What's the difference between basket and casket?

Basket


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
  • (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
  • (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
  • (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
  • (v. t.) To put into a basket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
  • (2) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
  • (3) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (4) The price of a basket of 20 Unilever products has gone up by an average of 5.7% since the Brexit vote , according to analysis by the Guardian and price comparison site MySupermarket.com published last month.
  • (5) The dissolution rate of the microcapsules was determined by the rotating-basket and rotating-bottle methods.
  • (6) And the government doesn't ask 300 million people; it asks only 7,000 families to keep diaries about how much they're spending on a basket of 200 products; the diaries lasted for either two weeks or three months.
  • (7) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
  • (8) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
  • (9) The calcium-binding protein, parvalbumin, is found in each type of basket cell but less than 40% of the basket endings display parvalbumin-immunoreactivity.
  • (10) Four cases of non-surgical extraction of iatrogenic vascular foreign bodies are reported, in two of which a basket sound was used, and two others a metallic collar.
  • (11) The puncture set was improved, and a special basket was developed to extract stones that had escaped into the cystic duct.
  • (12) Toronto Cheapest for salmon Pricey for almost everything else Canada's biggest city came out the surprise loser in our survey, with our basket of goods costing 40% more in Toronto than in Berlin.
  • (13) Within these fields, the development of perineuronal baskets followed a similar medial to lateral sequence: DA axons first surrounded a few neuronal cell bodies at P3 in the medial part of the intermediate LSN; at P6, Met-IR axons encircled more laterally located perikarya, and only at P9, some neurons located along the ventricle in the lateral DA field became surrounded.
  • (14) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
  • (15) The concept implies a dynamic food basket, the quantities of which are calculated in a way that simulates the behavior of the consumer and the best nutrition knowledge.
  • (16) Calculi were removed from the upper urinary tracts and the distal ureter in single sessions in 2 patients with the aid of prone flexible cystoscopy and a through-and-through stone basket.
  • (17) In the evening, the police hand out baskets of basic necessities in the Alvorada neighbourhood.
  • (18) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
  • (19) For removal of catheter fragments from vessels of small diameter, such as the subclavian vein, or vessels in which the catheter has to take an acute bend to enter, such as the right or left pulmonary artery, a smaller, more pliable Bean-Smith-Mahorner biliary stone helical basket was adapted by extending the length of wire to 100 cm.
  • (20) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.

Casket


Definition:

  • (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
  • (n.) A kind of burial case.
  • (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
  • (n.) The body.
  • (n.) The tomb.
  • (n.) A book of selections.
  • (n.) A gasket. See Gasket.
  • (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (2) The military arrived with a casket to collect Mandela's body at about midnight so it could be taken to a military hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where it will lie in state this week .
  • (3) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
  • (4) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
  • (5) Pictures of the funeral show her bowed over her husband's casket, stricken with grief.
  • (6) The casket containing Havel's body was being transported from the Prague Crossroads, a former church turned by Havel into a cultural centre, to the Prague castle, the seat of the presidency, where it will be on display until Friday's state funeral.
  • (7) When the private service ended, House Speaker Paul Ryan bowed his head at the casket, made the sign of the cross and clasped his hands in prayer for about a minute.
  • (8) At the church, a large bouquet of red roses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball cap adorned Brown’s closed casket.
  • (9) The pen is being sold together with two silver caskets, one of which was presented to Lord Carson on Ulster Day to mark the occasion, the other having been a gift by Unionists to Lady Carson in 1914, to mark their wedding anniversary.
  • (10) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
  • (11) While an increasing number opt of people for “green burials” – which tend to involve burials in meadow and woodland sites, in biodegradable shrouds or caskets made of anything from cardboard to banana leaf – others ponder the role cemeteries play in our cities, and what it would mean if we lost them altogether.
  • (12) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
  • (13) The casket will be on display at the 15th century Vladislav hall until the funeral on Friday.
  • (14) Others were seen throwing flowers on the casket, also wrapped in the Iraqi flag.
  • (15) After the prayers, Davis led mourners in taking turns to pay their respects, standing quietly by her mother’s casket.
  • (16) An Iraqi flag draped over her shoulder, his mother led the mourners carrying his wooden casket and pounding their chests in grief.
  • (17) And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
  • (18) The archives of the Robert Koch Institute include a casket with preparations and handwritten notes by Robert Koch (Fig.
  • (19) WB I remember vividly the photographs in Jet magazine of Emmett Till in his casket in 1955.
  • (20) The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes and a smiling photo of the man.

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