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basket definition

bas·ket (bas′kit, bäs′-)

noun

  1. a container made of interwoven cane, rushes, strips of wood, etc. and often having a handle or handles
  2. the amount that a basket will hold
  3. anything like a basket in shape or use
  4. the structure hung from a balloon to carry personnel and equipment
  5. ☆ Basketball
    1. the goal, a round, open net hanging from a metal ring attached to a raised backboard
    2. field goal
  6. Finance
    1. a selected group of goods, currencies, etc. whose value is used as an index or standard
    2. a large group of stocks in the same proportions as those of a stock index: used in program trading

Etymology: ME < ?

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Alternate definitions:

business basket definition - business

idioms basket idiom

basket Synonyms

basket

n.

  1. A container

    bushel, crate, hamper, pannier, creel, bassinet, bin, box, cradle; see also case 7, container.

  2. The contents of a basket

    basketful, bushel, load; see load 1, measure 1.

  3. The goal in basketball

    net, hoop, bucket*, pot*, swisher*.


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basket Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • hang: Then why not plant up some hanging baskets or troughs.

Adjective modifier

  • wood-burner: At Cost Logs for wood-burner â first basket free thereafter purchase locally.

Modifies a noun

  • waterer: Items include slitters, aerators, dethatchers, rollers, brushes, trailers, etc. Additions include hanging basket waterers and people carriers.

Noun used with modifier

  • wicker: Nearly everyone I know has a pack scattered in a small wicker basket ready to be dipped into during times of need.

Preposition: of

  • log: In the center there was a high, square basket of burning logs.

Preposition: with

  • lining: A beautiful baby gift basket, stylishly presented in a high quality wicker basket with cream cloth lining.
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basket quotes

All the egg heads are in one basket.

-Anonymous

I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket.

-Durrell, Lawrence George

   Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until theysetthebasket umbilicus-high and returnthegiraffes to the zoo.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

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