Yoik vs. Sing — What's the Difference?

A traditional style of Sami singing or chanting.

Make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune

A song in this tradition.

Make a high-pitched whistling or buzzing sound

To sing in a traditional Sami style.

Act as an informer to the police

Recount or celebrate in poetry or other literature

An act or spell of singing

To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.

To vocalize songs or selections.

To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.

To produce sounds when played

To make melodious sounds

To give or have the effect of melody; lilt.

To make a high whining, humming, or whistling sound.

To be filled with a buzzing or ringing sound.

To proclaim or extol something in verse.

To write poetry.

(Slang) To give information or evidence against someone.

To produce the musical sound of

To utter with musical inflections

To bring to a specified state by singing

To intone or chant (parts of the Mass, for example).

To proclaim or extol, especially in verse

A gathering of people for group singing.

(intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

(intransitive) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.

(transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.

(transitive) To soothe with singing.

(ambitransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:

(ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.

(literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.

To confess under interrogation.

(intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.

To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.

(intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

(ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.

(AU) In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.

The act, or event, of singing songs.

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.

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

To cry out; to complain.

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.

To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Deliver by singing;

Produce tones with the voice;

To make melodious sounds;

Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound;

Divulge confidential information or secrets;