1. basket(n = noun.artifact) handbasket - a container that is usually woven and has handles;
is a kind of container
has particulars: breadbasket, bushel basket, creel, frail, hamper, punnet, shopping basket, skep, wicker basket
2. basket(n = noun.quantity) basketful - the quantity contained in a basket;
is a kind of containerful
3. basket(n = noun.artifact) basketball hoop, hoop - horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball;
is a kind of basketball equipment, goal
Derived form noun basketeer1
4. basket(n = noun.act) field goal - a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop;
is a kind of score
Derived form noun basketeer1
1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Dyer. [1913 Webster]
2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. [1913 Webster]
3. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
5. A container shaped like a basket{1}, even if made of solid material rather than woven; -- the top is often, but not always, open and without a lid. [PJC]
6. a vessel suspended below a balloon, designed to carry people or measuring instruments for scientific research.
"The earliest balloons designed to carry people often had small vessels of woven flexible vegetable materials to hold the passengers, which resembled large baskets{1}, from which the name was derived." [PJC]
7. A goal{3} consisting of a short cylindrical net suspended from a circular rim, which itself is attached at about ten feet above floor level to a backboard, placed at the end of a basketball court. In professional basketball, two such baskets are used, one at each end of the court, and each team may score only by passing the ball though its own basket. In informal games, only one such basket is often used. [PJC]
8. An instance of scoring points by throwing the basketball through the basket; as, he threw four baskets in the first quarter; -- the ball must pass through the basket from above in order to score points. [PJC]
To put into a basket. [1913 Webster]
basket, n.
1 a container made of interwoven cane etc.
2 a container resembling this.
3 the amount held by a basket.
4 the goal in basketball, or a goal scored.
5 Econ. a group or range (of currencies).
6 euphem. colloq. bastard.
Idiom:
basket weave a weave resembling that of a basket.
Derivative:
basketful n. (pl. -fuls).
Etymology:
AF & OF basket, AL baskettum, of unkn. orig.
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