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Bass

noun

(in the sense of fish: pl. bass, and sometimes basses)

The lowest part of the musical range.

The lowest part in polyphonic music. Synonym: bass part.

An adult male singer with the lowest voice. Synonym: basso.

The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae. Synonym: sea bass.

Any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus). Synonym: freshwater bass.

The lowest adult male singing voice. Synonyms: bass voice, basso.

The member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments.

Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes.

adjective

Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range. Synonym: deep. "A bass voice is lower than a baritone voice" , "A bass clarinet"

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"Bass" Quotes from Famous Books

... heard, note by note, and like a child who is learning the piano, always goes back to the beginning of the piece when he strikes a false note. After many trials the whole air is discovered. Then the trombones and bass instruments put in the accompaniment also by experiment, and in the end the result is really quite good for Africans unlike Asiatics, take kindly ...

— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman

... die. Whereon this Miller both of corn and meal An hundred times more than before did steal; For, ere this chance, he stole but courteously, But now he was a thief outrageously. The Warden scolded with an angry air; But this the Miller rated not a tare: He sang high bass, and ...

— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

... bag which bore the name of a patent fertilizer; a small hand mowing-machine blocked the entrance; and a plank, too long to lie flat on the ground, had been propped slantwise between the floor and the roof. Bunches of bass hung from nails above the shelf; and on the wall opposite, a coloured advertisement, representing phloxes of so fierce an intensity of hue that nature was put to the blush, had been tacked by some ...

— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce

... organ, and there was one whose face I well knew sitting at the keyboard, smiling and pluming himself like a bird as he thundered forth a giant fugue by way of overture. I heard the great pedal notes in the bass stalk majestically up and down, like the rays of the Aurora that go about upon the face of the heavens off the coast of Labrador. Then presently the people rose and sang the chorus "Venus laughing from the skies;" but ere the sound had well died away, I awoke, and all ...

— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler

... old choir, with their fiddles and bass-viols,' said the home-comer, musingly. 'Are they still going on the same ...

— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy

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