What's the difference between bass and sound?

Bass


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Bass
  • (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.

Sound


Definition:

  • (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
  • (n.) A cuttlefish.
  • (superl.) Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
  • (superl.) Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
  • (superl.) Firm; strong; safe.
  • (superl.) Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
  • (superl.) Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
  • (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
  • (superl.) Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.
  • (superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
  • (adv.) Soundly.
  • (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.
  • (v. t.) To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
  • (v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
  • (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
  • (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
  • (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
  • (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
  • (v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
  • (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
  • (v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
  • (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
  • (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
  • (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
  • (v. t.) To signify; to import; to denote.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
  • (3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (4) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (5) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
  • (6) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (7) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
  • (8) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (9) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (10) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
  • (11) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
  • (12) Not making a sound for 24 hours pretty nearly killed me.
  • (13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (15) Endogenous sound-induced (binaural) inhibition which is suggested to be GABA-mediated is also significantly reduced in IC neurons of the GEPR.
  • (16) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (17) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (18) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
  • (20) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.