String vs Bass - What's the difference?

string | bass |

As a noun string

is thong (as undergarment or swimwear).

As a proper noun bass is

an english brand of bottled pale ale.

string

English

Noun

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

* Prior

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

a violin string

a bowstring

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages

* Gibbon

a string of islands

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

(countable) A series of items or events.

a string of successes

(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

(music, countable) A stringed instrument.

(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)

no strings attached

(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics

(slang) cannabis or marijuana

A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

The points made in a game of billiards.

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

(Milton)

A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

* Francis Bacon

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

* Bible, Mark vii. 35

The string of his tongue was loosed.

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

the strings of beans

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

(Ure)

(architecture) A stringcourse.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* score string * second string

Synonyms

* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisos

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

To put (items) on a string.

You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.

To put strings on (something).

It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.

Synonyms

* (put on a string): thread * (put strings on): lace

Derived terms

* cosmic string * heartstrings * string along * string band * string quartet * string up * string vest * stringy

External links

* (wikipedia "string") * ----

bass

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.

The giant spoke in a deep, bass , rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.

Noun

(es)

A low spectrum of sound tones.

Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass .

A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than tenor.

The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.

A male singer who sings in the bass range.

Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass , much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.

An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.

The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.

The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.

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 clef

Coordinate 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 bass

Verb

To sound in a deep tone.

* 1623 [1610], (William Shakespeare), The Tempest (First Folio ed.), act III, scene iii, lines 99-99

and the Thunder
(That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd
The name of Pro?per : it did ba?e my Tre?pa??e

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bas, alteration of bars, from (etyl) .

Noun

The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.

Derived terms

* black bass * black sea bass * largemouth bass * sea bass * smallmouth bass * spotted bass * striped bass * white bass

Etymology 3

A corruption of bast.

Noun

(es)

The linden or lime tree.

Its bark, used for making mats.

A hassock or thick mat.