(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.
Lass
Definition:
(n.) A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.
Example Sentences:
(1) An enrichment procedure involving percolation through octadecylsilica cartridges was applied to the extraction of linear alkylbenzenesulphonates (LASs), alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APEOs) and nonylphenol (NP) from treated and untreated municipal waste waters.
(2) Labile aggregation stimulating substance (LASS) composed of two closely linked intermediates of prostaglandin (PG) E2 and PGF2alpha biosynthesis, produced using a microsomal fraction of HP platelets, could correct the aggregation and secretion defect of AT platelets exposed to collagen.
(3) I’ll know that the high walls of inequality are tumbling down when a lass from Lincoln’s Ermine estate with a degree from Lincoln University and years of frontline policing experience, including running a police force, gets to run the Met.
(4) Lasse Gustavson, head of WWF's delegation, said: "While we think some of the new text is a good base for the future, such as the language on oceans, we see a lopsided victory of weak words over action words ,with the weak words winning out at 514 to 10."
(5) The visitors’ head coach, Dean Smith, complained about a congested fixture schedule which had left his depleted squad without payers such as Lasse Vibe and Alan Judge through injury.
(6) Chris Townley, a former landlord of a property managed by Foxtons, became the first claimant in a c lass action against the estate agent .
(7) The Labour party hopes to change this next year: if all goes according to plan, local lass Lee Sherriff will usurp John Stevenson, the Tory who – to his own obvious surprise – managed to interrupt 45 years of unbroken red rule in Carlisle by getting elected in 2010.
(8) "Rape only happens because lasses can't handle the banter," said Adam.
(9) Unfortunately for Karanka, Lasse Vibe’s equaliser at the outset of the second half proved absolutely legitimate.
(10) Ian’s father, John, said: “Kelly was a lovely lass.
(11) We also confirm the observation of I. Lassing and U. Lindberg (1985.
(12) It’s not our job to solve the wider problem and it is not our role to take a political stance.’ “One of the problems with the north is that it does think like this and I resigned because I did not want to be associated with this stance.” Women plan 'Lass War' protest at northern powerhouse conference Read more Meanwhile, Donna Hall, chief executive of Wigan council, said the apology was only issued after mounting pressure.
(13) Irreversible second-phase aggregation of platelets in diabetic patients is prevented in vitro by 5, 8, 11, 14-eicosatetraynoic acid (TYA), a competitive inhibitor of the labile aggregation-stimulating substance (LASS) which is formed from arachidonic acid.
(14) In fusions of protoplasts of a strain with the las+ ech+ spo+ nic-1 rif-3 markers with strains bearing the Las- LasS Ech- Bld- (or spo+) str-1 markers, Las+ Ech+ Spo+ StrR progeny were produced at a 61-89% frequency compared with a 1-9% frequency of StrR antibiotic producing progeny with the nic-1 or rif-3 genotypes.
(15) Mean blood lactates (n = 8) reached a steady-state (8.9 mmol.l-1 SD 1.6) during the last 20 min of exercise indicating that CP slightly overestimated lass,max, Individual blood lactates during the last 20 min of exercise were more closely related to the gamma-intercept of the CP curve (r = 0.78, P less than 0.05) than either CP (0.34, NS) or mean power output (r = 0.42, NS).
(16) A weak non-polar reversed-phase column was useful for the determination of LASs.
(17) Oil companies are standing on the doorstep of one of the world's most precious and fragile places, but we will not rest until Virunga is safe from this potential environmental disaster," said Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of WWF International.
(18) These results together with previous findings (Lassing, I., and Lindberg, U.
(19) On her website she describes herself as “an upfront, direct, and strong Yorkshire lass who passionately stands up for what she believes in”.
(20) The platelet response to labile aggregation stimulating substance (LASS, mostly thromboxane A2) was normal.