Bass (pl. ) of Bass |
Bass (n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species. |
Bass (n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass. |
Bass (n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass. |
Bass (n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish. |
Bass (n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood |
Bass (n.) A hassock or thick mat. |
Bass (a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone. |
Bass (a.) The lowest part in a musical composition. |
Bass (a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. |
Bass (a.) Deep or grave in tone. |
Bass (v. t.) To sound in a deep tone. |
Bass drum () The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Bass horn () A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. |
Bass-relief (n.) Some as Bas-relief. |
Bass viol () A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello. |
Black bass () An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei |
Black bass () The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3. |
Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick |
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum (n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum (n.) A tea party |
Drum (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum (v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major () . |
Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major () The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Sea bass () A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. |
Sea bass () A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile) |
Sub-bass (n.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ |
Thorough bass () The representation of chords by figures placed under the base |
freshwater bass | North American food and game fish |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
black bass | widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) |
Kentucky black bass spotted black bass Micropterus pseudoplites | a variety of black bass |
smallmouth smallmouth bass smallmouthed bass smallmouth black bass smallmouthed black bass Micropterus dolomieu | a variety of black bass, the angle of the jaw falls below the eye |
largemouth largemouth bass largemouthed bass largemouth black bass largemouthed black bass Micropterus salmoides | a large black bass, the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye |
bass | nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes |
yellow bass Morone interrupta | North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass |
sea bass | any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin |
blackmouth bass Synagrops bellus | small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
black sea bass black bass Centropistes striata | bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
striped bass striper Roccus saxatilis rockfish | marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes, migrates upriver to spawn, sometimes placed in the genus Morone |
stone bass wreckfish Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
drum drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
striped drum Equetus pulcher | a kind of drumfish |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
bass | the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments |
bass clarinet | a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet |
bass drum gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bass fiddle bass viol bull fiddle double bass contrabass string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
bass guitar | the guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch |
bass horn sousaphone tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument |
bongo bongo drum | a small drum, played with the hands |
brake drum drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
drum membranophone tympan | a musical percussion instrument, usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end |
drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
drum printer | a line printer in which the type is mounted on a rotating drum that contains a full character set for each printing position |
drum sander electric sander sander smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
snare drum snare side drum | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
tenor drum tom-tom | any of various drums with small heads |
viola da gamba gamba bass viol | viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello |
bass | the lowest part of the musical range |
bass clef F clef | a clef that puts the F below middle C on the fourth line of a staff |
bass bass voice basso | the lowest adult male singing voice |
bass bass part | the lowest part in polyphonic music |
ground bass | a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated |
figured bass basso continuo continuo thorough bass | a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played |
drum | the sound of a drum, he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes |
paradiddle roll drum roll | the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously |
freshwater bass bass | any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) |
largemouth bass | flesh of largemouth bass |
smallmouth bass | flesh of smallmouth bass |
sea bass bass | the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae |
striped bass striper | caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States |
bass basso | an adult male singer with the lowest voice |
drum major | the leader of a marching band or drum corps |
drum majorette majorette | a female drum major |