What is the difference between basket and hamper?
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A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
The game of basketball.
A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
(UK, slang) Genitals.
(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
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(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
# A singlestick with a basket hilt.
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(ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.
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, title= (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
* a hamper of wine
* a clothes hamper
* an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels
To put into a hamper.
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
* Blackmore:
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A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
As nouns the difference between basket and hamper
is that basket is a lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom while hamper is a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as.As verbs the difference between basket and hamper
is that basket is to place in a basket or in baskets while hamper is to put into a hamper.basket
English
Noun
(en noun)- In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket .
- Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets .
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Synonyms
* (container used in a shop) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart * (storage place for online items) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart * (basketball) basketball, hoopsDerived terms
* basketball * basket case * basket chair * basket forceps * basketful * basketgrass * basket hilt * basket house * Basket Maker * basket of currencies * basket-of-gold * basketry * basket star * basket trade * basket weave * breadbasket * basketeer * chip basket * handbasket * market basket * Moses basket * pollen basket * wastepaper basket * wastebasketSee also
* trughamper
English
(wikipedia hamper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts
Etymology 2
From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Hampered nerves.
- A lion hampered in a net.
- They hamper and entangle our souls.