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bas·ket

(băs′kĭt)

n. pl. baskets

a. A container made of interwoven material, such as rushes or twigs.

b. The amount that a basket can hold.

2. An item resembling such a container in shape or function.

3. A usually open gondola suspended from a hot-air balloon.

4. A group of related things, such as financial securities or products in a specific market.

5. Basketball

a. Either of the two goals normally elevated ten feet above the floor, consisting of a metal hoop from which an open-bottomed circular net is suspended.

b. A field goal.

6. Sports A usually circular or star-shaped structure at the base of a ski pole, used to prevent the pole from sinking too deeply into the snow.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, alteration (with substitution of the original ending by -et, noun suffix) of a word akin to French dialectal bâchot, pannier, and Old French baschoe, wooden or wicker container, both ultimately from Latin bascauda, a kind of basin, of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Irish basc, neckband of beadwork, and Welsh baich, burden, load; further akin to Latin fascis, bundle.]

bas′ket·ful′ n.

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basket

(ˈbɑːskɪt)

1. a container made of interwoven strips of pliable materials, such as cane, straw, thin wood, or plastic, and often carried by means of a handle or handles

2. Also called: basketful the amount a basket will hold

3. something resembling such a container in appearance or function, such as the structure suspended from a balloon

4. (Basketball) basketball

a. an open horizontal metal hoop fixed to the backboard, through which a player must throw the ball to score points

b. a point or points scored in this way

5. a group or collection of similar or related things: a basket of currencies.

6. informal a euphemism for bastard¹, bastard²

7. (Communications & Information) the list of items an internet shopper chooses to buy at one time from a website: add these items to your basket.

[C13: probably from Old Northern French baskot (unattested), from Latin bascauda basketwork holder, of Celtic origin]

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bas•ket

(ˈbæs kɪt, ˈbɑ skɪt)

n.

1. a container made of twigs, rushes, or other flexible material woven together.

2. a container made of pieces of thin veneer, used for packing berries, vegetables, etc.

3. the amount contained in a basket; a basketful.

4. anything like a basket in shape or use: a wastepaper basket.

5. a group of similar or related things; unit; package: a basket of industrial stocks.

6. the car or gondola suspended beneath a balloon.

a. the goal on a basketball court, consisting of an open net suspended from a metal hoop attached to a backboard.

b. field goal (def. 2).

[1250–1300; early Romance *baskauta < Latin bascauda basin]

bas′ket•like`, adj.

Basket

A collection of various representative types, as for deriving an average.

Example: The value of the pound sterling may be averaged against a basket of currencies—The Times, 1984.

basket

The target for shooting the ball, consisting of a metal hoop with a loose, open string net hanging down. The basket is fixed to a backboard.

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Noun	1.	basket - a container that is usually woven and has handles handbasket breadbasket - a basket for serving bread bushel basket - a basket large enough to hold a bushel container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) creel - a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish frail - a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) hamper - a basket usually with a cover punnet - a small light basket used as a measure for fruits shopping basket - a handbasket used to carry goods while shopping skep - a large round wicker basket (used on farms) wicker basket - a basket made of wickerwork
	2.	basket - the quantity contained in a basket basketful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
	3.	basket - horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball basketball hoop, hoop basketball equipment - sports equipment used in playing basketball goal - game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
	4.	basket - a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop field goal score - the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"

basket

noun wickerwork box, box, pannier, punnet, creel, trug a laundry basket

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Translations

سَلّةسَلَّـه

koškošík

kurvringscoring

KorbBeachbasketballKober

καλάθι

cesta cesto canasta canasto capazo

kori

panier corbeille

košarakorpakoš

kosár

karfa

cesto cestino canestro

かご

바구니

corbis

krepšinispintaspinti daiktaipintinė

grozs

корзина кошница сапетка

koškošara

korg

ตระกร้า

sepet

rổ

筐篮篮子

basket

[ˈbɑːskɪt]

A. N

1. (big) → cesto m; (two-handled) → canasta f; (two-handled, for earth etc) → espuerta f; (= hamper) → canasta f; (= pannier) → sera f, serón m; [of balloon] → barquilla f

2. (Basketball) → canasta f
to score a basket → encestar, meter una canasta

3. a basket of currencies (Econ) → una cesta de monedas (nacionales), una canasta de divisas (LAm)

B. CPD basket case N (= person) → chalado/a m/f, majareta mf (Sp) ; (= country, organization) → caso m perdido
basket chair N → silla f de mimbre

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basket

[ˈbɑːskɪt] n

(= container) → corbeille f; (with handle) → panier m laundry basket, shopping basket

(SPORT) → panier m

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basket

→ Korb m; (for rolls, fruit etc) → Körbchen nt; a basket of eggs → ein Korb/Körbchen (voll) Eier; a basket of currencies → ein Währungskorb m

(Basketball) → Korb m

(euph sl, = bastard) → Idiot m, → Blödmann m (inf)

basket

basketball

n → Basketball m

basket case

n (sl) → hoffnungsloser Fall

basket chair

n → Korbsessel m

basket clause

n (Jur) → Generalklausel f

basketful

adj a basket of food → ein Korb voll(er) Essen

basket-maker

n → Korbmacher(in) m(f), → Korbflechter(in) m(f)

basket

basket weave

n → Leinenbindung f

basketwork

n → Korbflechterei f; (= articles) → Korbarbeiten pl; a basket chair → ein Korbstuhl m

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basket

[ˈbɑːskɪt] n (gen, bread basket, wastepaper basket) → cestino; (large) → cesto, cesta; (shopping basket) → cestino della spesa; (at supermarket) → cestello; (wicker basket) → paniere m (Basketball) → canestro

basket

(ˈbaːskit) noun

a container made of strips of wood, rushes etc woven together. She carried a large basket.

ˈbasketball noun

a game in which goals are scored by throwing a ball into a net on a high post.

adjective

a basketball court.

ˈbasketry noun

basketwork.

ˈbasketwork noun

articles made of plaited rushes etc.

adjective

a basketwork chair.

basket

→ سَلّة koš kurv Korb καλάθι canasto, cesto kori panier košara cesto かご 바구니 mand kurv kosz cesto корзина korg ตระกร้า sepet rổ 篮子

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Little Benjamin took one look, and then, in half a minute less than no time, he hid himself and Peter and the onions underneath a large basket. .

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When he was gone Durbeyfield walked a few steps in a profound reverie, and then sat down upon the grassy bank by the roadside, depositing his basket before him.

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Suddenly, the stranger woman whom we have described, and who had, in the course of her work, come near enough to hear Tom's last words, raised her heavy black eyes, and fixed them, for a second, on him; then, taking a quantity of cotton from her basket, she placed it in his.

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Also, by an afterthought, I stuffed Foulata's basket, which, except for one water-gourd and a little biltong, was empty now, with great quantities of the stones.

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"Lower away the basket with the shekels of silver!" here shouted a Roman soldier in a hoarse, rough voice, which appeared to issue from the regions of Pluto "lower away the basket with the accursed coin which it has broken the jaw of a noble Roman to pronounce!

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Could she be the same Hetty that used to make up the butter in the dairy with the Guelder roses peeping in at the window--she, a runaway whom her friends would not open their doors to again, lying in this strange bed, with the knowledge that she had no money to pay for what she received, and must offer those strangers some of the clothes in her basket? It was then she thought of her locket and ear-rings, and seeing her pocket lie near, she reached it and spread the contents on the bed before her.

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Athos called Grimaud, pointed to a large basket which lay in a corner, and made a sign to him to wrap the viands up in the napkins.

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Not for Dan the bother of filling his basket with the loose sprays, mingled with feathery elephant's-ears and trails of creeping spruce, as the rest of us, following the Story Girl's example, did.

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She leaked fully, generously, overflowingly, all over - like a basket. I took an enthusiastic part in the excitement caused by that last infirmity of noble ships, without concerning myself much with the why or the wherefore.

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One morning he was sitting in his usual place with his basket before him, waiting to be hired, when a tall young lady, covered with a long muslin veil, came up to him and said, "Pick up your basket and follow me." The porter, who was greatly pleased by her appearance and voice, jumped up at once, poised his basket on his head, and accompanied the lady, saying to himself as he went, "Oh, happy day!

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At a distance they could see the curious procession moving toward the wharf--the lovers, shoulder to shoulder, creeping; the lady in black, gaining steadily upon them; old Monsieur Farival, losing ground inch by inch, and a young barefooted Spanish girl, with a red kerchief on her head and a basket on her arm, bringing up the rear.

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"I am glad," said Lady Middleton to Lucy, "you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight.