noun
Meaning 1
A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
baste
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/beɪst/
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rhymes with -eɪst
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homophone: based
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CMU ARPABET: B EY1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 4
To coat over something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
Examples
- July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 7
a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sewing stitch, embroidery stitch
verb
Meaning 8
cover with liquid before cooking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- baste a roast
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: moisten, wash, dampen
verb
Meaning 9
sew together loosely, with large stitches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- baste a hem
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tack
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sew, run up, sew together, stitch
verb
Meaning 10
strike violently and repeatedly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She clobbered the man who tried to attack her
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clobber, batter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beat, beat up, work over
History
Etymology
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and Swedish bösta (“to thump”). Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тропосвам (troposvam) — sew with long or loose stitches
- Catalan: embastar — sew with long or loose stitches
- Chinese Mandarin: 假縫 /假缝 — sew with long or loose stitches
- Chinese Mandarin: 疏縫 /疏缝 — sew with long or loose stitches
- Czech: stehovat — sew with long or loose stitches
- Czech: nastehovat — sew with long or loose stitches
- Finnish: harsia — sew with long or loose stitches
- French: bâtir — sew with long or loose stitches
- French: faufiler — sew with long or loose stitches
- Galician: ganduxar — sew with long or loose stitches
- German: heften — sew with long or loose stitches
- Ido: imbastar — sew with long or loose stitches
- Māori: tui rangitahi — sew with long or loose stitches
- Quechua: ch'uhtay — sew with long or loose stitches
- Romanian: însăila — sew with long or loose stitches
- Russian: смета́ть (smetátʹ) — sew with long or loose stitches
- Russian: смётывать (smjótyvatʹ) — sew with long or loose stitches
- Spanish: hilvanar — sew with long or loose stitches
- Spanish: embastar — sew with long or loose stitches
- Swedish: tråckla — sew with long or loose stitches
- Tagalog: lagwatan — sew with long or loose stitches
- Tagalog: lagwatin — sew with long or loose stitches
- Yiddish: פֿאַסטריגעווען (fastrigeven) — sew with long or loose stitches
- Bulgarian: намазвам (namazvam) — sprinkle and drip
- Bulgarian: намажа (namaža) — sprinkle and drip
- Cebuano: humol — sprinkle and drip
- Czech: polévat šťávou — sprinkle and drip
- Czech: podlévat — sprinkle and drip
- Dutch: bedruipen — sprinkle and drip
- Finnish: valella — sprinkle and drip
- German: beizen — sprinkle and drip
- German: begießen — sprinkle and drip
- Bulgarian: пердаша (perdaša) — (archaic, slang) beat with a stick
- Finnish: piestä kepillä — (archaic, slang) beat with a stick