Definition of Basket

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Basket

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.

To put into a basket.

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Basket Quotations

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
Roy Lichtenstein

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
Julius Erving

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
Robert Downey, Jr.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
Donald Knuth

Basket Translations

basket in Afrikaans is mandjie
basket in Danish is kurv
basket in Dutch is ben, korf, slof, mand
basket in French is panier, corbeille
basket in German is Korb, Idiot, Korb
basket in Italian is canestro, cesto
basket in Latin is alveus
basket in Norwegian is kurv
basket in Portuguese is cesta, cesto
basket in Spanish is cesto
basket in Swedish is korg

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