basket
Syllables: bas·ketUK/ˈbɑːskɪt/
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Northern England/ˈbaskɪt/
basket noun: a lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. Also the abbreviation of basket of goods.
Noun
basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)
- A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
- The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.2026 May, Hannah Martin, “Fancy Baskets”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 97
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- Synonyms:
- cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- Synonyms:
- cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
- A set or collection of intangible things.
- The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The point guard drove toward the basket.
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- The last-second basket sealed the victory.
- The game of basketball.
- Let's play some basket.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The penis and region surrounding it.
- The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
- In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- A singlestick with a basket hilt.
- Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- A singlestick with a basket hilt.
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- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle...2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture
- Bastard.
- Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- Don't smoosh the basket.
Verb
basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)
- To place in a basket or baskets.
- To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
- Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.1974, Publishers Weekly, volume 206, numbers 1-14, page 70
- It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]1981, Thomas Whiteside, The Blockbuster Complex
Also used as
basket is also the abbreviation of basket of goods.
basket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
basket in Hindi
- container
- टोकरी ṭokrī
basket in Tamil
- container
- கூடை kūṭai
- basketball: hoop from which a net is suspended
- கூடை kūṭai
basket in Urdu
- container
- ٹوکْری ṭokrī, سَبُد sabud
basket in Bengali
- container
- টুকরি ṭukri
More languagesFewer languages
- basket in Telugu
- బుట్ట buṭṭa, తట్ట taṭṭa, వైరుబుట్ట vairubuṭṭa
- basket in Malayalam
- കുട്ട kuṭṭa
- basket in Kannada
- ಬುಟ್ಟಿ buṭṭi
- basket in Gujarati
- ટોપલી ṭoplī
- basket in Odia
- ଟୁକନା ṭukanā
- basket in Sanskrit
- पिटक piṭaka
- basket in Assamese
- পাচি pasi, টুকুৰী tukuri, খৰাহী khorahi, খাং khaṅ
- basket in Nepali
- टोकरी ṭokarī
- basket in Pashto
- څکی ckay, سوغځۍ suǧjə́y, شکرۍ škrǝy, ټوکرۍ ṭokrᶕy
- basket in Tagalog
- basket, buslo, takuyan, bakol
- basket in Arabic
- سَلَّة salla
- basket in Malay
- bakul
- basket in Indonesian
- bakul
- basket in Thai
- ตะกร้า dtà-grâa
- basket in Vietnamese
- giỏ, rổ
- basket in Myanmar
- တောင်း taung:, ခြင်း hkrang:
- Sindhi
- کارو khaaro
- Dhivehi
- ތުކުނި tukuni
- Kashmiri
- ٹوٗکٕر ṭūkụr
Examples of basket in a sentence
- Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.
- We went primrosing on Sunday and returned with a full basket.
- She was a complete basket case the morning of her wedding.
Synonyms of basket
- cart
- shopping basket
- shopping cart
- basketball
- hoops
- penile crotch bulge
Forms of basket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | baskets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | baskets |
| present participle | basketing |
| past participle | basketed |
| past | basketed |
Origin of basket
From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, from latin bascauda. Displaced native Old English mand. One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).
Words formed from basket
- all one's eggs in one basket
- alum-basket
- Balaam basket
- bascart
- basketane
- basketball
- basket bush
- basket case
- basket cell
- basket chair
- basket clam
- basket dance
- basket days
- basket dinner
- basketeer
- basket fern
- basketflower
- basket forceps
- basketful
- basketgrass
- basket hilt
- basket hold
- basket house
- basket-house
- basketless
- basketlike
- basketmaker
- Basket Maker
- basketmaking
- basket of currencies
- basket-of-gold
- basket of goods
- basket plant
- basket rush
- basketry
- basket star
- basket toss
- basket trade
- basketware
- basketweave
- basket weave
- basketweaver
- basket weaving
- basketweaving
- basket willow
- basketwoman
- basketwood
- basket work
- basket-work
- basketwork
- basketworm
- bawdy basket
- branchial basket
- breadbasket
- bread basket
- bread-basket
- buck-basket
- burden basket
- bushel basket
- carrying basket
Phrases with basket
- dog basket
- eel basket
- man basket
- chip basket
- fire basket
- gift basket
- gold basket
- wash basket
- basket cases
- basket cells
- basket clams
- basket ferns
51 more phrasesFewer phrases
- basket grass
- basket hilts
- basket stars
- basket works
- linen basket
- Moses basket
- water basket
- basket chairs
- basket houses
- basket rushes
- basket tosses
- basket trades
- basket weaves
- Easter basket
- market basket
- picnic basket
- pollen basket
- basket dinners
- basket of gold
- basket willows
- clothes basket
- hanging basket
- ironing basket
- laundry basket
- Paschal basket
- currency basket
- egg in a basket
- shopping basket
- too hard basket
- too-hard basket
- eggs in a basket
- fruit basket hat
- peach basket hat
- personnel basket
- winnowing basket
- egg in the basket
- fruit basket hats
- peach basket hats
- wastepaper basket
- eggs in the basket
- Molotov bread basket
- Venus' flower basket
- Venus's flower basket
- Molotov's bread basket
- personnel transfer basket
- underwater basket weaving
- safe as a kitten in a basket
- put all one's eggs in one basket
- puts all one's eggs in one basket
- putting all one's eggs in one basket
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
Words that rhyme with basket
Questions about basket
- What does basket mean?
- Basket means a lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- What is basket in Hindi?
- Basket in Hindi is टोकरी (ṭokrī). See Basket meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is basket?
- Basket can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce basket?
- Basket is pronounced /ˈbɑːskɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of basket?
- The plural of basket is baskets.
Words near basket in the dictionary
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