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What is the difference between cart and basket?

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Basket is a synonym of cart.



As nouns the difference between cart and basket

is that cart is a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers while basket is a lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

As verbs the difference between cart and basket

is that cart is to carry goods while basket is to place in a basket or in baskets.

As a proper noun CART

is acronym of lang=en|Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America.

cart

English

(wikipedia cart)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old English .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
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  • A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
  • Derived terms
    * cartwheel * dogcart * go-cart * golf cart * luggage cart * oxcart * pushcart * put the cart before the horse * shopping cart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry goods.
  • I've been carting these things around all day .
  • To carry or convey in a cart.
  • (obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
  • * Prior
  • She chuckled when a bawd was carted .

    References

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (cartridge).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
  • My ''Final Fantasy'' cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

    Anagrams

    * *

    basket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1773 ,
  • 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 .
  • (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
  • # A singlestick with a basket hilt.
  • #* 1773 ,
  • Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets .
  • (ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
  • (Gwilt)

    Synonyms

    * (container used in a shop) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart * (storage place for online items) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart * (basketball) basketball, hoops

    Derived 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 * wastebasket

    See also

    * trug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a or in baskets.
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