Baste vs Broil - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between baste and broil

is that baste is to sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric while broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat.

As a noun broil is

food prepared by broiling.

baste

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(bast)

To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.

* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=June 14, author=J.F. Pirro, title=Custom Work, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}

Etymology 2

Verb

(bast)

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

(by extension) To coat over something

* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=April 20, author=Peter Margasak, title=Almost Famous, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. }}

To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare (etyl) (whence (etyl) ). Compare also (etyl) and (etyl)

Verb

(bast)

To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

* Samuel Pepys

One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

Anagrams

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broil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

To expose to great heat.

To be exposed to great heat.

Noun

(en noun)

Food prepared by broiling.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil

(obsolete) to brawl

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2

So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole

* Burke

I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.

* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)

Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.