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. |
Double (a.) Twofold |
Double (a.) Being in pairs |
Double (a.) Divided into two |
Double (a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. |
Double (adv.) Twice |
Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like |
Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle |
Double (a.) To be the double of |
Double (a.) To pass around or by |
Double (a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. |
Double (v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value |
Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track |
Double (v. i.) To play tricks |
Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake |
Double (n.) Twice as much |
Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.) |
Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together |
Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues |
Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another |
Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence |
Double (n.) Double beer |
Double (n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. |
Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players |
Double (n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites. |
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions |
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart. |
Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelled |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
Double-breasted (a.) Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side |
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge. |
double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
double stopping | stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time |
line-drive double line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
double two-base hit two-bagger two-baser | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base, he hit a double to deep centerfield |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
double leg circle | a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels |
twin bill doubleheader double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
double dribble | an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop) |
double Dutch | the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners |
daily double | a single bet on two horse races in the same day |
double reverse | (American football) a running play in which a first reverse is followed by a second reverse |
double play | the act of getting two players out on one play |
double entry double-entry bookkeeping | bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another |
double cross doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
duplicity double-dealing | acting in bad faith, deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another |
double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
doubling double | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of , I decided his double was a bluff |
double take | a delayed reaction indicating surprise |
double jeopardy | the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried, prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution |
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 |
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 |
a bus autobus coach charabanc double-decker jitney motorbus motorcoach omnibus passenger vehicle | a vehicle carrying many passengers, used for public transport, he always rode the bus to work |
cassette player | electronic equipment for playing cassettes |
CD player | a stand-alone piece of electronic equipment that either has its own display or attaches to a television set |
contrabassoon contrafagotto double bassoon | the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family |
double bed | a bed wide enough to accommodate two sleepers |
double-bitted ax double-bitted axe Western ax Western axe | an ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head |
double boiler double saucepan | two saucepans, one fitting inside the other |
double-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap enough for two separate rows of buttons |
double-breasted suit | a suit with a double-breasted jacket |
double clinch | a clinch with two loops |