What's the difference between basso and singer?

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.

Singer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, singes.
  • (n.) One employed to singe cloth.
  • (n.) A machine for singeing cloth.
  • (n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Bi Kidude (Fatuma binti Baraka), singer, born around 1910; died 17 April 2013
  • (2) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
  • (3) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
  • (4) Photograph: Instagram Callander, who was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, sent a Twitter message to Grande on Sunday, saying: “SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU TOMORROW.” She had previously posted a photograph of herself with the singer taken in 2015 on her Instagram account.
  • (5) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
  • (6) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
  • (7) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (8) "[She] was in the hospital, as far as I could see, for absolutely no reason," the singer said.
  • (9) I learned how to join in with the conversation, and trained myself to pay attention to the other things that were going on apart from the singer.
  • (10) Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, who made a return to European stages at the MTV Europe Music awards in Milan on Sunday, abruptly canceled his concert in Oslo on Thursday night after performing just one song.
  • (11) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
  • (12) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
  • (13) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (14) It was found that in addition to the immediate decrease of retrograde labelling with HRP in the cortical projections from the deafferented A-laminae of the dorsal part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (Singer et al.
  • (15) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
  • (16) However, the public response to the ruling might just potentially help the singer achieve her lawsuit’s other goal – to end her contract with Kemosabe.
  • (17) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
  • (18) "Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
  • (19) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
  • (20) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .

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