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Definition of Basket
1. Noun. A container that is usually woven and has handles.
Specialized synonyms: Breadbasket, Bushel Basket, Creel, Frail, Hamper, Punnet, Shopping Basket, Skep, Wicker Basket
Generic synonyms: Container
2. Noun. The quantity contained in a basket.
3. Noun. Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball.
Generic synonyms: Basketball Equipment, Goal
Derivative terms: Basketeer
4. Noun. A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop.
Definition of Basket
1. n. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
2. v. t. To put into a basket.
Definition of Basket
1. Noun. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. ¹
2. Noun. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop. ¹
3. Noun. In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them. ¹
4. Noun. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball. ¹
5. Noun. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points. ¹
6. Noun. The game of basketball. ¹
7. Noun. 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 mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground. ¹
8. Noun. (slang) genitals (''UK'') ¹
9. Verb. To place in a basket or in baskets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Basket
1. a wooden container [n -S]
Medical Definition of Basket
1. 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . Woven of the flexile willow." 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. 3. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. Basket fish, a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, especially. T. Ephemeraeformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. Origin: Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basket
Literary usage of Basket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The new nation by John Morris (1880)
"Icelandic Meiss, a basket, a wooden box (in Norway any basket of wicker work).
... French Romn Meisse, a basket such as herrings are packed in. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"would go into the plains or mountains with a basket which she held under the weed
when the seeds were ripe. With another article made of basketry she picked ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The materials which are actually employed in the construction of basket-work are
numerous and varied, and to the principal of these allusion will be made ..."
4. Report by Indians Rights Association (1904)
"would go into the plains or mountains with a basket which she held under the weed
when the seeds were ripe. With another article made of basketry she picked ..."
5. Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (1879)
"Where is my little basket gone?" Said Charlie boy one day. " I guess some little
boy or girl ... My kitty's in the basket here, All cuddled down to sleep. ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1852)
"THE CULTIVATION OF basket WILLOW IN THE UNITED STATES. We cheerfully give place
to the subjoined letter of Mr. WATSON G. HAYNES, known throughout the ..."
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