# basket
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin.
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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bäsʹkĭt, IPA: /ˈbɑːskɪt/
* (Northern England, Scotland) IPA: /ˈbaskɪt/, /ˈbaskɛt/
* (US)
** (General American) enPR: băsʹkĭt, IPA: /ˈbæskɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
** (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈbæskət/
* (General Australian) enPR: bäsʹkət, IPA: /ˈbaːskət/
* Hyphenation: bas‧ket
* Rhymes: -æskɪt, -ɑːskɪt

### Noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)
* A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
    A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
** (by extension) A bed for a cat.
* A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
* (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
* (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
** 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
    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.
* (basketball) 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.
* (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
    The last-second basket sealed the victory.
* (uncountable) 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.
* (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
* (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
* (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
** 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: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.
* (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
** A singlestick with a basket hilt.
*** 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.
* (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
** 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36: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 from a basket or parachute down to earth.
* (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
** 1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture:Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage
* (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
* (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
    Don't smoosh the basket.
* (economics) Short for basket of goods.

#### Synonyms

* (container used in a shop): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
* (storage place for online items): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
* (basketball): basketball, hoops
* (genitals): Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

#### Derived terms

* all one's eggs in one basket
* alum-basket
* Balaam basket
* bascart
* basketane
* basketball
* basket case
* basket cell
* basket chair
* basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.)
* basket dance
* basket days
* basket dinner
* basketeer
* basket fern (Aglaomorpha spp.)
* basketflower (Plectocephalus spp.)
* basket forceps
* basketful
* basketgrass (Oplismenus spp.)
* basket hilt
* basket house, basket-house
* basketless
* basketlike
* basketmaker
* Basket Maker
* basketmaking
* basket of currencies
* basket-of-gold
* basket of goods
* basket plant (Callisia fragrans)
* basket rush (Juncus textilis etc.)
* basketry
* basket star
* basket toss
* basket trade
* basketware
* basketweave, basket weave
* basketweaver
* basket weaving, basketweaving
* basket willow (Salix spp.)
* basketwoman
* basketwood
* basket work, basket-work, basketwork
* basketworm (Psychidae spp.)
* bawdy basket
* breadbasket, bread basket, bread-basket
* buck-basket
* burden basket
* bushel basket
* carrying basket
* chatter-basket
* chicken-in-a-basket circuit
* chip basket
* clothes basket, clothesbasket
* currency basket
* dog basket
* don't put all your eggs in one basket
* Easter basket
* e-basket
* eel basket
* egg in a basket
* fire basket
* fish-basket
* flower basket
* gift basket
* handbasket, hand-basket
* hanging basket
* in-basket
* in-basket exercise
* in-basket situation
* ironing basket
* laundry basket
* linen basket
* litterbasket
* man basket
* market basket
* minibasket
* Molotov bread basket, Molotov's bread basket
* Moses basket
* out-basket
* Paschal basket
* personnel basket
* personnel transfer basket
* picnic basket
* pollen basket
* put all one's eggs in one basket
* safe as a kitten in a basket
* too hard basket, too-hard basket
* underwater basket weaving
* Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum)
* wash basket
* wastebasket
* wastepaper basket
* winnowing basket
* workbasket

#### Descendants

* → Irish: bascaed

#### Translations

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#### See also

* trug

### Verb

basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)
* (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
* (transitive, publishing) 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.
** 1974, Publishers Weekly, volume 206, numbers 1-14, page 70:Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.
** 1981, Thomas Whiteside, The Blockbuster Complex:It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhasko-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 111
* ↑ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

### Anagrams

* bakest

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic, from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bas‧ket
* IPA: /ˈbasket/ [ˈbas̪.ket̪]

### Noun

basket
* basket

### Verb

basket
* to play basketball

### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.

## Danish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥]

### Noun

basket c (indeclinable)
* basketball (the sport)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑs.kət/, [ˈbɑ(ː)s.kət], /ˈbaːs.kət/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bas‧ket

### Noun

basket m (plural baskets)
* (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)

#### Derived terms

* basketbal
* basketter

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bas.kɛt/

### Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

#### Noun

basket m (plural basket)
* (colloquial) basketball
    Synonyms: basket-ball, (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England) ballon-panier

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

basket f (plural baskets)
* (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker (US), trainer (UK)
    Synonym: tennis
    On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.We'll go once everyone has put on their trainers.

##### Synonyms

* (Quebec): running shoe, running (criticized), espadrille

##### Derived terms

* bien dans ses baskets
* lâcher les baskets

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bas.ˈkɛt̚/
* Hyphenation: bas‧kèt

### Noun

baskèt (plural basket-basket)
* (sports) basketball
** the particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball
** a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop

#### Synonyms

* bola keranjang (Standard Malay)

#### Derived terms

* pebasket

### Further reading

* “basket” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.sket/
* Rhymes: -asket
* Hyphenation: bà‧sket

### Noun

basket m (invariable)
* basketball
    Synonym: pallacanestro

#### Derived terms

* Legabasket

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* bascat, baskot

### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bascat, possibly from Late Latin bascauda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaskɛt/, /ˈbaskət/

### Noun

basket (plural baskettes)
* A basket (a woven container)
* (rare) The amount that fits in a basket.

#### Descendants

* English: basket
* Scots: basket
* Yola: baskaate, baskeat

#### References

* “basket, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

### Noun

basket m (uncountable)
* Misspelling of básket.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑːskɛt/

### Noun

basket c (uncountable)
* basketball (the sport)
    Synonym: (less common) basketboll

#### Synonyms

* korgboll (dated outside Finland)

#### See also

* basketboll (the ball)

### Anagrams

* bakets, tebaks

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbasket/ [ˈbas.kɛt̪̚]
* Rhymes: -asket
* Syllabification: bas‧ket

### Noun

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)
* basket
    Synonym: sesta
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:basket
** shopping basket
** wastebasket
** (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
* (slang) rejection; disapproval; nonacceptance (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

#### Derived terms

* basketin
* ibasket

#### Related terms

* basketbol

#### See also

* tubalan

### Adjective

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)
* (slang) disapproved; rejected (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

### Further reading

* “basket”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English basket.

### Noun

basket
* basket

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /basˈcet/
* Hyphenation: bas‧ket

### Noun

basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)
* basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
* basketball (the sport)
    Synonym: basketbol

#### Derived terms

* basket atmak
* basket yapmak
* basketçi