What's the difference between baste and stitch?

Baste


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
  • (v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.
  • (v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The World Bank seems to want to solve the problem by changing its label on business as usual to sound climate-friendly Elizabeth Bast, OCI OCI considers “fossil fuel” lending to include oil, gas, and coal projects, as well as policy loans, transmission and distribution, and financial intermediaries that have been found to be directly linked to or to support oil, gas or coal development.
  • (2) They said that, at the network’s most recent meeting in Dallas, the president of the rightwing Heartland Institute Joseph Bast led a workshop in which a presentation was made that denounced the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced some of the most authoritative accounts of global warming, as “not a credible source of science and economics”.
  • (3) Cover with a lid and return to the oven for 2½–3 hours, basting the pork regularly with the liquid in the pot.
  • (4) The bioactivation of HMBA by pure BAST I was dependent on the presence of 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) in the reaction and was inhibited by dehydroepiandrosterone, a physiological substrate for BAST I. Glutathione, a cellular nucleophile with important protective properties, decreased DNA adduct formation in the HMBA sulfation reaction in the absence of glutathione S-transferase activity.
  • (5) Higher levels of BAST I activity and immunoreactivity as well as HMBA-DNA adduct formation were detected in female rat liver cytosol than in male rat liver cytosol.
  • (6) As shown by immunoblotting analysis, the main reactive antigen recognized by anti-BAST was a non-glycosylated 32-kDa placental protein which was antigenically related to SSAV p30.
  • (7) There was no one around, it was a weekday, and the locals were at work and the tourists were in Copacabana, basting on the beach.
  • (8) Though Pope Francis’s heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate,” Joseph Bast, Heartland’s president, said in a statement.
  • (9) These results indicate the usefulness of BAST I to investigate the sulfation and activation of HMBA and probably other hydroxymethylated polyaromatic hydrocarbons to electrophilic and mutagenic metabolites under defined reaction conditions.
  • (10) The data suggest that BAST I is the same protein as hydrosteroid sulfotransferase 2 (Marcus, C. J., et al.
  • (11) The mouse liver showed BAST activity for lithocholic acid, taurolithocholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic acid, whereas the rat liver and kidney had the activity for taurodeoxycholic acid in addition to these compounds.
  • (12) The dental health care system and dental education as presently structured do not appear to be serving the bast interest of the public.
  • (13) A non-glycosylated 19-kDa protein was also considered to be one of the anti-BAST-corresponding antigens.
  • (14) Optimal pH of liver BAST in the two species was different from that of the rat kidney.
  • (15) Although maximum activity occurs with 5 mM MgCl2, Mg2+ is not essential for BAST I activity.
  • (16) The roast prime rib – up to an 18oz cattle baron’s cut (a whopping $50, if you will) – is a hunka rosy, fat-basted prime beef.
  • (17) BAST was inactive towards taurocholic acid, 7 alpha- or 12-monohydroxy-5 beta-cholanoic acid.
  • (18) com Fennel basted pork chops with rhubarb British pork chops and pink rhubarb make a glorious and surprisingly quick spring supper.
  • (19) This paper describes a simple technique for inserting basting sutures to secure full-thickness skin grafts.
  • (20) Its most popular item ordered online so far is a basted turkey breast with a smoked bacon lattice.

Stitch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
  • (v. i.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
  • (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
  • (v. i.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
  • (v. i.) A contortion, or twist.
  • (v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
  • (v. i.) A furrow.
  • (v. t.) To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
  • (v. t.) To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
  • (v. t.) To form land into ridges.
  • (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An advantage of this procedure was a reduction in the number of stitches, which reduced operative time and obtained good vascular healing.
  • (2) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
  • (3) In all cases the left superior and inferior valve leaves were approximated with 2 or 3 stitches.
  • (4) The graft was sutured by means of 20 single stitches (10.0 nylon) or applying a continuous suture (11.0 nylon).
  • (5) They ask me to stitch them up and then they instantly return.
  • (6) In some cases, one or more microsurgical epiperineurium-fascial stitches (EPFS) along the proximal and distal stumps of a transected nerve permit their firm approximation, shifting tensile forces from the suture line over longer segments of the nerve stumps.
  • (7) In deficient length of the cut arch of the aorta the left subclavian artery was divided; in equal diameter of both arches the lumen of the arch was reduced to 0.5 cm with stitches before formation of the anastomosis so as to prevent hyperfunction of the shunt.
  • (8) The second is a case of superficial invasion of Candida in a stitch ulcer.
  • (9) Chitin derivatives are also used in things like contact lens, surgical stitches and artificial skin.
  • (10) The new method includes the use of small Teflon pledgets to cover the conduction system at the crossing sites of suture line, and so that stitches can be placed on the pledgets to skip the conduction system.
  • (11) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
  • (12) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
  • (13) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
  • (14) Clinical observations, macroscopic evaluation of the enucleated eyes and results of the histopathological examination showed good tolerance of the retinal stitches through the tissue of the rabbits eye and indicate the possibility of a clinical utilization of this method.
  • (15) It was necessary to reoperate in 2 patients, in 1 because of a stitched-up drain and in 1 because of postoperative haematoma.
  • (16) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
  • (17) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.
  • (18) To avoid injury conduction system stitches were placed from upper margin of the VSD, and to keep away tricuspid regurgitation we plicated a depression of septal leaflet which caused by anomalous chordae in VSD patch closure.
  • (19) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
  • (20) Because of the various complications associated with blind-stitch percutaneous abomasopexy, we concluded that it is not an appropriate procedure for correction of left displaced abomasum in valuable cattle, but may be used as an alternative for salvage in less valuable cows.