“baskets” is a form of
basket
UK /ˈbɑːskɪt/ · US /ˈbæskɪt/ noun, verb
Forms baskets basketing basketed
- noun A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. “A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.”
- noun (by extension) A bed for a cat.
- noun A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- noun (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- noun (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- noun (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.”
- noun (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points. “The last-second basket sealed the victory.”
- noun (uncountable) The game of basketball. “Let's play some basket.”
- verb (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
- verb (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.
Synonyms
cart shopping basket shopping cart basketball hoops penile crotch bulge handbasket basketful basketball hoop hoop field goal
Etymology
From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, from latin
bascauda. 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”), 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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.
- noun The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
- verb To put into a basket. [R.]
Etymology [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “basket”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details