basket
Forms
- Plural
- baskets
- present (v1)
- basket
- past (v2)
- basketed
- past participle (v3)
- basketed
- present participle
- basketing
- 3rd person singular
- baskets
Definitions
1.A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
- The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.
2.In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
3.A set or collection of intangible things.
4.A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
1.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.
- Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.
2.To place in a basket or baskets.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3917
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
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.