basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bäsʹkĭt
ipa: /ˈbɑːskɪt/
ipa: /ˈbaskɪt/
ipa: /ˈbaskɛt/
enpr: băsʹkĭt
ipa: /ˈbæskɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbæskət/
enpr: bäsʹkət
ipa: /ˈbaːskət/
rhymes: -æskɪt
rhymes: -ɑːskɪt
Forms: form: baskets
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”).
Senses: examples: text: A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
glosses: A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
glosses: A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A bed for a cat.
glosses: A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
glosses: In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
glosses: A set or collection of intangible things.
examples: text: The point guard drove toward the basket.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
examples: text: The last-second basket sealed the victory.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
examples: text: Let's play some basket.
glosses: The game of basketball.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The penis and region surrounding it.
glosses: The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
glosses: A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
examples: text: Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
A singlestick with a basket hilt.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
topics: ballooning
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
examples: text: Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage
ref: 1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture:
topics: architecture
glosses: The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
examples: text: Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
glosses: Bastard.
examples: text: Don't smoosh the basket.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Short for basket of goods
Synonyms: sense: container used in a shop
word: cart
sense: container used in a shop
word: shopping basket
sense: container used in a shop
word: shopping cart
sense: storage place for online items
word: cart
sense: storage place for online items
word: shopping basket
sense: storage place for online items
word: shopping cart
topics: basketball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: basketball
topics: basketball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hoops
sense: genitals
word: penile crotch bulge
Derived terms: word: all one's eggs in one basket
word: alum-basket
word: Balaam basket
word: bascart
word: basketane
word: basketball
word: basket bush
word: basket case
word: basket cell
word: basket chair
alt: Corbiculidae spp.
word: basket clam
word: basket dance
word: basket days
word: basket dinner
word: basketeer
taxonomic: Aglaomorpha spp.
word: basket fern
taxonomic: Plectocephalus spp.
word: basketflower
word: basket forceps
word: basketful
taxonomic: Oplismenus spp.
word: basketgrass
word: basket hilt
word: basket house
word: basket-house
word: basketless
word: basketlike
word: basketmaker
word: Basket Maker
word: basketmaking
word: basket of currencies
word: basket-of-gold
word: basket of goods
taxonomic: Callisia fragrans
word: basket plant
taxonomic: Juncus textilis etc.
word: basket rush
word: basketry
word: basket star
word: basket toss
word: basket trade
word: basketware
word: basketweave
word: basket weave
word: basketweaver
word: basket weaving
word: basketweaving
taxonomic: Salix spp.
word: basket willow
word: basketwoman
word: basketwood
word: basket work
word: basket-work
word: basketwork
taxonomic: Psychidae spp.
word: basketworm
word: bawdy basket
word: breadbasket
word: bread basket
word: bread-basket
word: buck-basket
word: burden basket
word: bushel basket
word: carrying basket
word: chatter-basket
word: chicken-in-a-basket circuit
word: chip basket
word: clothes basket
word: clothesbasket
word: currency basket
word: dog basket
word: don't put all your eggs in one basket
word: Easter basket
word: e-basket
word: eel basket
word: egg in a basket
word: fire basket
word: fish-basket
word: flower basket
word: gift basket
word: handbasket
word: hand-basket
word: hanging basket
word: in-basket
word: in-basket exercise
word: in-basket situation
word: ironing basket
word: laundry basket
word: linen basket
word: litterbasket
word: man basket
word: market basket
word: minibasket
word: Molotov bread basket
word: Molotov's bread basket
word: Moses basket
word: out-basket
word: Paschal basket
word: personnel basket
word: personnel transfer basket
word: picnic basket
word: pollen basket
word: put all one's eggs in one basket
word: safe as a kitten in a basket
word: too hard basket
word: too-hard basket
word: underwater basket weaving
word: Venus' flower basket
taxonomic: Euplectella aspergillum
word: Venus's flower basket
word: wash basket
word: wastebasket
word: wastepaper basket
word: winnowing basket
word: workbasket
Related terms: trug