Bass vs Attenuate - What's the difference?
bass | attenuate |
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
A low spectrum of sound tones.
A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than tenor.
A male singer who sings in the bass range.
An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
To sound in a deep tone.
* 1623 [1610], (William Shakespeare), The Tempest (First Folio ed.), act III, scene iii, lines 99-99
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
The linden or lime tree.
Its bark, used for making mats.
A hassock or thick mat.
To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
* 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 40:
To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
* 1899 , , His New Mittens , ch. 4:
* 1906 , , The Malefactor , ch. 1:
To weaken.
* Coleridge
* Sir F. Palgrave
To rarefy.
* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 23:
(medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.
(electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal.
(botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
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As a proper noun bass
is an english brand of bottled pale ale.As a verb attenuate is
to reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.As an adjective attenuate is
(botany|of leaves) gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.bass
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The giant spoke in a deep, bass , rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.
Noun
(es)- Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass .
- The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
- Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass , much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
- The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (singer) basso * (clef) F clefCoordinate terms
* (voice types) soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)Derived terms
* bass clef * bass drum * bass guitar * bassline * bass music * bass note * booty bass * double bass * electric bass * figured bass * Miami bassVerb
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(That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) bas, alteration of bars, from (etyl) .Noun
Derived terms
* black bass * black sea bass * largemouth bass * sea bass * smallmouth bass * spotted bass * striped bass * white bassEtymology 3
A corruption of bast.Noun
(es)See also
* (wikipedia) English heteronyms English invariant nouns English terms with multiple etymologies ----attenuate
English
Verb
(attenuat)- A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
- Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
- Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.
- The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.
- We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.
- "It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."