- a person or thing that singes.
- U.S. novelist and short-story writer (in Yiddish), born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1978.
- U.S. inventor.
- a person who sings, esp one who earns a living by singing
- a singing bird
- an obsolete word for poet
- Isaac Bashevis. 1904–91, US writer of Yiddish novels and short stories; born in Poland. His works include Satan in Goray (1935), The Family Moscat (1950), the autobiographical In my Father's Court (1966), and The King of the Fields (1989): Nobel prize for literature 1978
- Isaac Merrit. 1811–75, US inventor, who originated and developed an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1852)
