(n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
(n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
(n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
(n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.
(n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
(n.) A hassock or thick mat.
(a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
(a.) The lowest part in a musical composition.
(a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.
(a.) Deep or grave in tone.
(v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(2) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(3) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(4) Kinetics of intestinal transport of L-alanine and L-valine (substrates of the A-system and the L-system, respectively, in mammals) across the brush-border membrane in sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, were studied on intact mucosa using a short-term uptake technique.
(5) Sea bass liver GSH-peroxidase eluted coincidently with Se-75 and was estimated to have a molecular weight of 72,000.
(6) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
(8) Nor does the presence of the eosinophil automatically infer IgE mediated hypersensitivity, as evidenced by studies examining the interaction of the eosinophil with the cellular arm of the immune system (Basten and Beeson, 1970; Ruscetti et al., 1976; Beeson and Bass, 1977; Raghavachar et al., 1987; Ohnishi et al., 1988).
(9) Radioimmunoassays of the free and conjugated fractions of plasmas from ovulating sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) have revealed the presence of several unusual polar steroids.
(10) A thermoadaptive strategy based on the reduction of sea bass metabolic activity is suggested.
(11) This value is compatible with the kinetic parameters of both glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from bass liver, and hence with the flux through the oxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway.
(12) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(13) Western-ligand blot procedure using the same labelled hormone identified at least three major forms of IGF-BPs in the plasma of all four teleost species investigated: coho salmon, striped bass (Morone saxatilis), tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), and longjawed mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis).
(14) Introduction of striped bass to the west coast from the east coast of the U.S.A. provided the opportunity to study a recent host-parasite association in a marine system.
(15) Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum.
(16) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
(17) Preliminary data indicate that mercury levels in largemouth bass in these systems decline as the reservoirs age.
(18) "These are the people who have chosen to say something, but there are many subscriptions yet to be renewed this year," said Graham Bass, a councillor in Croydon.
(19) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
(20) It’s not the kind of job you get into if you’re concerned about what you’re going to be doing in middle age,” said Taylor, the band’s longtime bass player.
Basso
Definition:
(a.) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.
(a.) One who sings the lowest part.
(a.) The double bass, or contrabasso.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Gartner analyst Monica Basso says the scale of the site now confirms it as "the mother of all social networks", and predicts that it will pursue further growth by expanding connected features and channels on third-party sites, including business services.
(2) A simplified plasmid-directed coupled system [Robakis, N., Cenatiempo, Y., Meza-Basso, L., Brot, N., & Weissbach, H. (1983) Methods Enzymol.
(3) "Never gonna say goodbye," he crooned in his surprisingly basso voice - and who knew how right he was.
(4) 61 min: Campbell runs at the Bristol City backline but his shot is easily gathered by Basso.
(5) Basso's lawyer argued that Shrode "fabricated credentials and hypothesized expansively".
(6) 22 min: Hull probing without joy until Windass feeds Ricketts on the right, his cross plops onto the head of Garcia but he heads just over with Basso at full stretch.
(7) Or she switches on a harmoniser, which distorts her voice into a creepy basso profundo: "Another d-a-a-a-y.
(8) Scott Momaday remarks that "you cannot understand how the Indian thinks of himself in relation to the world around him unless you understand his conception of what is appropriate; particularly what is morally appropriate within the context of that relationship" (Basso, 1984, p. 46).
(9) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(10) A familiar ritual played out each Saturday night in autumn, beginning with tension-creating music and the basso profundo of Peter Dickson, whose pause-laden announcements made his voice as recognisable to British viewers as Richard Dimbleby's had been half a century earlier, and ending with the magical incantations "calls cost 50p from landlines, mobile networks may vary" and "please ask the bill-payer's permission", which caused millions of digits to press urgently on keypads.
(11) Fernando Torres Liverpool to Chelsea, £50m Andy Carroll Newcastle to Liverpool, £35m David Luiz Benfica to Chelsea, £26.5m Luis Suárez Ajax to Liverpool, £22.8m Tuncay Stoke to Wolfsburg, £4.5m Andy Reid Sunderland to Blackpool, undisc Maximilian Haas Bayern Munich II to Boro, undisc Merouane Zemmama Hibernian to Boro, undisc Rubén Rochina Barcelona to Blackburn, undisc Adriano Basso free agent to Wolves Daniel Sturridge Chelsea to Bolton, loan Paul Konchesky Liverpool to Nottm Forest, loan Stephen Ireland Aston Villa to Newcastle, loan James Beattie Rangers to Blackpool, loan Eidur Gudjohnsen Stoke to Fulham, loan Paulo da Silva Sunderland to Real Zaragoza, undisc El Hadji Diouf Blackburn to Rangers, loan Major Premier League January transfer window deals Arsenal In Ryo Miyaichi (unattached, undisc).
(12) Originally from New York, Basso was found guilty of the 1998 murder of 59-year-old Louis "Buddy" Musso.
(13) Basso's five co-defendants, including her son, were convicted of involvement in Musso's killing but not sentenced to death.
(14) 28 min: A ball over the top drops between Orr and Basso and while they stutter Barmby almost gets in to head the ball beyond both.
(15) He has a deep, drawly voice – so deep he used to be known as Basso Profundo when he worked at the Times Literary Supplement in the 80s – and a hesitant, donnish manner, but his brown eyes sparkle behind his glasses, and he laughs a great deal, managing to take himself very seriously and at the same time not in the least seriously.
(16) Basso testified last year from a bed wheeled into court.
(17) Several state and federal appeals have failed and last month a judge in Houston ruled that Basso is mentally-competent enough to be executed.
(18) In an event rare even for the US's busiest death chamber, Suzanne Basso is set to become the fourteenth woman executed in America since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
(19) If he fails, the 59-year-old Basso will be the first woman to be put to death in America since last June, when Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th person executed by Texas in the modern era.
(20) Basso is the sole woman in the US with an execution date, according to the center.