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# bass

«bass» in Mova's school dictionary: **the lowest notes or sounds in music** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bass, basses); adjective (bass); noun (a bass — fish, plural bass)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bass (said «base») means the lowest notes or sounds in music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#m1)

2) A bass is a bass guitar or a double bass, a large string instrument that plays low notes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#m2)

3) A bass is a man with a very deep singing voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#m3)

4) A bass (said «bas», to rhyme with «gas») is a kind of fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, the bass line is the low part that keeps the rhythm; the bass clef is a sign for low notes. In science, low pitch means slow vibrations. Anglers catch bass in lakes and the sea.

### examples

- Turn the bass down — the windows are shaking! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x1)
- My brother plays bass in a band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x2)
- He sings bass in the choir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x3)
- We caught a sea bass off the pier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x4)
- The bass drum went boom boom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x5)
- Low notes are written in the bass clef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x6)
- The first to dance in the hot oil were the mullets, the bass followed, then the whitefish, the flounders, and the anchovies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/#x7)

### note

One spelling, two pronunciations: «base» (music) and «bas» (fish). Homophone: bass (music) sounds like «base». Fish plural: bass.

### In the corpora

- [The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/6/)
- [In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/10/)
- [Fast wobbles sound high and slow wobbles sound low, so a tiny ukulele squeaks and a huge double bass booms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.