BASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basket mean? 

• BASKET (noun)
  The noun BASKET has 4 senses:

1. a container that is usually woven and has handles

2. the quantity contained in a basket

3. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

4. a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

  Familiarity information: BASKET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A container that is usually woven and has handles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

basket; handbasket

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 2

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a basket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

basket; basketful

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

basket; basketball hoop; hoop

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:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

basket; field goal

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

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

Derivation:

basketeer (an athlete who plays basketball)

 Context examples 

At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy opened her basket and got out some bread.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

These he tore lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the waste basket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough for a company of soldiers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We all unpacked our baskets, and employed ourselves in getting dinner ready.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The iron fire-basket was carried bodily out by Mr. Trelawney, and the embers smothered among sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

First, the regolith is placed in a mesh-lined basket.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The fruit comes into contact with the vector during processing and storage: while kept in open baskets, the açaí fruit ferments and generates carbon dioxide, which attracts the triatomine insect.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

The basket part corresponds to the transmembrane domain—the part that goes through the cell membrane.

(Structure of receptor involved in brain disorders, NIH)

Hosen, shirts, cyclas, and under-jupons are in the brown basket on the left side of the mule.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)