Baste vs Conquer - What's the difference?
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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
, passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}
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
, 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.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
* Samuel Pepys
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To overcome an abstract obstacle.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
To acquire by force of arms, win in war.
Baste is a related term of conquer.
As a noun baste
is .As a verb conquer is
to defeat in combat; to subjugate.baste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bast)citation
Etymology 2
.Verb
(bast)citation
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)- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Anagrams
* ----conquer
English
Verb
(en verb)- We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms.
- By winning words to conquer hearts, / And make persuasion do the work of fear.