different between fasting vs basting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæst??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??st??/
• Rhymes: -æst??, -??st??

Verb

fasting

1. Present participle and gerund of fast.

Noun

fasting (countable and uncountable, plural fastings)

1. abstinence from food
   • 1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

     Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?st??/
• Rhymes: -e?st??

Noun

basting (plural bastings)

1. The act by which a food item is basted.

   Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out.

2. (archaic) A (physical) beating.

Verb

basting

1. present participle of baste

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Basting”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.

Anagrams

• tangibs

French

Alternative forms

• bastaing

Etymology

From Old French bastir (“to construct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.t???/, /bas.t??/

Noun

basting m (plural bastings)

1. A joist used to carry other planks of wood.

Further reading

• “basting” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).