bass
/beɪs/ noun C2- A low spectrum of sound tones. · Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
- A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. · The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
- One who sings in the bass range. · Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
- An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a bass guitar, double bass, electric bass, or bass synthesiser. · The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
- The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C.
Plural basses
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They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.
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