different between batement vs basement

English

Etymology

For abatement. See bate.

Noun

batement (plural batements)

1. abatement; diminution
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     Batement, To abate or waste a piece of Stuff, by forming of it to a designed purpose

Derived terms

• batement light

References

• batement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• abetment

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