Yoik vs. Sing — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Yoik and Sing
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Definitions
Yoik
A traditional style of Sami singing or chanting.
Sing
Make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune
Bella sang to the baby
Yoik
A song in this tradition.
Sing
Make a high-pitched whistling or buzzing sound
The kettle was beginning to sing
Yoik
To sing in a traditional Sami style.
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Sing
Act as an informer to the police
As soon as he got put under pressure, he sang like a canary
Sing
Recount or celebrate in poetry or other literature
Poetry should sing the variety of the human race
These poets sing of the American experience
Sing
An act or spell of singing
We asked him to come back and have a bit of a sing
A sponsored sing to pay for the theatre
Sing
To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.
Sing
To vocalize songs or selections.
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Sing
To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.
Sing
To produce sounds when played
Made the violin sing.
Sing
To make melodious sounds
Birds singing outside the window.
Sing
To give or have the effect of melody; lilt.
Sing
To make a high whining, humming, or whistling sound.
Sing
To be filled with a buzzing or ringing sound.
Sing
To proclaim or extol something in verse.
Sing
To write poetry.
Sing
(Slang) To give information or evidence against someone.
Sing
To produce the musical sound of
Sang a love song.
Sing
To utter with musical inflections
She sang the message.
Sing
To bring to a specified state by singing
Sang the baby to sleep.
Sing
To intone or chant (parts of the Mass, for example).
Sing
To proclaim or extol, especially in verse
Sang his praises.
Sing
A gathering of people for group singing.
Sing
(intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
Sing
(intransitive) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
Sing
(transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
Sing a lullaby
Sing
(transitive) To soothe with singing.
To sing somebody to sleep
Sing
(ambitransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
Sing
(ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
Sing
(literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
Sing
To confess under interrogation.
Sing
(intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
The air sings in passing through a crevice.
A singing kettle
Sing
To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
Sing
(intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
The sauce really makes this lamb sing.
Sing
(ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
Sing
(AU) In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
Sing
The act, or event, of singing songs.
I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.
Sing
To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
The noise of them that sing do I hear.
Sing
To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
On every bough the briddes heard I sing.
Singing birds, in silver cages hung.
Sing
To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
O'er his head the flying spearSang innocent, and spent its force in air.
Sing
To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
Bid her . . . singOf human hope by cross event destroyed.
Sing
To cry out; to complain.
They should sing if thet they were bent.
Sing
To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.
And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
Sing
To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
Arms and the man I sing.
The last, the happiest British king,Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.
Sing
To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
Sing
To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
I heard them singing home the bride.
Sing
Deliver by singing;
Sing Christmas carols
Sing
Produce tones with the voice;
She was singing while she was cooking
My brother sings very well
Sing
To make melodious sounds;
The nightingale was singing
Sing
Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound;
The kettle was singing
The bullet sang past his ear
Sing
Divulge confidential information or secrets;
Be careful--his secretary talks