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bas⋅ket

[bas-kit, bah-skit]

–noun

1.	a container made of twigs, rushes, thin strips of wood, or other flexible material woven together.

2.	a container made of pieces of thin veneer, used for packing berries, vegetables, etc.

3.	the amount contained in a basket; a basketful: to pick a basket of apples.

4.	anything like a basket in shape or use: He never empties my wastepaper basket.

5.	any group of things or different things grouped as a unit; a package; package deal: You can't buy the single stock; you have to take the basket—all companies, stocks and bonds.

6.	the car or gondola suspended beneath a balloon, as for carrying passengers or scientific instruments into the atmosphere.

Basketball.

a.	an open net suspended from a metal rim attached to the backboard and through which the ball must pass in order for a player to score points.

b.	a score, counting two for a field goal and one for a free throw.

8.	Also called snow ring. Skiing. a ring strapped to the base of a ski pole to limit penetration of the pole in the snow.

9.	Slang: Vulgar. the male genitals, esp. when outlined by a tight-fitting garment.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME basket(te) < early Romance *baskauta (> F dial. bâchot, bachou wooden or interwoven vessel, OHG baskiza box) < L bascauda basin, perh. < British Celtic

Related forms:

bas⋅ket⋅like, adjective

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bas·ket (bās'kĭt)

1. A container made of interwoven material, such as rushes or twigs.
2. The amount that a basket can hold.
3. Either of the two goals normally elevated ten feet above the floor, consisting of a metal hoop from which an open-bottomed circular net is suspended.
4. A field goal.
An item resembling such a container in shape or function.
A usually open gondola suspended from a hot-air balloon.
A group of related things, such as financial securities or products in a specific market.
Basketball
1. Either of the two goals normally elevated ten feet above the floor, consisting of a metal hoop from which an open-bottomed circular net is suspended.
2. A field goal.
Sports A circular structure at the base of a ski pole, used to prevent the pole from sinking too deeply into the snow.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Vulgar Latin *baskauta, of Celtic origin.]
bas'ket·ful' n.

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Basket

Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.]

1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." --Dyer.

2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt.

4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith.

Basket fish (Zo["o]l.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton.

Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence,

Baskethilted, a.

Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.

Basket worm (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemer[ae]formis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Basket

Bas"ket\, v. t. To put into a basket. [R.]

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Language Translation for : basket

Spanish: cesta, capazo,

German: der Korb,

Japanese: かご

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basket

1229, from Anglo-Fr. bascat, origin obscure despite much speculation. Said by the Roman poet Martial to be from Celtic British and perhaps cognate with L. fascis "bundle, faggot," in which case it probably originally meant "wicker basket." But there is no evidence of such a word in Celtic. Basket case is 1919, Amer.Eng., originally a literal reference to quadriplegic veterans of World War I. Fig. sense of "person emotionally unable to cope" is from 1967.

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A preassembled group of securities. Baskets allow individual investors to acquire a group of securities with a single trade while paying one commission.

Basket

There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17, 19). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs peeled; their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews. (2.) That used (Heb. salsilloth') in gathering grapes (Jer. 6:9). (3.) That in which the first fruits of the harvest were presented, Heb. tene, (Deut. 26:2, 4). It was also used for household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that called _corbis_ by the Romans. (4.) A basket (Heb. kelub) having a lid, resembling a bird-cage. It was made of leaves or rushes. The name is also applied to fruit-baskets (Amos 8:1, 2). (5.) A basket (Heb. dud) for carrying figs (Jer. 24:2), also clay to the brick-yard (R.V., Ps. 81:6), and bulky articles (2 Kings 10:7). This word is also rendered in the Authorized Version "kettle" (1 Sam. 2:14), "caldron" (2 Chr. 35:13), "seething-pot" (Job 41:20). In the New Testament mention is made of the basket (Gr. kophinos, small "wicker-basket") for the "fragments" in the miracle recorded Mark 6:43, and in that recorded Matt. 15:37 (Gr. spuris, large "rope-basket"); also of the basket in which Paul escaped (Acts 9:25, Gr. spuris; 2 Cor. 11: 33, Gr. sargane, "basket of plaited cords").

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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basket

In addition to the idiom beginning with basket, also see put all one's eggs in one basket.

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