| 单词 | basket |
| 释义 | basket (once / 198 pages) 1n 2n A basket is a container made of woven straw or other material. You might keep your dirty clothes in a plastic laundry basket. There are many different types of baskets, from the shopping basket you carry in a grocery store to the basket you aim for when you throw a basketball. There are figurative baskets, too, like the basket you add items to when you're shopping online. What's known about the origin of basket is that it comes from the Anglo-French bascat — beyond that, it's a mystery. WORD FAMILYbasket: basketeer, basketful, baskets+/basketeer: basketeers/basketful: basketfuls USAGE EXAMPLES“Laundry baskets” of letters arrived for him daily, Leah said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The game featured 20 lead changes and eight ties, until Hayward tipped in a missed basket to put Utah ahead for good. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) But the Raiders clamped down on defense and allowed two baskets over the ensuing five minutes. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a container that is usually woven and has handles Syn|Hypo|Hyper handbasket breadbasket a basket for serving bread bushel basketa basket large enough to hold a bushel creela wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish fraila basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) hampera basket usually with a cover punneta small light basket used as a measure for fruits shopping basketa handbasket used to carry goods while shopping skepa large round wicker basket (used on farms) wicker basketa basket made of wickerwork clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket, voidera hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried food hampera hamper for packing and transporting food panniera large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person 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) 2n the quantity contained in a basket 2Syn|Hyper basketful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 1n horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball Syn|Hyper basketball hoop, hoop basketball equipment sports equipment used in playing basketball goalgame equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points 2n a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop Syn|Hyper field goal score the act of scoring in a game or sport |
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