(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.
Smoky
Definition:
(superl.) Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.
(superl.) Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.
(superl.) Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.
(superl.) Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.
(superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.
(superl.) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(2) The susceptibility of American cockroaches, Periplaneta americana (L.); smoky brown cockroaches, P. fuliginosa (Serville); oriental cockroaches, Blatta orientalis L.; German cockroaches, Blattella germanica (L.); and brownbanded cockroaches, Supella longipalpa (F.), to Steinernema carpocapsae Weiser (All strain) was evaluated under laboratory conditions.
(3) That famous smoky vocal , London-inflected and adorable; punchy Paul Epworth production; eye-watering sales.
(4) Hair of a "smoky-grey" tone, clearly unrelated to greying with age, and not represented on the Fischer-Saller scale, is reported and was found to be predominantly a feature of Orcadian males.
(5) The Xuan Wei residents who used smoky coal inhaled extremely high concentrations of mostly submicron-sized particles, which can be inhaled and deposited effectively deep in the lung.
(6) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(7) The mounted head of a buffalo stared down at me beside the smoky, oak-panelled bar of the New Ambassador hotel.
(8) From a rich Indonesian rendang to a smoky Indian aubergine side dish, the ones I finally picked certainly didn't disappoint, but it was the unusual sweet and sour flavours of Angela Kim's Keralan vegetable sambar that really grabbed my attention – surely the perfect spicy, comforting Sunday supper.
(9) To evaluate indoor air contamination by cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb), we measured Cd and Pb contained in the mainstream and sidestream smoke exhaled by experimental smoking of Japanese cigarettes and also determined urinary and blood Cd and Pb levels in smokers and non-smokers and air Cd and Pb levels in smoky environments.
(10) Risks were twice as high among those who reported smoky outdoor environments, and increased in proportion to years of sleeping on beds heated by coal-burning stoves (kang), and to an overall index of indoor air pollution.
(11) Photograph: Karen Robinson for the Observer The girls worked in shifts (morning, afternoon, evening, midnight), in smoky, claustrophobic conditions.
(12) In addition, subjects' perceptions of annoyance and smokiness in the airplane cabin were also related to in-flight nicotine exposure and urinary excretion measures.
(13) A sharp-eyed blogger noticed that the picture showing volunteers apparently wrestling with a piece of timber in a smoky wood had been created in 2008 and altered in Photoshop last Saturday.
(14) If you get there for 10.30am, you can watch the artisans dive into the smoky chamber above an open fire and pull out rods hung with golden-smoked herrings, the so-called “Bornholmers”.
(15) Max Grinnell , contributor to The Rough Guide to the USA (roughguides.com, £16.99) Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina to Virginia Wandering for almost 500 miles along the Blue Ridge mountain chain from the Great Smoky Mountains national park in North Carolina to the Shenandoah national park in Virginia, this is a trip to take over several days.
(16) I thought, if I do become as successful as I hope then I would love to go back home and create something in that area, which is really one of the biggest tourist areas in the United States – the Great Smoky Mountains is the most visited national park in America .
(17) The smell is sharp and smoky, with a metallic tinge, and very, very strong.
(18) Great Smoky Mountains , North Carolina On the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, this is the most visited park in the country, attracting more than 10 million visitors in 2015.
(19) "The record business," Young sighed, in response to the invisible forces that caused him to be sitting in this smoky room on a perfectly nice day.
(20) "I was far less aware of it this time," Brydon says, part-way through his Arbroath smokie.