Noun: bass
| Singular | bass |
| Plural | basses; bass |
Sample Sentences
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Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
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The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
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Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
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The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
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The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
Nouns inflected like bass
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
5. Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
6. Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
7. Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
8. Latin basis
9. Old French basebor.
10. Middle English base
11. English base
12. ▲
13. Italian bassoinflu.
14. English bass
15. A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
Verbs referencing "bass"
German Nouns
Barsch, Finnish Nouns
bassi, Portuguese Nouns
baixo.