different between basing vs basting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?s??/

Verb

basing

1. present participle of base

Noun

basing (countable and uncountable, plural basings)

1. The storage or housing of something within a base.
   • 1937, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Reports (page 20)

     Incidental revenues from sales and repairs and practically all ground expense were recorded as applicable to a particular station and then prorated to individual routes on the basis of arrivals, departures, and basings of equipment.

   • 1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles (page 174)

     In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Compare West Coast Bajau basing. Compare Malay bajing, Javanese ???? (bajing) and Sundanese ???? (bajing).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /basi?/
• Hyphenation: ba?sing

Noun

basing

1. squirrel

Synonyms

• tupai

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

Compare Brunei Malay basing. Compare Malay bajing, Javanese ???? (bajing) and Sundanese ???? (bajing).

Noun

basing

1. squirrel (rodent)

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?st??/
• Rhymes: -e?st??

Noun

basting (plural bastings)

1. The act by which a food item is basted.

   Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out.

2. (archaic) A (physical) beating.

Verb

basting

1. present participle of baste

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Basting”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.

Anagrams

• tangibs

French

Alternative forms

• bastaing

Etymology

From Old French bastir (“to construct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.t???/, /bas.t??/

Noun

basting m (plural bastings)

1. A joist used to carry other planks of wood.

Further reading

• “basting” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).