different between rhythm vs song

English

Etymology

First coined in 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ??? (rhé?, “I flow, run, stream, gush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ð(?)m/
  • Rhymes: -?ð?m
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???.?(?)m/

Noun

rhythm (countable and uncountable, plural rhythms)

1. The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

   Dance to the rhythm of the music.

2. A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

   Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry

3. A flow, repetition or regularity.

   Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.

4. The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

   We walked with a quick, even rhythm.

5. The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.

   The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm

6. A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.

   The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife

7. Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.

   The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy

Synonyms

• meter / metre
• prosody
• (instruments providing rhythm) rhythm section

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang (“noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay”), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *seng??- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ???? (omph?, “voice, oracle”). More at sing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??/, /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

song (plural songs)

1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
2. (by extension) Any musical composition.
3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
   • The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.

4. The act or art of singing.
5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
   • 1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims

     That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
6. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
7. A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
   • 1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland

     his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

8. An object of derision; a laughing stock.

   • And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• canticle
• go for a song

Anagrams

• NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, gons, nogs, snog

Atong (India)

Etymology

Cognate with Garo song. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

song

1. village

Derived terms

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bikol Central

Noun

song

1. rhinoceros beetle

Chuukese

Adjective

song

1. angry

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English song. Doublet of zang.

Pronunciation

Noun

song m (plural songs)

1. song

   Synonyms: lied, liedje

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sæing (“bed”), later sæng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k/

Noun

song f (genitive singular songar or seingjar, plural seingir or sengur)

1. bed

Declension

See also

• kamar
• sovikamar
• svøvnposi
• svøvnur
• koddi

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

song

1. village, hamlet
2. classifier for villages

Derived terms

• songjinma
• songsal

Mandarin

Romanization

song

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sange, sang, songe, zang, zong, zonge, soong, songge

Etymology

From Old English sang, song, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?/, /s??n?/, /san?/, /sa?n?/

Noun

song (plural songes)

1. A song (lyrical music):
   1. Religious or spiritual chanting or hymns.
   2. A exposition or story, especially a sung one.
   3. A song supposed to have occult or magical power.
2. The practice or an instance of singing songs.
3. The sound produced by a bird (rarely other creatures)
4. A tune; non-lyrical music.
5. A quip, declaration, or remark.
6. A poem; a written work in verse.

Declension

Derived terms

• songly

Descendants

• English: song
• Scots: song, sang

References

• “s??ng, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-24.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse s?ngr. Akin to English song.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s???/

Noun

song m (definite singular songen, indefinite plural songar, definite plural songane)

1. song

Derived terms

Verb

song

1. past tense of syngja, syngje, synga and synge

References

• “song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English song.

Noun

song

1. song

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [saw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?aw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?aw??m??] ~ [saw??m??]
• Homophone: xong

Etymology 1

Noun

(classifier cây) song • (????, ????, ????)

1. big rattan

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“window”).

Noun

song

1. (archaic, literary) window
2. Short for ch?n song (“upright post in a paling or railing”).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“double; pair”).

Prefix

song

1. bi-; double; parallel

Derived terms

Adverb

song

1. (formal) however
2. (formal) but

Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *so???, from Middle Chinese ? (MC ????, “two”). Cognate with Thai ??? (s???ng), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (s?ng), Lü ??? (?oang), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (s?ang), Tai Nüa ???? (sóang), Ahom ???????????????? (song), Bouyei soongl.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?o????/
• Tone numbers: song¹
• Hyphenation: song

Numeral

song (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography so?)

1. two
   • 2008, Rint Sybesma, Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics, in From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics (edited by Pieter Muysken), page 246:

     De   fwngz   ndeu   yaeuj   ndaej   song   doengj   raemx   bae!

     3s    hand    one     raise    ACQ    two    bucket    water    PRT

     S/he can lift two buckets of water with one hand!

Usage notes

Used with ndeu rather than it.

Synonyms

• ngeih