What's the difference between basso and lasso?

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.

Lasso


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.
  • (v. t.) To catch with a lasso.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main advantages of the Steffens lasso loop are its olive-tipped, 45 degrees-angled Tiemann guide, which allows easier and less traumatic passage above the ureteral stone, the tri-part lasso, which affords a better grasp of the stone, and the outlet for urine drainage.
  • (2) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (3) The following pesticides (herbicides) were studied--afalon, dimid, Lasso, patoran, propanide and Ramrod.
  • (4) His closest challenger – the former banker and rightwing candidate Guillermo Lasso – had only 11.6%.
  • (5) Over the course of these long transits of time and geography, the purpose of ideas and objects (like that of the gold coin in India) was frequently changed, lassoed by the local populace for their own use.
  • (6) Esteban Lasso, executive director of Canadian-based "cleft care" charity Transforming Faces, said in a statement : "It's disheartening that a major motion picture would perpetuate this negative perception and we hope that in future, birth defects and facial differences will not be used to portray 'evil' characters."
  • (7) There are lessons in rodeo, including lassoing and the frustrating pursuit of a steer with a ribbon on its tail.
  • (8) Loose PIP joint: residual flexion from 0 degree to 20 degrees: MP capsular shortening, H shaped, and flexor pulley advancement; "Lasso" operation: a single slip of FDS by finger or one FDS for two fingers; Bunnell-Litter's operation: one FDS for 4 fingers; Giraudeau's operation: FCR + fascia lata; Brand's operation: 1st (ECRL) or 2nd (ECRB) + tendon graft; Palande's operation: ECRB + many tailed fascia lata graft fixed at the muscle tendon junction.
  • (9) It is more a stretching out – like having an elastic band on the end of your fingers and lassoing, far out, things much bigger than you."
  • (10) Chapter 2: now picture yourself throwing a glowing lasso of light around its neck.
  • (11) Twenty-six cases of Zancolli's "lasso" procedure are presented.
  • (12) Because I was an only child these games were one-sided and usually involved either tomahawking the dog or trying to round him up with my string lasso.
  • (13) Hence, the data suggest that the components of the Lasso formulation have no effect on the human immune system.
  • (14) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
  • (15) Male Swiss mice, 25-30 g, were utilized to define some of the behavioral effects of the herbicides Lasso [alachlor 43%; (A)], Basalin [fluchloralin 45%; (F)], Premerge 3 [dinoseb 51%; (D)], and the fungicide Maneb-80 [maneb 80%; (M)].
  • (16) And the spaghetti lasso, which was the hardest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was so crazy’ … Alden Ehrenreich’s character out of his comfort zone with Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar!
  • (17) The iris-lasso is simple to maneuver, suitable for microsurgery, and particularly useful in patients with small pupils.
  • (18) Our experience with this lasso loop has shown this instrument to be a valuable addition to other endourological methods.
  • (19) In continuation of the author's work on 'lasso' principle, flexor digitorum superficialis split in to four tails and looped around A1 pulley has been described in this article to correct the ulnar claw and to correct the total claw hand when used along with opponensplasty as a one stage technique.
  • (20) Like something out of a spaghetti western, the dustup had already seen several climaxes before its finale: cows lassoed by government wranglers, women knocked to the ground and men shot with stun guns.

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