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baste
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
- Homophone: based
Etymology 1
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (by extension) To coat over something.
- To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Translations
Noun
baste (plural bastes)
- A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
- 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion
- "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
- 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion
Etymology 3
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whenceDanish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare alsoSwedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) andSwedish bösta (“to thump”).Might be related French bâton (formerly baston), which means stick (English baton comes from bâton) ; see also French bastonnade, the act of beating with a stick.
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
- July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
- July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
Translations
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
Anagrams
- Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
baste
- singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen
Anagrams
- batse, besta
French
Noun
baste m (plural bastes)
- ace of clubs
Noun
baste f (plural bastes)
- basque (clothing)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bæst.
Noun
baste
- Alternative form of bast (“bast”)
Etymology 2
From Old French bast.
Noun
baste
- Alternative form of base (“illegitimacy”)
Northern Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?pas?te/
Noun
baste
- spoon
Inflection
Derived terms
- deadjabaste
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Portuguese
Verb
baste
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
- third-person singular imperative of bastar
Spanish
Verb
baste
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bastar.
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pound
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pond? (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund. Doublet of pood.
Noun
pound (plural pounds) (sometimes pound after numerals)
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- Synonym: lb
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (? 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- Synonym: lb t
- (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)
- Synonyms: hash, sharp
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- Synonyms: £, pound sterling, GBP, quid, nicker
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
- Synonym: punt
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
Usage notes
- Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
- In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
- The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Pound (the unit of mass) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pound (the UK unit of currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- crown, farthing, florin, guinea, penny, pence, shilling, sovereign, sterling
Etymology 2
From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
Noun
pound (plural pounds)
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- Synonym: animal shelter
- (metonymically) The people who work for the pound.
- (Britain) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
- Synonyms: (UK) car pound, (US) impound lot, (US) impound
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Synonym: reach
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- (Newfoundland) a division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine
- Synonym: bulk
Usage notes
- Manx English uses this word uncountably.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell
- When I short haue shorne my sowce face
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Etymology 3
From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverise”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Perhaps influenced by Etymology 2 Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund, pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.
Alternative forms
- poun, pown (obsolete or dialectal)
Verb
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- Synonyms: hammer, pelt; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- Synonyms: pulverate, triturate
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- Synonyms: bolt, down, chug; see also Thesaurus:eat, Thesaurus:drink
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- Synonyms: drill, get up in, nail, poke; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bang
Noun
pound (plural pounds)
- A hard blow.
- Synonym: pounding
Translations
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pounde, pund, punde, powund
Etymology
From Old English pund, in turn from Proto-Germanic *pund?, from Latin pond?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?nd/, /pund/
Noun
pound (plural poundes or pounden or pound)
- A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
- A pound or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
- Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.
Descendants
- English: pound
- Scots: pund, poond
References
- “p?und(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-22.
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