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PRONUNCIATION OF BASS-RELIEF

bass-relief  [ˌbeɪsrɪˈliːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BASS-RELIEF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bass-Relief is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BASS-RELIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bass-relief

Relief

Relief, or relievo rilievo, is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone or wood is a lowering of the field, leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised. The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background, which is a time-consuming exercise with little artistic effect if the lowered background is left plain, as is often the case. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, especially in stone. In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mache the form can be just added to or raised up from the background, and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BASS-RELIEF


bas-relief
ˌbɑːrɪˈliːf
belief
bɪˈliːf
broadleaf
ˈbrɔːdˌliːf
cloverleaf
ˈkləʊvəˌliːf
demirelief
ˌdɛmɪrɪˈliːf
disbelief
ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf
disleaf
dɪsˈliːf
drop-leaf
ˈdrɒpˌliːf
flyleaf
ˈflaɪˌliːf
leaf
liːf
lief
liːf
longleaf
ˈlɒŋliːf
misbelief
ˌmɪsbɪˈliːf
nonbelief
ˌnɒnbɪˈliːf
oakleaf
ˈəʊkˌliːf
overleaf
ˌəʊvəˈliːf
relief
rɪˈliːf
self-belief
ˌsɛlfbɪˈliːf
unbelief
ˌʌnbɪˈliːf
waterleaf
ˈwɔːtərˌliːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BASS-RELIEF

bass flute
bass guitar
bass guitarist
bass horn
bass player
bass response
Bass Strait
bass trombone
bass tuba
bass viol
bass-baritone
Basse-Normandie
Basse-Terre
Bassein
Bassenthwaite
basser
Basses-Alpes
basset
basset horn
basset hound

WORDS THAT END LIKE BASS-RELIEF

comic relief
debt relief
disaster relief
executive relief
high relief
low relief
mortgage relief
on relief
out-relief
outdoor relief
pain relief
photo relief
retirement relief
taper relief
tax relief
transitional relief

Synonyms and antonyms of bass-relief in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bass-relief» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BASS-RELIEF

Find out the translation of bass-relief to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bass-relief from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bass-relief» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

低音救济
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bajo relieve
570 millions of speakers

English

bass-relief
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बास राहत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإغاثة باس -
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

барельеф
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baixo -relevo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষোদাই
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bas-relief
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelepasan bass
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bass - Relief
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

低音浮き彫り
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

베이스 구호
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bass-relief
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bass- cứu trợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாஸ் நிவாரண
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बास-आराम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarım kabartma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bassorilievo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

płaskorzeźba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

барельєф
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bas -relief
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μπάσο - ανακούφιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bas - verligting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bass -relief
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bass - lettelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bass-relief

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BASS-RELIEF»

The term «bass-relief» is used very little and occupies the 173.565 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BASS-RELIEF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bass-relief

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASS-RELIEF»

Discover the use of bass-relief in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bass-relief and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Thorwaldsen and His Works: Containing 365 Engravings, with ...
THoRWALDSEN has in this celebrated bass-relief represented the quiet, silent night under the image of a handsome woman, who with drooping head and closed eyes flies About her head a piece of cloth is tied, beneath which a wreath of the ...
Just Mathias Thiele, 1869
2
Museum Worsleyanum; Or a Collection of Antique ...
Page. Arruuwncounr. Bovsn . Jupiter and Minerva - Hercules - - Protesilaus and Laodamia Sepulchral Bass-reliefs Antique Syren - Telephus - - Cecrops and his three Daughters Bass-relief found at Eleusis Annual Procession at Megara Pluto  ...
Richard Sir Worsley, Ennio Quirino Visconti, 1824
3
An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-relieves, Cinerary ...
A BASS-RELIEF. This is in the same state as when first found. It was so much decayed, as not to be capable of being restored, for which reason a model was made from it. — See No. cclxi. It is said to represent Silenus and Bacchanalians with ...
Henry Blundell, 1803
4
The Librarian; Being an Account of Scarce, Valuable, and ...
Bass-relief found at Eleusis. Annual Procession at Megara. Pluto. Cherion. Moschus. Bass-relief in Terra Cotta. A Bull. Bass-relief found in Paros. Athenian Tripod. Fragment of Theseus. Bass-relief at Ephesus. A Beard in Marble. Antique votive ...
James Savage, 1808
5
The Librarian
Hercules. . Protesilaus and Laodamia. Sepulchral Bass-reliefs. Antique Syren. Telephus. Cecrops and his three Daughters. Bass-relief found at Eleusis. Annual Procession at Megara. Pluto. Cherion. Moschus. Bass-relief in Terra Cotta. A Bull.
James G. Savage, 1808
6
Librarian, Being an Account of Scarce, Valuable, and Useful ...
Cecrops and his three Daughters. Bass-relief found at Eleusis. Annual Procession at Megara. Pluto. Cherion. Moschus. Bass-relief in Terra Cotta. A Bull. Bass-relief found in Paros. AthenianTripod. Fragment of Theseus. Bass-relief at Ephesus.
James Savage, 1808
7
A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches: ...
But we must conceive, that a proper light ought to be chosen for each sort of bass -relief, from this consideration,, that the light is not equally good every where : here suits a bass-relief in a deep niche, there one less rising* and here again one ...
Gérard de Lairesse, William Marshall Craig, 1817
8
Encyclopædia americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
Bass-Relief (Ital. basso relievo) ; synonymous with relief; figures, more or less elevated, in stone, plaster, clay or metal, upon a flat surface. Bass-relief properly signifies the least elevation ; haut-relief, or alto relievo, the highest, in which the fig- ...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1854
9
The Antiquarian: Or, The Guide for Foreigners to Go the ...
as well as the large bass-relief of S. Emeren- z/ana in the. third chapel • The bass -relief above the high altar is a work of Domenico Guidi The other bass-relief in the next chapel representing S. Cecilia is by Antonio Raggi As for the S.
Angelo Dalmazzoni, 1803
10
Encyclopædia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
Bass-Relief (Ital. basso relievo) ; synonymous with relief; figures, more or less elevated, in stone, plaster, clay or metal, upon a flat surface. Bass-relief properly signifies the least elevation ; haut-rehef, or alto relievo, the highest, in which the ...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1840

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASS-RELIEF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bass-relief is used in the context of the following news items.
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gregory raymond halili carves skulls into mother-of-pearl shells
... the skull takes shape; following the contours of the bass-relief, layers of oil paints add depth, shadow and subtle detail to the facial likeness. «Designboom, Aug 14»
2
Hanging gardens of Babylon actually in Ninevah
Luckily, however, an artist employed by Layard had already drawn the bass-relief - and that drawing, recently recognised by Dr. Dalley as ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, May 13»
3
In Ghana: 200 Nigerians will spend Yuletide in jail
The gift was a miniature bass-relief sculpture carved out of a cow-horn. Interestingly, the portrait on a pedestal showed some semblance of the ... «Daily Sun, Dec 12»
4
The labyrinthine streets of Carcassonne
... it houses the siege stone, a bass-relief fragment illustrating a siege and said to commemorate the death of Simon de Montfort. This is just one ... «hellomagazine.com, Dec 11»

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