bas‧ket S3 /ˈbɑːskət, ˈbɑːskɪt $ ˈbæ-/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old North French baskot, from Latin bascauda 'bowl for washing dishes']

1. a container made of thin pieces of plastic, wire, or wood woven together, used to carry things or put things in:
a shopping basket
a basket full of vegetables
clothes/laundry basket (=for dirty clothes)

2. a net with a hole at the bottom, attached to a metal ring, through which the ball is thrown in basketball
make/shoot a basket (=to throw the ball through the basket)

3. technical the average or total value of a number of different goods or CURRENCIES
⇒ put all your eggs in one basket at egg¹(6), ⇒ wastepaper basket

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

basket
noun
I. container
ADJ. cane, straw, wicker/wickerwork, wire, woven | laundry, sewing | bread, food, fruit, shopping | waste/waste-paper | cat, dog | bicycle She was cycling along with her bicycle basket full of shopping.
picnic | flower, hanging hanging baskets full of summer flowers
VERB + BASKET make, weave | fill, load (sth into), pack (sth into), put sth in | take sth from/out of, unpack | carry, heave, pick up She heaved the huge basket onto the table.
swing | put down, set down
BASKET + VERB be filled with sth, be full of sth, contain sth a basket filled with delicious fruit
PHRASES in/into a/the ~ The cat lay curled in its basket.
~ of a basket of flowers/fruit

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

basket
II. in basketball
VERB + BASKET shoot | make, score, sink

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

basket

a wastepaper/waste basket (=for paper you throw away)
He threw her letter in the wastepaper basket.
a laundry/clothes basket (=for dirty clothes)
Will you please put your socks in the laundry basket?
a shopping basket
She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a picnic basket
We took a picnic basket and a rug.
a bread basket (=for serving bread)
There was a bread basket on the table.
a fruit basket (=containing fruits)
He had a fruit basket sent up to her hotel room.
a hanging basket (=for putting plants in and hanging outside)
All the shops had hanging baskets outside their doors.
a wicker basket (=made from the hard stems of a plant)
She stores her vegetables in pretty wicker baskets.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

basket
ˈbɑ:skɪt
See: put all one's eggs in one basket

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