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Definitions: Basting |
BastingNoun1. Loose temporary stitches. 2. Moistening a roast as it is cooking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "basting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | BASTING. A beating. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BastingSynonyms: baste (n), tacking (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Basting |
| Specialty definitions using "basting": Baste, basting marker, BASTING PULLER, BASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, bulb baster ♦ DEMONSTRATOR, SEWING TECHNIQUES ♦ JUMPBASTING SEWING MACHINE ♦ LINING BASTER, JUMPBASTING ♦ THREAD MARKER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Basting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "Basting" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 86.36% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
basting | 13 |
basting mop | 8 |
basting brush | 6 |
basting sauce | 5 |
basting rib sauce | 4 |
basting syringe | 3 |
barbecue basting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "basting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 涂抹 (Baste, Basted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verprügelnd (drubbing, lambasting, slogging, trouncing, walloping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fércelés (tack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仕付け糸 (tacking), 仕付け (discipline, rice planting, tacking), 仮縫い (temporary sewing), 下縫い (temporary sewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | したぬい (temporary sewing), しつけいと (tacking), しつけ (breeding, discipline, home discipline, rice planting, tacking, training, upbringing), かりぬい (temporary sewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bastal (baste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astingbay şular. (various references) paliza (bashing, beating, beating up, drubbing, flogging, hammering, hiding, leathering, licking, pasting, plastering, punishment, slap, smacking, thrashing, walloping, whack), hilván. (various references) teyel (backstitch, tacking, whip), kötek (bashing, beating, fustigation, lacing, whacking, whaling), dayak (bashing, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), dövme (battering, beaten, beating, dressing down, forged, hammered, hammering, hiding, pound, pounding, swaging, tanning, tattoo, wrought). (various references) kцk (root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "basting": bastings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "basting": lambasting. (additional references) | |
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"Basting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astengo, asting, Baksteen, banteng, Bantung, Bastan, basteing, Basti, bastiano, Bastienne, bastina, bastling, Bastogne, beastling, beestung, bestine, Bustino, Kasting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: basing, bating, gainst, giants, sating. | |
-2 letters: agist, angst, antis, baits, bangs, basin, bints, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, nabis, sabin, saint, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tings. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, bags, bait, bang, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bigs, bins, bint, bits, gabs, gain, gait, gast, gats, gibs, gins, gist, gits, gnat, isba, nabs, nags, nibs, nits, sain, sang, sati, sign, sing, snag, snib, snit, stab, stag, tabs, tags, tain, tang, tans, ting, tins. | |
-4 letters: abs, ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, bag, ban, bas, bat, big, bin, bis, bit, gab, gan, gas, gat, gib, gin, git, ins, its, nab, nag, nib, nit, sab, sag, sat, sib, sin, sit, tab, tag, tan, tas, tin, tis. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, as, at, ba, bi, in, is, it, na, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bastings, battings, beatings, blasting, boasting, boatings, dingbats, stabbing, stabling. | |
+2 letters: absenting, bangtails, bantlings, baptising, basseting, beastings, blastings, breasting, stabbings, stablings, sublating, tangibles. | |
+3 letters: abiogenist, abstaining, absterging, antibusing, ballasting, bassetting, besteading, botanising, breathings, lambasting, sabotaging, sibilating, sunbathing. | |
+4 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abridgments, abrogations, abstracting, abstricting, babysitting, backbitings, backlisting, brigantines, brutalising, geobotanies, geobotanist, grubstaking, iceboatings, intangibles, interabangs, obfuscating, obligations, outbargains, outboasting, sailboating, showboating, stabilizing, stablishing, stringybark, subjugating, subjugation, sublimating, subrogating, subrogation, subtotaling, subtracting, tobogganist. | |
+5 letters: abridgements, absolutizing, amblygonites, backstabbing, backstopping, barnstorming, bastardising, bastardizing, bastinadoing, bearbaitings, bespattering, bestializing, billingsgate, blacklisting, breakfasting, broadcasting, bullbaitings, drumbeatings, establishing, geobotanists, haptoglobins, interrobangs, langbeinites, libertinages, masturbating, objurgations, sailboatings, sandblasting, speedboating, starboarding, stringybarks, subjugations, subrogations, subtotalling, talebearings, tangibleness, thingamabobs, tobogganings, tobogganists, transcribing, urbanologist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 73 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ... - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678586758073 |
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