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basket.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbɑːskɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈbaskɪt/Northern-England, Scotland/ˈbaskɛt/Northern-England, Scotland/ˈbæskɪt/General-American
  1. A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

    countable · uncountable
    A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
  2. A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. A bed for a cat.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  3. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

    countable · uncountable
  4. In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

    Internet · countable · uncountable
  5. A set or collection of intangible things.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
  6. A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

    countable · uncountable
    The point guard drove toward the basket.
  7. The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

    countable · uncountable
    The last-second basket sealed the victory.
  8. The game of basketball.

    uncountable
    Let's play some basket.
  9. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  10. The penis and region surrounding it.

    countable · slang · uncountable
  11. The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.

    countable · slang · uncountable
  12. In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  13. A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

    archaic · countable · uncountable
  14. A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon. A singlestick with a basket hilt.

    archaic · countable · uncountable
  15. A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.

    countable · uncountable
  16. The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

    countable · uncountable
  17. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

    countable · uncountable
  18. Bastard.

    countable · euphemistic · informal · uncountable
    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
  19. A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method

    countable · uncountable
    Don't smoosh the basket.
  20. Short for basket of goods

    abbreviation · alt-of · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, from latin bascauda. Displaced native Old English mand. One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).

verb/ˈbɑːskɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈbaskɪt/Northern-England, Scotland/ˈbaskɛt/Northern-England, Scotland/ˈbæskɪt/General-American
  1. To place in a basket or baskets.

    transitive
  2. 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.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, from latin bascauda. Displaced native Old English mand. One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).

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