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Baster

Definitions: Baster

Baster

Noun

1. A cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy.

2. A sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches.

3. A tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Baster" is a common misspelling or typo for: banter, barter, baste, basted, batter, blaster, boaster, buster.

Synonym: Baster

Synonym: tacker (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: bulb baster (personal care & hotels).

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Crosswords: Baster

Specialty definitions using "baster": ARMHOLE BASTER, JUMPBASTINGBASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, bulb basterCANVAS BASTER, JUMPBASTING, COLLAR BASTER, JUMPBASTINGLINING BASTER, JUMPBASTING. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Baster

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Rehoboth Baster nation of Namibia (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Baster

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Namibia

The principal groups are the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero/Himba, Damara, mixed race ("Colored" and Rehoboth Baster), white (Afrikaner, German, and Portuguese), Nama, Caprivian (Lozi), Bushman, and Tswana. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Baster

The following table summarizes the usage of "baster" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BasterLast name17041,378
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Baster

Expression using "baster": bulb baster. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Baster

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

baster

28

turkey baster

17

baster block

6

baster iso

5

baster sound

3

baster insemination turkey

3

baster dolly

3

baster pregnant turkey

2

baster poindexter

2

baster beer can

2

baster glass

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Baster

Derivations

Words beginning with "baster": basters. (additional references)

Words ending with "baster": alabaster. (additional references)

Words containing "baster": alabasters. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Baster

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: barest, breast, tabers.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-r-s-t"

-1 letter: abets, aster, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, betas, braes, brats, rates, saber, sabre, stare, taber, tabes, tares, tears.

-2 letters: abet, arbs, ares, arse, arts, ates, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rebs, rest, rets, sabe, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, stab, star, tabs, tare, tars, tear, teas, tsar.

-3 letters: abs, arb, are, ars, art, ate, bar, bas, bat, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, ers, eta, ras, rat, reb, res, ret, sab, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tab, tae, tar, tas, tea.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, as, at, ba, be, er, es, et, re, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: abaters, abreast, arbutes, baiters, banters, barbets, barites, barrets, barters, barytes, basters, bathers, batters, beaters, berates, berthas, betrays, blaster, boaster, boaters, borates, bravest, brawest, breasts, breaths, bursate, dabster, labrets, rabbets, rebaits, rebates, rebatos, sorbate, stabber, stabler, terbias.

 

+2 letters: abetters, abettors, aborters, abreacts, absenter, absterge, abstruse, abutters, acerbest, antbears, arbalest, arbelest, arbiters, backrest, baluster, banister, barghest, barguest, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, baronets, bartends, basketry, batchers, battlers, bearcats, bedstraw, berettas, bestiary, birettas, blasters, blastier, blathers, blatters, bleaters, bloaters, boasters, brachets, brackets, braggest, brakiest, brashest, brattles, breadths, breasted, breathes, broadest, bromates, cabarets, cabestro, cabresta, cabresto, dabsters, debaters, drabbest, drabbets, halberts, lamberts, librates, probates, rarebits, ratsbane, rebaters, redbaits, retables, rustable, saboteur, sorbates, sortable, stabbers, stablers, storable, sybarite, tabarets, taborers, taborets, tribades, typebars, urbanest, vibrates.

 

+3 letters: aberrants, abrogates, abruptest, absenters, absoluter, absorbent, abstainer, absterged, absterges, abstruser, absurdest, acerbates, adsorbate, adsorbent, alabaster, ambiverts, arbalests, arbelests, arbutuses, ascorbate, astrolabe, aubretias, aubrietas, backrests, bacterias, bacterins, balloters, balusters, banisters, bannerets, bannister, banterers, baptizers, baratheas, barbettes, bareboats, barghests, barguests, baritones, barraters, barrenest, barretors, barrettes, barrister, barterers, barytones, bathrobes, batteners, batteries, beastlier, becarpets, bedstraws, bergamots, berrettas, bespatter, betatrons, betatters, betrayals, betrayers, bevatrons, birrettas, bleariest, boracites, bracelets, bractlets, braggiest, brainiest, branniest, brashiest, brassiest, brattices, brattiest, braunites, brawliest, brawniest, breadnuts, breakfast, breakouts, breasting, breathers, brocatels, browbeats, brutalise, butyrates, bystander, cabernets, cabestros, cabrestas, cabrestos, cabrettas, carburets, catbriers, combaters, crabbiest, crabmeats, cubatures, diatribes, drawtubes, drumbeats, eurybaths, fireboats, firebrats, grabbiest, grubstake, herbalist, laborites, liberates, marbliest, observant, obtainers, obturates, outbraves, outbreaks, overbeats, portables, rabbiters, ratsbanes, rebaptism, rebuttals, redbreast, reobtains, saboteurs, saturable, sawtimber, scrutable, steerable, storables, streambed, strobilae, subaltern, submarket, subrogate, substrate, sunbather, sybarites, taborines, tabourers, tabourets, tarbushes, teaboards, terabytes, tribesman, trustable, turbaries, unstabler, urbanites, verbalist, vertebras, waterbeds, ytterbias.

 

+4 letters: abductores, abnegators, abruptness, absorbents, absorptive, abstainers, absterging, abstracted, abstracter, abstricted, abstrusely, abstrusest, acerbities, adsorbates, adsorbents, adumbrates, aerobatics, alabasters, algebraist, ambrotypes, antirabies, approbates, arbitrages, arbitrates, arboretums, ascorbates, astrolabes, attributes, babysitter, backbiters, backstreet, backstroke, backwaters, bacterizes, bacteroids, bairnliest, balustrade, banditries, bandmaster, banistered, bannisters, banqueters, baptistery, barbitones, barometers, barquettes, barratries, barretries, barristers, bartenders, basketries, basketwork, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bathwaters, beefeaters, bespatters, bestiaries, betrothals, bifurcates, birthdates, birthrates, blastoderm, blastomere, blastopore, blatherers, brachiates, bracteoles, brambliest, branchiest, branchlets, brattiness, breadstick, breadstuff, breakfasts, breastbone, breastwork, breathiest, breathings, breathless, brecciates, broadsheet, brominates, brutalised, brutalises, brutalizes, bushmaster, butterfats, bystanders, cabriolets, calibrates, carbamates, carbonates, carpetbags, celebrants, celebrates, cerebrates, corybantes, debarments, disbarment, eggbeaters, elaborates, exuberates, fabricates, fastballer, ferryboats, gangbuster, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakes, hartebeest, heartbeats, heartburns, herbalists, hereabouts, hibernates, iceboaters, imbricates, inbreathes, inebriants, inebriates, inhabiters, interbasin, liberalist, liberators, litterbags, lobsterman, lubricates, masturbate, obituaries, objurgates, observants, pasteboard, perborates, powerboats, rabbinates, rabbitries, rabidities, rebaptisms, rebaptizes, redbreasts, reinhabits, reprobates, resectable, resemblant, resettable, restorable, riverboats, rouseabout, rubricates, sailboater, sawtimbers, shortbread, skateboard, softballer, stabilizer, strawberry, streambeds, strippable, subalterns, subcentral, subchapter, subcordate, submarkets, subprimate, subrogated, subrogates, substrates, subtracted, subtracter, subtrahend, subvariety, sunbathers, sweetbread, sweetbriar, tablatures, tablewares, tambourers, tarbooshes, teaberries, trabeculas, transcribe, tribulates, tribunates, turbinates, turntables, urbanities, verbalists, vestibular, warbonnets, waterbirds, waterbucks, workbasket, worktables.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Baster


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 73 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    ...    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366785867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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