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BASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
freshwater bass (North American food and game fish)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
instrument; musical instrument (any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
bass fiddle; bass viol; bull fiddle; contrabass; double bass; string bass (largest and lowest member of the violin family)
bass guitar (the guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch)
bass horn; sousaphone; tuba (the lowest brass wind instrument)
bombard; bombardon (a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The lowest part of the musical range
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
pitch (the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The lowest adult male singing voice
Synonyms:
bass; bass voice; basso
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
basso profundo (a very deep bass voice)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The lowest part in polyphonic music
Synonyms:
bass; bass part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
part; voice (the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
ground bass (a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated)
basso continuo; continuo; figured bass; thorough bass (a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
Synonyms:
bass; freshwater bass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
largemouth bass (flesh of largemouth bass)
smallmouth bass (flesh of smallmouth bass)
Holonyms ("bass" is a part of...):
freshwater bass (North American food and game fish)
Sense 7
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
Synonyms:
bass; sea bass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
striped bass; striper (caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("bass" is a part of...):
sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)
Sense 8
Meaning:
An adult male singer with the lowest voice
Synonyms:
bass; basso
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Example:
a bass clarinet
Synonyms:
bass; deep
Classified under:
Similar:
low; low-pitched (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)
Context examples:
Heyer randomly assigned different musical instruments to different gases, forming a combination consisting of a saxophone, a piano, an upright bass and some percussion woodblocks.
(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)
He, for it was a man, turned his head slowly towards where I stood, and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice, Her size is small: what is her age?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you'd seen him sitting up in that tree hob-nobbin' with his twin brother—and singin' in that rollin' bass of his, 'Ring out, wild bells,' cause music of any kind seemed to put 'em in a good humor, you'd have smiled; but we weren't in much mood for laughin', as you can guess.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Fairfax had said Mr. Rochester possessed a fine voice: he did—a mellow, powerful bass, into which he threw his own feeling, his own force; finding a way through the ear to the heart, and there waking sensation strangely.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
