Bass
[beɪs] or [bes]
Definition
(noun.) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes.
(noun.) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments.
(noun.) the lowest part of the musical range.
(noun.) the lowest adult male singing voice.
(noun.) the lowest part in polyphonic music.
(noun.) an adult male singer with the lowest voice.
(adj.) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; 'a deep voice'; 'a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice'; 'a bass clarinet' .
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Definition
(pl. ) of Bass
(n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
(n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
(n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
(n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.
(n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
(n.) A hassock or thick mat.
(a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
(a.) The lowest part in a musical composition.
(a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.
(a.) Deep or grave in tone.
(v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. (Mus.) Low, deep, grave.
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Definition
n. the low or grave part in music.—adj. low deep grave.—v.t. to sound in a deep tone.—ns. Bass′-horn a musical wind-instrument a modification of the bassoon much lower and deeper in its tones; Thor′ough-bass the theory of harmony.
Same as Bast.
n. a marine fish allied to the perch.
Typist: Patricia
Examples
- Porkin and Snob,' growled the bass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He walked to the fireplace and warmed himself, humming the fag end of a tune in a rich convivial bass voice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The magnificent melody of the Prayer in Rossini's Moses, sung in a sonorous bass voice, rose grandly through the suburban silence of the place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs. Snagsby, in a spectral bass voice and without removing her eyes from Chadband, says with dreadful distinctness, Go away! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The air as sung by the bass voice would be represented by _A_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pitch of pianos, from the lowest bass note to the very highest treble, varies from 27 to about 3500 vibrations per second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Treble, tenor, and bass notes were to be found therein. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like. Plato. The Republic.
- One Sunday I can well mind--a bass viol day that time, and Yeobright had brought his own. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among these, two made themselves prominent by their peculiarity: one was a very strong bass, the other a wheezy thin piping. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Osborne's I will was sounded in very deep bass. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's what I should expect, when a fellow like Trapping Bass is let off so easily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Instruments in which the strings are set into motion by bowing--violin, viola, violoncello, double bass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The unusual length and thickness of the strings of the double bass make it produce very low notes, so that it is ordinarily looked upon as the bass voice of the orchestra. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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