basket
noun/ˈbæskɪt/
Слово англійською: basket
Переклад basket українською: корзи́на, ко́шик, корзи́на для поку́пок, ко́роб
Детальний опис
- a container for holding or carrying things. Baskets are made of long thin pieces of material that bends and twists easily, for example plastic, wire or wicker.
- 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)
- the amount contained in a basket
- a basket of fruit
- (also cart, shopping cart both especially North American English)a facility on a website that records the items that you select to buy
- Click to drop items into your shopping basket.
- 82 per cent of shoppers have abandoned an online shopping basket in the last year.
- 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
- (economics) a number of different goods or currencies
- the value of the rupee against a basket of currencies
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French basket, of unknown ultimate origin.
Idioms
put all your eggs in one basket
- to rely on one particular course of action for success rather than giving yourself several different possibilities
- I’ve applied for several jobs. I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket.