publications actively discouage the use of this term and prefer the word "unaccompanied".

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Singing."

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Synonyms: Singer

Synonyms: vocaliser (n), vocalist (n), vocalizer (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Singer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man; vaudeville act; singer; musician.

The Drama

Mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Singer

English words defined with "singer": folk singer ♦ lieder singer ♦ torch singer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "singer": Ahishar, APOLLO, Ass ♦ CARUSO, Cats ♦ Elkanah ♦ minstrel ♦ PARSIFAL, PATTI, play-back, prerecorded playback, prescoring, presynchronization ♦ Stimulants of Great Men, Sweet Singer of Israel ♦ Van Hagar. (references)
Etymologies containing "singer": Sontag. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Singer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (ape, mimic).

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Modern Usage: Singer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

She was a folk singer. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

This chick Marla singer did not have testicular cancer (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

It's a recording contract but you're going to be needing to find a new singer! (Where the Boys Aren't 7; writing credit: Ariel Hart)

Great, then I won't have to worry about you making your living as a singer. (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash)

I can carry a tune, but I'm not a very good singer. (Inside Look: Down from the Mountain; writing credit: Eric Stormoen)

Lyrics

He was the singer in a band (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

And the famous singer sang and bowed away (Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Is another folk singer (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker)

`Cause from the lips of some old singer (Sad Songs (Say So Much); performing artist: Elton John)

Well I'm not a preacher just a singer son (Peaceful World; performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp)

Movie/TV Titles

The Folk Singer (1972)

Gramophone Singer (1938)

Street Singer (1938)

The Street Singer (1937)

Torch Singer (1933)

Song Titles

I'm Just A Singer (performing artist: The Moody Blues)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Singer

DomainTitle

References

  • Singer & Friedlander Group PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Singer Thailand Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Lucinda Williams : With her gorgeously ""flawed"" voice, the genre-bending singer has exquisitely mapped out the South -- as well as her own heart. A Salon.com Brilliant Career Profile and a Salon.com Interview. [HTML] (reference)

  • Handbook for the Rootes 1725: Hillman Minx Series VI 1965-67, Singer Gazelle Series VI 1965-67, Sunbeam Rapier Series V 1965-67, Sunbeam Alpine Series V 1965 onwards, Sunbeam Tiger/Alpine V/8 1965-67 (reference)

  • In Defense of Music: The Case for Music As Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century (reference)

  • Conversations With Contemporary American Writers: Saul Bellow, I.b. Singer, Joyce Carol Oates, David Madden, Barry Beckham, Josephine Miles, Gerald Stern, Stephen Dunn, Etheridge Knight, Marilynne Robinson And William Stafford.(Costerus NS 50) (reference)

  • About Burt Britton John Cheever, Gordon Lish, William Saroyan, Isaac B. Singer, Kurt Vonnegut and Others (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Jazz Singer (reference)

  • Hugh Shannon: Saloon Singer (reference)

  • Theatrical Hits DVD 4-Pack (Austin Powers, The Wedding Singer, Lost in Space, The Mask) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Singer

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Photo Album: Singer

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Figure 36. Cros messenger. These messengers were fabricated by the mechanic Jean Cros of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco at the request of Dr. Jean Brouardel. The messengers were very narrow and streamlined and capable of being used with modern equipment. They were probably tested about 1958 aboard the WINNARETTA SINGER. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Portraits of Great American Surgeons: Past Presidents of the American College of Surgeons : James William White, M.D. (1850-1916) / From the portrait by John Singer Sargent. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Martha M. Eliot] / Children's Bureau Photograph by Singer. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The new Singer Building, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Issac [i.e. Isaac] Bashevis Singer, author of Passions / photo credit, Jerry Bauer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Singer at the Café Metropol, New York City / Lisette Model. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York, N.Y., Singer Bldg. under construction. Credit: Library of Congress.

Singer, City Investing, and Hudson Terminal buildings, Manhattan, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cotton stockings. Dorothy Lamour on the set of "The Fleet's In," with her costume as a nightclub singer in the picture, she is wearing fine point lisle mesh stockings which have been specially designed for evening wear. Credit: Library of Congress.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spanish-American folk singer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Singer
 

"Singer" by Julia Eisenberg
Commentary: "Singer."		"Gig shots 10" by Guiga Müller
Commentary: "Lead singer wearing a wig and a feather boah to perform "I will survive"!!! I wish you could see this live...it's hilarious!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Singer

AuthorQuotation

Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance to be a prophet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Singer

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Once more I started into wakefulness, and realized that Mein Herr was not the singer.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Mr Dedalus began to sway his head to and fro, crooning like a country singer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Singer

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The great American folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, after suffering from HD for 13 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

The singer claimed the album copies were seized because they contained songs that were critical of the Government and that called for political change. (references)

Seychelles

In May government officials seized a shipment of copies of a local singer's album on the grounds that the singer had not obtained an import permit for the shipment. (references)

Singapore

In May, singer Janet Jackson's album "All for You" was banned officially by the Ministry of Information and the Arts due to the sexually explicit lyrics of one of its tracks; Jackson declined to delete the track from the album. (references)

Economic History

Iceland

Kristjan Johannsson is Iceland's most famous opera singer, while pop singer Bjork is probably its best known artist in this century. (references)

Mauritius

However, inter-ethnic tensions led to four days of rioting in February 1999, following the death of a popular minority singer in police custody. (references)

Trinidad

The market for furniture and appliances is dominated by three retail outlet chains (Courts, Standard and Singer), but the electronics market is primarily served by small "suitcase traders." Opportunities exist for U.S. manufacturers and U.S. distributors of foreign-made products. (references)

Human Rights

Mauritius

The judicial inquiry continued into the 1999 death in police custody of a popular Creole singer, Kaya. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, raping, beating, or otherwise abusing the persons in the following cases from 2000: The December beating of Traore Fousseni, his wives, and his brother-in-law; the December beating of Muslims in a mosque; the December violent dispersal of an RDR demonstration against the invalidation of Ouattara's candidacy; the December severe beating of Jean Philippe Kabore, the son of RDR Secretary General Henriette Dagri Diabate; the December rape of at least 10 arrested female protestors during RDR protests; the December beating death by presidential guards of Abou Coulibaly, RDR president Ouattara's private Secretary; the December reported torture of several persons following RDR demonstrations; the November shooting of a minibus driver and union leader; the November severe beating of a minibus driver; the October killing and injuring of hundreds of persons following the presidential elections; the October beatings of Raphael Lakpe, the publisher of the pro-RDR newspaper Le Populaire, his bodyguard, and Bakary Nimaga, chief editor of the pro-RDR newspaper Le Liberal; the September torture of 13 soldiers who allegedly participated in the attack on General Guei's residence; the September beating of students from the Federation of Students' and Schoolchildren's Organization (FESCI) on the Cocody campus; the September forcible dispersal of an RDR meeting; the July beating and torture of Soumbiala Doumbia; the May abuse of a judge; the July beatings of civilians following a military mutiny; the July forcible dispersal of demonstrators supporting statements by the French Government on candidate participation in the presidential election; the March beating in Man of a gendarme who was mistaken for a robbery suspect; the February beating of nurse Boua Keke; the February beating of singer Honore Djoman; the February beating of a university student by "Dozos" (traditional northern hunters); the February case in which police used tear gas to disperse striking workers at the Commune of Cocody City Hall; the January beating of Daoukro residents; and the January beating and kicking of students on a bus. (references)

Minorities

Ukraine

In May 2000, a popular folk singer was killed at a cafe in Lviv, allegedly by Russian-speakers who objected to his singing Ukrainian songs. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Singer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Barry Manilow

Not at that time. But I was pushing my song writing. I wanted other people to record my songs. And I got an offer to record my own songs as a singer. And I did, I accepted it, because nobody else seemed to be recording my songs.

Rosemary Clooney

Sure, wonderful singer. Anyway Billie and Tony were really close friends so when I met her, she kind of made that association and was a very good friend of mine and was nice to me. And so she is my first daughter's godmother.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Singer

"Singer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.74% of the time. "Singer" is used about 1,585 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)83.74%1,3285,980
Noun (proper)16.26%25818,412
                    Total100.00%1,585N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Singer

The following table summarizes the usage of "singer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
SingerLast name8,0001,454
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Singer

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "singer".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ShamsheraiN/ABiblical

There a singer or conqueror

ZimranN/ABiblical

Singer

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Singer

CountryNameCountryName
Thailand

Singer Thailand Public Company Limited

United Kingdom

Singer & Friedlander Group PLC

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Singer


1. Singer, LA
Zip Code(s): 70660
Country: USA

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Expression: Singer

Expressions using "singer": ballad singer ♦ bass singer ♦ carol singer ♦ chorus singer ♦ court singer ♦ folk singer ♦ he is not much of a singer ♦ Isaac Bashevis Singer ♦ Isaac M. Singer ♦ Isaac Merrit Singer ♦ John Singer Sargent ♦ leading singer ♦ lieder singer ♦ Master singer ♦ night singer ♦ nightclub singer ♦ opera singer ♦ pop singer ♦ professional opera singer ♦ singer of hymns ♦ torch singer ♦ vaudeville singer. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "singer": Singer-and-songwriter, singer-comediennne, singer-composer, singer-guitarist, singer-impressionist, singer-songwriter, singer-songwriters, singer-songwriter-storyteller, singer-strummers, singer-turned, singer-turned-actor.

Ending with "singer": ballad-singer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Singer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

singer

3,237

singer sewing machine part

132

singer sewing machine

1,612

female country singer

131

the jazz singer

1,574

wedding singer soundtrack

129

country singer

579

singer island

128

jewel singer

394

singer sumac

126

pink singer

386

mya singer

118

wedding singer

311

ashanti singer

114

john singer sargent

267

r b singer

110

female singer

219

opera singer

110

antique singer sewing machine

203

become a singer

110

country music singer

183

pop singer

103

singer sewing

180

nivea singer

96

country enti singer

165

rap singer

95

gospel singer

162

latin singer

93

monica singer

158

famous singer

92

korean singer

158

arabic singer

92

nude singer

152

boa korean singer

90

lori singer

143

guitar singer steve town

90

marc singer

135

vitamin c singer

90

picture of singer

133

vietnamese singer

88
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Singer

Language Translations for "singer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

sanger. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

këngëtar (caroller, chanter, chorister, crooner, melodist, musician, songster, vocalist). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

مطَرّب (melodious, musician), ‏منشد (chanter, vocalist), ‏مغن, ‏طائر مغرد, ‏المغني (songster), ‏المطرب (vocalist), ‏الصادح من الرجال. (various references)

   

Bulgarian