basket
IPA: bˈæskʌt
noun
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- (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.
- (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 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.
- (LGBT, 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.
- (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, euphemistic) Bastard.
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "basket" in Sentences
- They put fruits in the basket.
- He scooped sand from the basket.
- The bees use the baskets as hives.
- The basket is hauled out of the tank.
- It is the food basket of the community.
- The ball hit the rim of the basketball basket.
- Tree stump are turned into a basket of apples.
- The basket is a great place to put scraps and cut threads.
- The basket floor is opened to drop the stack into the case.
- ` ` Sometimes the basket is as big as the ocean, '' he said.
- This resulted in great innovation in the form of the baskets.
- A basket of the stud assembly attaches to the subpanel by rivets.
- It was June again, and a year since she began keeping what she called a basket boarding-house.
- When the garden basket is already full of produce to bring in those pockets would hole some of it too!
- Having made his heap of sand, inserted the mango-stone, and watered it, the juggler covered it with a large basket, and _put his hands under the basket_.
- The Texas A&M University finance professor combines dollars, euros, pounds and yen in optimal proportions to create what he calls a basket of "stable money."
- There will be some nights where the basket is a little bigger and you feel great about yourself, '' said Nowitzki, who was 12-of-18 from the floor and 13-of-15 from the line.
- The lettuce in the top of the basket is a big healthy thing that's already had trims, and the several and various flowers are doing extremely well, though not showing blooms yet.
- They have data on millions of people, billions of procedures and tests, exact costs on all of those, sequence data on what order the tests were performed in, what the eventual and final diagnosis was on the basis of those tests, and what the life expectancy was for each person given a certain basket of prior conditions and proactive treatments.