different between basement vs casement

English

Etymology

base +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt
• Hyphenation: base?ment

Noun

basement (plural basements)

1. A floor of a building below ground level.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

3. (geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
4. (sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.

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• beastmen, beatsmen

English

Noun

casement (plural casements)

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.

   • For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.^Wp
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

     Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.

   • 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night

     The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

3. (military) Occasionally seen as a usage error due to the similarity of the words: A casemate.

Hyponyms

• (window): French casement

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References

• casement at OneLook Dictionary Search
• casement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• casement windows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• can't seem, cæments, menacest