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BASKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

Synonyms:

basket; field goal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("basket" is a kind of...):

score (the act of scoring in a game or sport)

Derivation:

basketeer (an athlete who plays basketball)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A container that is usually woven and has handles

Synonyms:

basket; handbasket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("basket" is a kind of...):

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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basket"):

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 large round wicker basket (used on farms))

wicker basket (a basket made of wickerwork)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

Synonyms:

basket; basketball hoop; hoop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("basket" is a kind of...):

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)

Derivation:

basketeer (an athlete who plays basketball)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a basket

Synonyms:

basket; basketful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("basket" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb basket

Credits

 Context examples: 

We’ll leave that dinner-basket behind.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They calculated how the price of a calorie of a given food compares with that of a representative basket of starchy staple food in each country — a measure called relative caloric price.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

However, he kept fast hold, and led her in; and the cover of the basket came off, so that the meats in it fell about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now I can manage the other parcel and the basket very well.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"By Jove, she's forgotten her dinner!" cried the unconscious youth, poking the scarlet monster into its place with his cane, and preparing to hand out the basket after the old lady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He rang, and despatched an invitation to Mrs. Fairfax, who soon arrived, knitting-basket in hand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here,—probably this basket with pink ribbon.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I would not disappoint the little angel for all the world: and if you want me at the card-table now, I am resolved to finish the basket after supper.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A worked antimacassar lay upon her lap and a basket of coloured silks stood upon a stool beside her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above a hundred of the inhabitants mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king’s orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)