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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

... party assembled at Belle Vue for Madame von Marwitz's delectation, she had been made a little to feel that she was but one of the indistinguishable orchestra that plucked out from accommodating strings a mellow bass to the one thrilling solo. Not for one moment did she grudge any of the recognitions that were her great friend's due; but she did expect to bask beside her; she did expect to find transmitted to her an important satellite's share ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great ...

— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift

... fine treble; Gray's a mellow bass. Others joined them, and the party returned to the Academy, singing ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... a deep resonant bass voice. He hit himself a blow on the head that would have floored any two ordinary men. "Sora," he announced, striking the alien woman ...

— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

... She started to speak reverently in a low tone. It was the usual petition that blessing should descend upon the missions, the sewing circle and the children's work—and here her voice wavered a little, for a man's bass voice joined in with her own. It was that of the deacon who carried the offering plate each Sunday morning, opposite her husband. On and on both man and woman shouted their words with strength and rapidity upon their hearers' ears. The Deacon's ...

— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

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