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basket
types of basket
a wastepaper/waste basket
(= for paper you throw away )
• He threw her letter in the wastepaper basket.
a laundry/clothes basket
(= for dirty clothes )
• Will you please put your socks in the laundry basket?
a shopping basket
• She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a picnic basket
• We took a picnic basket and a rug.
a bread basket
(= for serving bread )
• There was a bread basket on the table.
a fruit basket
(= containing fruits )
• He had a fruit basket sent up to her hotel room.
a hanging basket
(= for putting plants in and hanging outside )
• All the shops had hanging baskets outside their doors.
a wicker basket
(= made from the hard stems of a plant )
• She stores her vegetables in pretty wicker baskets.
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noun 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 in basketball VERB + BASKET shoot | make, score, sink
Oxford Collocations Dictionary