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Song vs Scrobble - What's the difference?

song | scrobble |

As nouns the difference between song and scrobble

is that song is wave while scrobble is a datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

As verbs the difference between song and scrobble

is that song is to shake out even while scrobble is (slang) to waylay, kidnap or steal or scrobble can be (internet slang) to publish one's music-listening habits to the internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.

song

English

(wikipedia song)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
  • (label) Any musical composition.
  • Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:This subject for heroic song .
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
  • The act or art of singing.
  • A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
  • :
  • *(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • *:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
  • Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
  • :
  • *(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
  • *:The 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;.
  • An object of derision; a laughing stock.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
  • *:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.

    • Derived terms

    * birdsong * for a song * old song * on song * singsong * siren song * Song of Solomon * Song of Songs * songsheet * song sparrow * song thrush * songwise * songwriter * swan song

    See also

    * canticle * go for a song

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    scrobble

    English

    Etymology 1

    1927, in the book .

    Verb

  • (slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
  • * (John Masefield)
    • They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
  • * Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (page 73)
    • "We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her..."

    Etymology 2

    From the name of the Internet service (Audioscrobbler).

    Verb

  • (internet slang) To publish one's music-listening habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

    • Anagrams

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