Definitions for double-bass

double-bass double bass

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Double-Bass is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 534 anagrams from letters in double-bass (-abbdelossu).

Definitions for double-bass

noun

  1. the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.

Origin of double-bass

First recorded in 1720-30

Examples for double-bass

Every one looked at the double bass, but all his strings were for the moment intact.

The practical compass of the double bass extends from (real sounds) with all chromatic intervals.

The double bass grumbled out its broken tones, the violins rang clear between, the flutes trilled noisily.

The double bass differs from the other members of the string family in that it is tuned in fourths instead of in fifths.

If a stellar-mass black hole is a violin, an IMBH is a double bass.

The technical capabilities of the double bass are necessarily somewhat more limited than those of the violoncello.

The technique of the double bass presents certain difficulties inherent in an instrument of such large proportions.

Dragonetti played on a Gaspar di Salo and a Stradiuarius double bass.

Only this morning I barked my shins something cruel trying to catch hold of a boy who was playing the banjo on the double bass.

It is made exactly, in all its proportions, like a double–bass, but it is twelve feet in height.

Word Value for double-bass
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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