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basket

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See also: básket

English

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A tray and three wicker baskets.

Etymology

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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”),[1] but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).

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    Noun

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    basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

    1. A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
      A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
      • 2026 May, Hannah Martin, “Fancy Baskets”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 97:
        The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.
      1. (by extension) A bed for a cat.
    2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
    3. (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
    4. (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.
    5. (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.
    6. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
      The last-second basket sealed the victory.
    7. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
      Let's play some basket.
    8. 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.
    9. (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.[2]
    10. (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
    11. (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.
    12. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
      1. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
    13. A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
    14. (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.
    15. (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
    16. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
      Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
    17. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
      Don't smoosh the basket.
    18. (economics) Short for basket of goods

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    • Tok Pisin: basket
    • → Cornish: basket
    • → Irish: bascaed
    • → Welsh: basged

    Translations

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    Verb

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    basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)

    1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
    2. (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

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    1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “bhasko-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 111
    2. ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

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    Etymology

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    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

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    • Hyphenation: bas‧ket
    • IPA(key): /ˈbasket/ [ˈbas̪.ket̪]

    Noun

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    basket

    1. basket
      • 2018 — Pescante, Rudy L., Ang Gidangatan sa Guwapo Anib 3 (24 January), Bisaya, Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation
        Siyay gipalukdo sa basket nga sinudlan og puso, ug si Mama niya maoy nagdala sa usa ka basket nga igo rang natunga sa budbod.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Verb

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    basket

    1. to play basketball

    Cornish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English basket, from Latin bascauda, from Proto-Celtic *baskis. Doublet of begh.

    Noun

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    basket m (plural baskettys)

    1. basket
      Synonyms: kanstel, kowel

    Mutation

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    Mutation of basket
    radical soft aspirate hard mixed
    basket vasket unchanged pasket fasket,
    vasket*

    * after 'th
    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Danish

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    Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

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    • IPA(key): /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥]

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    basket c (indeclinable)

    1. basketball (the sport)

    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English basket.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbɑs.kət/, [ˈbɑ(ː)s.kət], /ˈbaːs.kət/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

    Noun

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    basket m (plural baskets, no diminutive)

    1. (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)

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    French

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    Etymology 1

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    Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

    Noun

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    basket m (invariable)

    1. (colloquial) basketball
      Synonyms: basket-ball, (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England) ballon-panier

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    Noun

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    basket f (plural baskets)

    1. (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker (US), trainer (UK)
      Synonyms: tennis, (Quebec) running, espadrille
      On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.
      We'll go once everyone has put on their trainers.
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    Indonesian

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    Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia id

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    Etymology 1

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    Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

    Noun

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    baskèt (plural basket-basket)

    1. (sports) basketball
      1. the particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball
      2. a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop
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    Etymology 2

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    Blend of basah (“wet”) +‎ ketiak (“armpit; underarm”).

    Adjective

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    basket (plural basket-basket)

    1. (slang) having wet underms
      Synonym: ketibas (Malaysia)

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

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    basket m (invariable)

    1. basketball
      Synonyms: pallacanestro, (rare) pallacesto, (dated) palla al cerchio, (informal) palla a spicchi

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    Middle English

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    Etymology

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      From Anglo-Norman bascat, possibly from Late Latin bascauda.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈbaskɛt/, /ˈbaskət/

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      basket (plural baskettes)

      1. A basket (a woven container)
      2. (rare) The amount that fits in a basket.

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

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      basket m (uncountable)

      1. misspelling of básket

      Swedish

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      Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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      Pseudo-anglicism; from English basketball.

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      basket c (uncountable)

      1. basketball (the sport)

      Declension

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      Declension of basket
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite basket baskets
      definite basketen basketens
      plural indefinite — —
      definite — —

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      Tagalog

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from English basket.

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      basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

      1. basket
        Synonym: sesta
        Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:basket
        1. shopping basket
        2. wastebasket
        3. (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
      2. (slang) rejection; disapproval; nonacceptance (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

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      Adjective

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      basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

      1. (slang) disapproved; rejected (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

      Further reading

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      • “basket”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

      Tok Pisin

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      Etymology

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      From English basket.

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      basket

      1. basket

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      Turkish

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from English basket.

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      • IPA(key): /basˈcet/
      • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

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      basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)

      1. basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
      2. basketball (the sport)
        Synonym: basketbol

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