basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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(noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
(noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
(noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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(noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
(noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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casket | (noun) small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables | Synonyms: jewel casket |
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(noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: coffin |
(verb) enclose in a casket | - |
diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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(noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
(verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
(verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
sketchily | (adverb) in a sketchy incomplete manner | - |
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sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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