basket
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
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 Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bäsʹkĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbɑːskɪt/
- (US)
- (General American) enPR: băsʹkĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbæskɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈbæskət/
- (General Australian) enPR: bäsʹkət, IPA(key): /ˈbaːskət/
- Hyphenation: bas‧ket
- Rhymes: -æskɪt, -ɑːskɪt
Noun edit
basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
- 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.
- 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
- (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.
- (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- The last-second basket sealed the victory.
- (uncountable) The game of basketball.
- Let's play some basket.
- 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 men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- (LGBT, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.[1]
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- (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.
- (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- A singlestick with a basket hilt.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
- Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.
- A singlestick with a basket hilt.
- (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.
- (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- 1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture:
- Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage
- (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
- Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- Don't smoosh the basket.
Synonyms edit
- (container used in a shop): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
- (storage place for online items): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
- (basketball): basketball, hoops
- (genitals): Thesaurus:male crotch bulge
Derived terms edit
- all one's eggs in one basket
- alum-basket
- Balaam basket
- basketball
- basket case
- basket cell
- basket chair
- basket clam
- basket dance
- basket days
- basketeer
- basket fern
- basket forceps
- basketful
- basketgrass
- basket hilt
- basket house
- basket-house
- Basket Maker
- basketmaker
- basket of currencies
- basket-of-gold
- basket plant
- basket rush
- basketry
- basket star
- basket toss
- basket trade
- basket weave
- basket weaving
- basket willow
- basket-work
- basket work
- bawdy basket
- bread basket
- breadbasket
- bread-basket
- buck-basket
- burden basket
- bushel basket
- carrying basket
- chatter-basket
- chicken-in-a-basket circuit
- chip basket
- clothes basket
- currency basket
- dog basket
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- Easter basket
- e-basket
- eel basket
- egg in a basket
- fire basket
- fish-basket
- gift basket
- handbasket
- hand-basket
- hanging basket
- in-basket
- in-basket exercise
- in-basket situation
- ironing basket
- laundry basket
- linen basket
- man basket
- market basket
- Molotov bread basket
- Molotov's bread basket
- Moses basket
- out-basket
- Paschal basket
- personnel basket
- personnel transfer basket
- picnic basket
- pollen basket
- put all one's eggs in one basket
- safe as a kitten in a basket
- too-hard basket
- too hard basket
- underwater basket weaving
- Venus's flower basket
- wash basket
- wastebasket
- wastepaper basket
- winnowing basket
Translations edit
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See also edit
Verb edit
basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)
- (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
- (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, numbers 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 […]
References edit
- ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25
Anagrams edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed 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”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket
Verb edit
basket
- to play basketball
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket c (indeclinable)
- basketball (the sport)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket m (plural baskets)
- (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)
Derived terms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Noun edit
basket m (plural basket)
- (colloquial) basketball
- Synonyms: basket-ball, (Canada) ballon-panier
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
basket f (plural baskets)
- (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker (US), trainer (UK)
- Synonym: tennis
- 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 edit
- (Quebec): running shoe, running (criticized), espadrille
Derived terms edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baskèt (first-person possessive basketku, second-person possessive basketmu, third-person possessive basketnya)
- (sports) basketball.
- The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
- A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
Synonyms edit
- bola keranjang (Standard Malay)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “basket” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket m (invariable)
- basketball
- Synonym: pallacanestro
Derived terms edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman bascat, possibly from Late Latin bascauda.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket (plural baskettes)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “basket, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Noun edit
basket m (uncountable)
- Misspelling of básket.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket c (uncountable)
- basketball (the sport)
- Synonym: (less common) basketboll
Declension edit
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Nominative | basket | basketen | — | — |
Genitive | baskets | basketens | — | — |
Synonyms edit
- korgboll (dated outside Finland)
See also edit
- basketboll (the ball)
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)
- basket
- Synonym: sesta
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:basket
- shopping basket
- wastebasket
- (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
- (slang) rejection; disapproval; nonacceptance (in a submission, courtship, etc.)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Adjective edit
basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)
- (slang) disapproved; rejected (in a submission, courtship, etc.)
Further reading edit
- “basket”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Tok Pisin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
basket
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)
- basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
- basketball (the sport)
- Synonym: basketbol