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basket Basketball a. an open horizontal metal hoop fixed to the backboard, through which a player must throw the ball to score points b. a point or points scored in this way basket [′bas·kət] (design engineering) A lightweight container with perforations. (mechanical engineering) A type of single-tube core barrel made from thin-wall tubing with the lower end notched into points, which is intended to pick up a sample of granular or plastic rock material by bending in on striking the bottom of the borehole or solid layer; may be used to recover an article dropped into a borehole. Also known as basket barrel; basket tube; sawtooth barrel. basket filled with treats, representative of feast on Easter Sunday. [Folklore: Misc.] See : Easter How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When life gives you lemons, make lemonade -- or better yet, just sell the lemons and buy a basketball hoop to put on your garage. Magazines that used to be filled with pictures of people hanging off cliffs now have as many pictures of climbers on rocks only as high as a basketball hoop. One of Bryce's and Brandt's projects is an angle-iron framework for a basketball hoop, so it can be mounted on the tines of a forklift. |
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