Usually means: Container for carrying or storing items.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. basket: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. basket, basket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. basket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. basket: Vocabulary.com
  6. Basket, basket: Wordnik
  7. basket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Basket: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. basket: Wiktionary
  10. basket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. basket: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. basket: Dictionary.com
  13. basket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. basket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Basket (basketball), Basket (disambiguation), Basket (finance), Basket (hieroglyph), Basket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Basket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. basket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. basket: Rhymezone
  19. basket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. basket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Basket: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. basket: Free Dictionary
  23. basket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. basket: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. basket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. basket: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Basket: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. basket: Glossary of research economics
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Basket: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  7. Basket: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. basket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. basket: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. basket: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basket: Easton Bible
  2. Basket: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. basket, basket, basket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. basket: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. basket, the basket: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Basket: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basket: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
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.
noun:  (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
noun:  (uncountable) The game of basketball.
noun:  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.
noun:  (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
noun:  (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
noun:  (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
noun:  (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
noun:  A singlestick with a basket hilt.
noun:  (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
noun:  (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
noun:  (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
noun:  (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
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.

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