(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.
Tuba
Definition:
(n.) An ancient trumpet.
(n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.
Example Sentences:
(1) agents from tuba with, conversely, frequent isolation of these agents (34.7%) from cervical swabs.
(2) In children with recurrent secretory otitis media (SOM) a mechanical malfunction of the Tuba Eustachii (by adenoids, myogenous palatotubal insufficiency, persistent cartilaginous collapse of the tube) should be taken into consideration as well as immunological factors of the lymphatic structures of the pharynx which may influence the tubotympanal mucosa.
(3) Topographical relationships and size of the arteries of the mesovarium and mesosalpinx were evaluated from the point of view of their usefulness in microsurgical operations on the oviduct (tuba uterina).
(4) The conclusion drawn out is that it does exist a correlation between the kind of register and the forced aperture of the ostium tubae.
(5) The numbers of patients admitted to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, in Tuba City, Arizona, with deficits in weight for their chronological ages, marasmus, and kwashiorkor were compared during two 5-year-periods, 1963 to 1967 and 1969 to 1973.
(6) Patulous Eustachian tube (tuba aperta) is a distressing condition for the patient with such symptoms as autophony and a sensation of fullness in the ear.
(7) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(8) This often stressed symptom of amber discharge or hydrops tubae profluens could not be elicited in any patient.
(9) "And my stomach was churning with the sound of the low tuba."
(10) Our findings that the ventilation of the ear is in most cases blocked at the diaphragma and not at the tube leads to questions on the one hand regarding the function of diaphragma and to the opinion on the other that the ventilation system of the middle ear is divided in two sections by the diaphragma: An anterior section including tuba and hypomesotympanon and a posterior including epitympanon, aditus, antrum and the pneumatic cells of mastoid and pyramid.
(11) If the adhesions include the proximal end of the tubae, the contrast pooling may be absent.
(12) "Perhaps the Premier League could pay Stewie Griffin to follow him around with a tuba."
(13) Included are measurements of distances of the Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditivae to the Canalis palatinus major and the upper surface of the Palatum molle.
(14) The level of tubA transcript remains the same throughout the cell cycle.
(15) Macroscopical and microscopical examinations revealed a hernia-like prolaps of a part of the wall of the tuba uterina across a hole in the myometrium of the fundus uteri.
(16) Because of high rates of acute pharyngitis in Tuba City, AZ, at the Navajo Indian reservation, the use of rapid diagnostic test was prospectively evaluated.
(17) Molecular disruption of tubA results in a block in nuclear division whereas in tubB it gives rise to abnormal cell and nuclear morphology.
(18) The national anthems: Flower of Scotland is given a nice plodding bassline on parping tuba, while the Georgian is a close-harmony affair, a bit like the theme to Eurovision, plus a couple of chord changes which throw the casual listener.
(19) We have isolated and analyzed the tubA and tubB alpha-tubulin genes of Aspergillus nidulans.
(20) The epithelium of the ampulla tubae of the Texel ewe was studied during the oestrous cycle by light microscopy.