different between basing vs besing

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

Etymology

From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan (“to sing of, bewail, sing charms, enchant”), from Proto-Germanic *bisingwan? (“to sing about”), equivalent to be- (“of, about”) +? sing. Cognate with Dutch bezingen (“to sing of, chant”), German besingen (“to sing of, sing the praises of”), Swedish besjunga (“to sing of”).

Verb

besing (third-person singular simple present besings, present participle besinging, simple past besang, past participle besung)

1. (transitive) To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
   • 1728, William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), John Fletcher, Double falshood:

     I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them […]

   • 2001, Jørgen Bruhn, Jan Lundquist, The novelness of Bakhtin: perspectives and possibilities:

     […] Blanckenburg pointed out that one of the differences between the epic and the novel was that the classic epic was a "heroic poem" besinging the "public acts and events", the "actions of the citizen"; […]

2. (transitive) To sing to.

Derived terms

• besinging
• besung

Translations

Anagrams

• Gibens, begins, beings, binges, sigben