Bash vs Bast - What's the difference?
bash | bast |
To strike heavily.
To collide.
To criticize harshly.
A large party; gala event.
An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
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Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
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* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
As an acronym bash
is (computing) name of the (the "shell") for unix-like operating system.bash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), akin to Swedish .Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
Derived terms
* bashmentEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m). See (abash).Verb
- His countenance was bold and bashed not.
Anagrams
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bast
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.