BASKET

basket, field goal

(noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

basket, handbasket

(noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles

basket, basketball hoop, hoop

(noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

basket, basketful

(noun) the quantity contained in a basket

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

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 notional place to store items before ordering them.

(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

(uncountable) The game of basketball.

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.

(slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.

(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

A singlestick with a basket hilt.

(ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

(informal, euphemism) Bastard.

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): male crotch bulge

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.

Anagrams

• bakest

Source: Wiktionary

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Bas"ket, n. Etym: [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.]

1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

3. (Arch.)

Definition: The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] Gwilt.

4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton.

– Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a.

– Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.

– Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. 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.

Bas"ket, v. t.

Definition: To put into a basket. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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