What's the difference between bask and busk?

Bask


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
  • (v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
  • (2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
  • (3) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
  • (4) On such occasions, one has the distinct sense of a festival simultaneously basking in the limelight while wearing a clothes peg on its nose.
  • (5) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (6) In the bask of the incandescent, you are prone to believe that human beings are essentially good, that tomorrow will be a better day, that love will triumph.
  • (7) Polysaccharide aminoaryl ethers capable of binding to proteins by azocoupling present special interest in view of their utilization as modifying baskings.
  • (8) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
  • (9) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
  • (10) When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.
  • (11) "Colleagues at the trust took the decision to conduct it last summer, when the corporation was basking in the Olympic afterglow – that was before the events of last autumn about which much has been written.
  • (12) Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
  • (13) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
  • (14) The size of the telencephalon, 34% of the total brain, equals that in some other sharks, whereas the cerebellum, 30% of the total brain in the basking shark, is significantly larger than in any other shark investigated.
  • (15) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
  • (16) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
  • (17) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
  • (18) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
  • (19) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only covers three shark species: whale shark, basking shark and great white shark.
  • (20) With incredible complacency, politicians from both sides of parliament basked in the glory and reacted smugly when the US and the eurozone hit a brick wall.

Busk


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
  • (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  • (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
  • (2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
  • (5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
  • (6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
  • (7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
  • (8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
  • (9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
  • (10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
  • (11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
  • (12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
  • (13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
  • (14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
  • (15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
  • (16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
  • (17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
  • (18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
  • (20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.

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