| 单词 | baste |
| 释义 | baste (once / 3000 pages) 1v 2vn 3v When cooks baste food, they brush or drizzle a savory liquid on it as it's cooking. If you baste your Thanksgiving turkey while it bakes, it will stay moist and tender. A chef might baste grilled vegetables with their marinade, or baste roasting meat with its own oily drippings. The technique keeps food from drying out as it cooks. Another meaning of baste is "to sew loosely." You might quickly baste the hem of a curtain before stitching it securely in place. The origin of the culinary baste is a bit of a mystery, but the sewing term comes from the Old French bastir, "construct" or "sew up." WORD FAMILYbaste: basted, bastes, basting+/basting: bastings USAGE EXAMPLES“If you’re slammed, you can just drop the scallops into a hot pan and not worry about flipping or basting,” he said. Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) Meanwhile, baste the bird all over with melted butter. Los Angeles Times(Nov 18, 2016) Bake, basting with juices every 20 minutes, until pumpkin is candied but not burned, about 75 minutes. Wall Street Journal(Nov 17, 2016) 1 v cover with liquid before cooking 2baste a roast Hyper dampen, moisten, wash make moist 1v sew together loosely, with large stitches baste a hem Syn|Hyper tack run up, sew, sew together, stitch fasten by sewing; do needlework 2n a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together 3Syn|Hyper basting, basting stitch, tacking embroidery stitch, sewing stitch a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather v strike violently and repeatedly Syn|Hyper batter, clobber beat, beat up, work over give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression |
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