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Meanings of tacking in English
Catalan
embasta 
Synonyms
Examples for "baste"
Examples for "baste"
1
When this is all used, baste with the fat in the pan.
2
Remember to baste your ribs with the leftover marinade every so often.
3
The servant took a long spoon and began to baste the fowl.
4
Turn the meat every fifteen minutes and baste with its own fat.
5
As for basting, the animal should adequately baste itself on the spit.
1
We conducted several tests to see if turning and basting were necessary.
2
Some of the older girls are doing well in cutting and basting.
3
When the basting is removed, the buttonhole will be symmetrical in appearance.
4
Maintain at a slow simmer, basting rapidly several times with pan liquids.
5
Bake in a buttered baking-pan, basting with butter melted in hot water.
1
The basting stitch is known as Queen Anne darned work.
2
What are the common basting stitches, and for what are they used?
3
Photograph: Emma McGowan 8) Don't forget to unpick your basting stitches using your stitch unpicker.
4
Using a contrasting thread allows you to clearly see where your basting stitches are and makes it easier to remove them later on.
5
The digifile slips into most of the tiny pockets on each jacket, but I have to rip the basting stitches out of some.
Usage of tacking in English
1
She'd been to dozens of bars in the area, tacking up posters.
2
But in tacking so frequently he was liable to make a mistake.
3
Yet these fools merely go tacking new additions on to the old.
4
Sailing ships travel faster when tacking than when sailing with the wind.
5
You look down an alley, and see ships tacking for the Baltic.
6
Sanitary Window Screen.-Trytacking cheese cloth on the pantry window screen frame.
7
It was a catboat, quite far off, tacking down from the Headland.
8
Kathleen, as she tucked in the blanket, heard his feet ticker-tacking away.
9
It is nothing but tacking, tacking, tacking- akindof stitching the stream.
10
Artemis hard-copied every page, tacking them to the walls of his study.
11
His hammer made a shallow tacking sound, driving the narrow nails through.
12
If, however, she were really tacking, our situation would indeed be critical.
13
There is no absurd conventionality, tacking a spinster to a married woman.'
14
Can't we have an agreeable person without tacking on a disagreeable one?
15
But the solution isn't as simple as tacking to the centre.
16
Hands up all those who know the difference between tacking and wearing ship.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Tacking through the time
Tacking across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common