Synonyms for basket
ˈbæs kɪt, ˈbɑ skɪtbas·ket

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1. basketnoun

   Synonyms:
   cart, shopping cart, shopping basket

2. basketnoun

   The game of basketball.

   Let's play some basket.

   Synonyms:
   hoop, basketball

3. basketnoun

   Synonyms:
   shopping basket, cart, shopping cart

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1. basket, handbasketnoun

   a container that is usually woven and has handles

   Synonyms:
   handbasket, hoop, basketful, basketball hoop, field goal

2. basket, basketfulnoun

   the quantity contained in a basket

   Synonyms:
   handbasket, hoop, basketful, basketball hoop, field goal

3. basket, basketball hoop, hoopnoun

   horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

   Synonyms:
   handbasket, hoop, wicket, field goal, basketball hoop, basketful, ring

4. basket, field goalnoun

   a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

   Synonyms:
   handbasket, hoop, basketful, basketball hoop, field goal

Matched Categories

1. • Container
   • Containerful

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1. basketnoun

   Synonyms:
   hamper, creel, hanaper, pannier, corb, tumbril, dosser, canister, prickle, corf, bassinet, voider, flasket, punnet, wicker, wicker-work, scuttle

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1. List of paraphrases for "basket":

   basketball, bucket, lay-up, gondola, pod, cage, cart, sneaker, hamper, hoop, mix, dustbin, collective, nacelle, pail

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1. Former Vice President Dick Cheney:

   We used to have, when we were there -- it wasn't quite as up-to-date as it is today in terms of technology, but we had a basket outside the door to the Situation Room where any electronic gear had to go in that basket: a cell phone, a pager or whatever it might be, you didn't take it into the room, because it could conceivably be reversed engineered, or in some fashion, threaten security.

2. Tapas Strickland:

   The U.S. economy remains the least dirty t-shirt in the global laundry basket. The dollar was stronger across the board in response.

3. Mark Wunderlich:

   On the dribble, we always talk about dribbling you can take two legal steps to the basket, right? No one ever thought about on the gather after you dribble you can take two legal steps backwards.

4. Leon Botstein:

   Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

5. Ueli Maurer:

   I don't think (Libra has a chance in its current form), because central banks will not accept the basket of currencies underpinning it, the project, in this form, has thus failed.