Hasted vs Basted - What's the difference?
hasted | basted |
(haste)
Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
(obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
* Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
To urge onward; to hasten
To move with haste.
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition=
, passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}
(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
As verbs the difference between hasted and basted
is that hasted is past tense of haste while basted is past tense of baste.hasted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*haste
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Noun
(-)- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
- The king's business required haste .
- I said in my haste , All men are liars.
Derived terms
* hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverbVerb
(hast)citation
citation
citation
References
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----basted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*baste
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
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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.