noun. Any of various North American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the largemouth bass and the smallmouth bass.

noun. Any of various marine fishes especially of the families Serranidae and Moronidae, and including the sea basses and the striped bass.

noun. A low-pitched sound or tone.

noun. The tones in the lowest register of an instrument.

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noun. A male singing voice of the lowest range.

noun. A singer who has such a voice.

noun. An instrument that sounds within this range.

noun. A vocal or instrumental part written within this range.

noun. An instrument, especially a double bass, that produces tones in a low register.

adjective. Having a deep tone.

adjective. Low in pitch.

noun. Originally, the perch, but now restricted to fishes more or less like the true perch.

noun. Same as bast.

noun. The American linden or lime-tree, Tilia Americana. See basswood.

noun. A mat made of bass or bast; a bass-mat; hence, any thick mat or matting; formerly, a straw hassock or cushion.

In music, low; deep; grave.

noun. In music, the lowest part in the harmony of a musical composition, whether vocal or instrumental.

noun. A male voice of the lowest or gravest kind, having a compass of about two octaves from the second F below middle C, or lower.

noun. A singer having such a voice.

noun. A musical instrument of any class having a deep, grave tone, excelled in gravity only by the contrabass.

noun. Same as bass clef (which see, under clef).

To sing or play the bass part of; accompany with the bass.

To sound in a deep tone.

To take the bass part in a concerted piece of music: as, he basses very steadily.

noun. In coal-mining, black carbonaceous shale.

To kiss.

noun. A kiss; a buss.

noun. The commercial name of a fiber, resembling horsehair or wire, obtained from the sheathing leaf-bases or the leaf-stalks of certain palms. It is dark brown or black in color, and is used for brooms, brushes, ropes, and cables. Also called piassava. See bast-palm, piassava, and bassine.

noun. The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See bast.

noun. A hassock or thick mat.

noun. An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

noun. The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

noun. Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.

noun. The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.

adjective. Deep or grave in tone.

adjective. the character placed at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition.

adjective. a deep-sounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

transitive verb. To sound in a deep tone.

noun. A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

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noun. The lowest part in a musical composition.

noun. One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.

noun. See Thorough bass.

noun. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.

adjective. Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.

noun. A low spectrum of sound tones.

noun. A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than tenor.

noun. A male singer who sings in the bass range.

noun. An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.

"The tone of the _bass_ is much heavier and the instrument itself is much more clumsy to handle than the other members of the group, hence it is almost never used as a solo instrument but it is invaluable for reinforcing the bass part in orchestral music."

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alberti bass  banklick bass  bass clarinet  bass counter  bass flute  

low  low-pitched  

bass clef  bass drum  bass guitar  bass music  bass note  

pitch  singer  vocaliser  vocalist  vocalizer  

Ace  Alsace  Cass  Chase  Glass  

alto  banjo  baritone  catfish  chord  

A string  Amati  Cremona  D string  E string  

base  bast  black bass  redfish  sea bass