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See also: básket

English

Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -æskɪt, -ɑːskɪt
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

Noun

A tray and three wicker baskets.

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

  1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
    A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
  2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
  3. In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
  4. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
    The point guard drove toward the basket.
  5. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
    The last-second basket sealed the victory.
  6. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
    Let's play some basket.
  7. 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 mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
  8. (UK, slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
  9. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
    • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
      In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.
  10. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
    1. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
  11. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  12. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
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  13. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

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Terms derived from basket

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Translations

wire or plastic container for carrying articles for purchase — see shopping basket
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See also

Verb

basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)

  1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
  2. (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.
    • 1974, Publishers Weekly (volume 206, issues 1-14, page 70)
      Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.
    • 1981, Thomas Whiteside, The Blockbuster Complex
      It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic, from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”).

Noun

basket

  1. a basket

Verb

basket

  1. to play basketball

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.

Danish

Etymology

Shortening of basketball, from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əb̥]

Noun

basket c (indeclinable)

  1. basketball (the sport)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑs.kət/, [ˈbɑ(ː)s.kət], /ˈbaːs.kət/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

Noun

basket m (plural baskets)

  1. (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (plural basket)

  1. basketball

Etymology 2

Noun

basket f (plural baskets)

  1. (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker, trainer (UK)
    On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.
    We'll go once everyone has put on their trainers.
Synonyms

Indonesian

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Etymology

From English basketball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas.ˈkɛt̚/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧kèt

Noun

baskèt (first-person possessive basketku, second-person possessive basketmu, third-person possessive basketnya)

  1. (sports) basketball.
    1. The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
    2. A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

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Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (uncountable)

  1. basketball

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaskɛt/, /ˈbaskət/

Noun

basket (plural baskettes)

  1. A basket (a woven container)
  2. (rare) The amount that fits in a basket.

Descendants

  • English: basket
  • Scots: basket

References

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (uncountable)

  1. Misspelling of básket.

Swedish

Etymology

Shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket c (uncountable)

  1. basketball

Declension

Declension of basket 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative basket basketen — —
Genitive baskets basketens — —

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Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket

  1. basket

Turkish

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
  2. basketball (the sport)

Derived terms

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