Basket vs. Trug — What's the Difference?

A basket is a container that is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers and can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane. While most baskets are made from plant materials, other materials such as horsehair, baleen, or metal wire can be used.

A shallow, usually oval gardening basket made with wide strips of wood.

A container used to hold or carry things, typically made from interwoven strips of cane or wire

A shallow, oval basket used for gardening

A net fixed on a hoop used as the goal.

(obsolete) A trough or tray.

Euphemism for bastard (sense 1 of the noun)

(obsolete) A hod for mortar.

A container made of interwoven material, such as rushes or twigs.

(obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.

The amount that a basket can hold.

A trough, or tray.

An item resembling such a container in shape or function.

A concubine; a harlot.

A usually open gondola suspended from a hot-air balloon.

A group of related things, such as financial securities or products in a specific market.

Either of the two goals normally elevated ten feet above the floor, consisting of a metal hoop from which an open-bottomed circular net is suspended.

A field goal.

(Sports) A usually circular or star-shaped structure at the base of a ski pole, used to prevent the pole from sinking too deeply into the snow.

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

(by extension) A bed for a cat.

A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

(internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

(figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.

(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.

(uncountable) 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 men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.

The male genitalia and region surrounding it.

(slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.

(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

A singlestick with a basket hilt.

(ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

Bastard.

A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method

(transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.

To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.

A container shaped like a basket{1}, even if made of solid material rather than woven; - the top is often, but not always, open and without a lid.

A vessel suspended below a balloon, designed to carry people or measuring instruments for scientific research.

A goal{3} consisting of a short cylindrical net suspended from a circular rim, which itself is attached at about ten feet above floor level to a backboard, placed at the end of a basketball court. In professional basketball, two such baskets are used, one at each end of the court, and each team may score only by passing the ball though its own basket. In informal games, only one such basket is often used.

An instance of scoring points by throwing the basketball through the basket; as, he threw four baskets in the first quarter; - the ball must pass through the basket from above in order to score points.

To put into a basket.

A container that is usually woven and has handles

The quantity contained in a basket

Horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball

A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop