different between knock vs baste

English

Etymology

From Middle English knocken, knokken, from Old English cnocian, ?ecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *knuk?n? (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *kneu- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge, Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)

1. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

2. A sharp impact.

3. (figuratively) Criticism.
   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.

4. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
5. (cricket) A batsman's innings.

6. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)

1. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
2. (transitive, colloquial) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.

3. (transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
4. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
5. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."

6. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Yola

Noun

knock

1. Alternative form of knaugh

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)

1. 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)

1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (by extension) To coat over something.
3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

Translations

Noun

baste (plural bastes)

1. 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.

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)

1. (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.

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

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen

Anagrams

• batse, besta

French

Noun

baste m (plural bastes)

1. ace of clubs

Noun

baste f (plural bastes)

1. basque (clothing)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bæst.

Noun

baste

1. Alternative form of bast (“bast”)

Etymology 2

From Old French bast.

Noun

baste

1. 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

1. 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

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
3. third-person singular imperative of bastar

Spanish

Verb

baste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bastar.