basket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.

2. 2
   noun

   A set or collection of intangible things.

   The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

   The last-second basket sealed the victory.

5. 5
   noun

   The game of basketball.

   Let's play some basket.

6. 6
   noun

   In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

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

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

   Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage

Etymology

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, of obscure origin. 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,…