Basted vs Bassed - What's the difference?
basted | bassed |
(baste)
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
(bass)
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
A low spectrum of sound tones.
A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than tenor.
A male singer who sings in the bass range.
An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
To sound in a deep tone.
* 1623 [1610], (William Shakespeare), The Tempest (First Folio ed.), act III, scene iii, lines 99-99
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
The linden or lime tree.
Its bark, used for making mats.
A hassock or thick mat.
As verbs the difference between basted and bassed
is that basted is past tense of baste while bassed is past tense of bass.basted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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
* ----bassed
English
Verb
(head)bass
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The giant spoke in a deep, bass , rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.
Noun
(es)- Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass .
- The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
- Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass , much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
- The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
- The score had been written without the treble and bass , but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
Synonyms
* (singer) basso * (clef) F clefCoordinate terms
* (voice types) soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)Derived terms
* bass clef * bass drum * bass guitar * bassline * bass music * bass note * booty bass * double bass * electric bass * figured bass * Miami bassVerb
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(That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd
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