basket

US: /ˈbæskət/
UK: /bˈɑːskɪt/


English Vietnamese dictionary


basket /'bɑ:skit/
  • danh từ
    • cái rổ, cái giỏ, cái thúng
      • fish basket: giỏ đựng cá
      • a basket of eggs: một rổ trứng
    • tay cầm của roi song; roi song; roi mây
    • (định ngữ) hình rổ, hình giỏ
    • (định ngữ) bằng song, bằng mây
    • like a basket of chips
      • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (đùa cợt) rất có duyên, rất dễ thương
    • the pick of the basket
      • những phần tử ưu tú; cái chọn lọc nhất, cái ngon nhất, cái ngon lành nhất
  • ngoại động từ
    • bỏ vào rổ, bỏ vào giỏ, bỏ vào thùng

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun
1 a container for holding or carrying things. Baskets are made of thin strips of material that bends and twists easily, for example plastic, wood, or wire: a shopping basket + a picnic basket + a clothes / laundry basket (= in which dirty clothes are put before being washed) + a wicker / wire basket + a cat / dog basket (= in which a cat or dog sleeps or is carried around)
see also WASTE-PAPER BASKET
2 the amount contained in a basket: a basket of fruit
3 the net and the metal ring it hangs from, high up at each end of a basketball court; a point that is scored by throwing the ball through this net: to make / shoot a basket
4 (economics) a number of different goods or CURRENCIES: the value of the rupee against a basket of currencies
Idioms see EGG n.

Collocation dictionary


1 container

ADJ.

cane, straw, wicker/wickerwork, wire, woven | laundry, sewing | bread, food, fruit, shopping | waste/waste-paper | cat, dog | bicycle
She was cycling along with her bicycle basket full of shopping.
| picnic | flower, hanging
hanging baskets full of summer flowers

VERB + BASKET

make, weave | fill, load (sth into), pack (sth into), put sth in | take sth from/out of, unpack | carry, heave, pick up
She heaved the huge basket onto the table.
| swing | put down, set down

BASKET + VERB

be filled with sth, be full of sth, contain sth
a basket filled with delicious fruit

PHRASES

in/into a/the ~
The cat lay curled in its basket.
| ~ of
a basket of flowers/fruit

2 in basketball

VERB + BASKET

shoot | make, score, sink


Concise English dictionary


baskets'bɑːskɪt
noun
+a container that is usually woven and has handles
+the quantity contained in a basket
+horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
+a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop