basket
篮子,篓子,笼子,筐子
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Definitions
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- : a container made of twigs, rushes, thin strips of wood, or other flexible material woven together.
- : a container made of pieces of thin veneer, used for packing berries, vegetables, etc.
- : the amount contained in a basket; a basketful: to pick a basket of apples.
- : anything like a basket in shape or use: He never empties my wastepaper basket.
- : any group of things or different things grouped as a unit; a package; package deal: You can't buy the single stock; you have to take the basket—all companies, stocks and bonds.
- : the car or gondola suspended beneath a balloon, as for carrying passengers or scientific instruments into the atmosphere.
- : Basketball. an open net suspended from a metal rim attached to the backboard and through which the ball must pass in order for a player to score points.a score, counting two for a field goal and one for a free throw.
- : Also called snow ring. Skiing. a ring strapped to the base of a ski pole to limit penetration of the pole in the snow.
- : Slang: Vulgar. the male genitals, especially when outlined by a tight-fitting garment.
Phrases
- basket case
- put all one's eggs in one basket
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It comes with a capacity for a six-place setting plus a cutlery basket.
The 2013-14 Spurs beat LeBron’s Miami Heat via a kind of basketball hivemind, and the pre-Durant Warriors played similarly, just 10 extra feet from the basket.
Once they manage to push him farther away from the basket, the Celtics do absolutely everything they can to ignore the non-shooters.
In a supermarket, you could ogle the meat and produce yourself, even handle it, and then put it in your basket.
Remember, the researchers looked at a whole basket of social connections — all of which, by the way, can be measured more tangibly than loneliness.
Love means never having to say you're sorry... even if it leads to a gift basket.
He was this wonderful, elegant man who thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket.
He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.
But his greatest gifts remain in the classic pivot—close in with his back to the basket.
If not for the writing and singing of songs, she might very well be a basket case.
Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
Below the round thing hung a square basket, with many ropes, and other things, fast to it.