baskets

Easter egg holders

Baskets is the plural of basket—containers typically woven from flexible materials like wicker, reed, or straw.

Beyond physical containers, baskets appears in sports (points scored in basketball), finance (a basket of currencies or stocks groups related items), and idioms: Don't put all your eggs in one basket warns against concentrating risk.

container

hamper

Obstruct or clothes basket

  • binStorage or disposal vessel
  • crateContainer for transport
  • wickerPliant twig for weaving

laundry · storage · liner · handle · lid · bushel · peck · pannier · creel · wastepaper

picnic

hamper

Obstruct or clothes basket

outdoors · alfresco · sandwiches · cheese · wine · baguette · fruit · gingham · sunshine · leisure

craft

weaving

Interlacing strands into fabric

plaiting · twining · reed · bamboo · cane · willow · fiber · handmade · artisan · interlace

basketball

hoop

Rigid circular frame

  • backboardBoard behind basket
  • dunkBriefly submerge in liquid
  • rimCircular outer boundary

net · swish · layup · three-pointer · rebound · alley-oop · jumpshot · slam-dunk · fastbreak · points

finance

securities

Tradeable financial assets

commodities · stocks · bonds · ETF · weighted · allocation · holdings · tracking · benchmark · rebalancing

Categories
Opposites
container construction

basketsairtight containers

Vessels permitting no gas exchange

boxes · crates · vaults · safes · sealed containers

basketball scoring

basketsmisses

Fails to connect

airballs · bricks · turnovers · blocked shots

Phrases
Family

basket, basketball, wastebasket, breadbasket, basketful, basketry, basketballs, basketlike, basketfuls

Familiarity
Top 10,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G