Definition of basket Basket
/bæˈskʌt/ - [batskut] - bas•ket
We found 17 definitions of basket from 9 different sources.
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What does basket mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: baskets |
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| basket - a container that is usually woven and has handles | ||
| handbasket | ||
| 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) | ||
| breadbasket a basket for serving bread | ||
| bushel basket a basket large enough to hold a bushel | ||
| 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 domed beehive made of twisted straw | ||
| basket - horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | ||
| basketball hoop, hoop | ||
| goal a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play" | ||
| basketball equipment sports equipment used in playing basketball | ||
| 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 - the quantity contained in a basket | ||
| basketful | ||
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Wiktionary 
- basket (Verb)
To place in a basket or in baskets.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- basket (n.)
A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. - basket (n.)
The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. - basket (n.)
The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. - basket (n.)
The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. - basket (v. t.)
To put into a basket.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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basket
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. -
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A preassembled group of securities. Baskets allow individual investors to acquire a group of securities with a single trade while paying one commission.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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basket
bas′ket, n. a vessel made of plaited twigs, rushes, or other flexible materials.—ns. Bas′ketful, as much as fills a basket; Bas′ket-hilt, the hilt of a sword with a covering wrought like basket-work to defend the hand from injury; Bas′ket-mak′er; Bas′ket-work, any structure of interlaced twigs or the like. [Prob. the L. bascauda; the W. basged is apparently borrowed from the English.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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basket
In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, to cover the men from the enemy's shot.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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basket
An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or unable to pay their losings, are adjudged by that respectable assembly to be put into a basket suspended over the pit, there to remain during that day's diversion: on the least demur to pay a bet, Basket is vociferated in terrorem. He grins like a basket of chips: a saying of one who is on the broad grin.
Wikipedia 
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A basket is a container. It is usually light.
People weave narrow pieces of material together to form baskets. Wood, grasses, or wicker are often used to make baskets. They are also made out of plastic today.
In basketball, the basket is an open net fixed to a metal ring in which players try to throw the ball.
Part of speech
🔤- basket, noun, singular of baskets.
