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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

... have been on?" the woman continued. "There's none due on this line that we knew of. David Bass, the station-master, was here but two hours ago and said he'd finished for the night, and praised the Lord for that. The goods trains had all been stopped at Ipswich, and the first passenger train was ...

— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... The vehicles, drawn into a single way, crowded together, progressed slowly. Gordon saw in the back of the buggy before him two whiskey jugs. Some one far ahead began to sing a revival hymn, and it ran along the line of carriages like a trail of ignited powder. A deep bass caught it behind Gordon Makimmon, then the piercing soprano of a woman ...

— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... afternoon was the best time for fishing. For the next two hours our thoughts were of quivering rods and leaping bass. ...

— The Young Forester • Zane Grey

... spring a boy came to me and said: "Dad, let's go fishing; I saw the bass jumping in the lake just now, and that means ...

— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny, sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume. The sounds varied considerably at different points, as we moved across the lake, as if the number of the animals from which they proceeded ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

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