What's the difference between basket and gasket?

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.

Gasket


Definition:

  • (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
  • (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
  • (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (2) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.
  • (3) The chamber consists of two glass microscope slides suitably prepared for cell growth and a gasket of silicone rubber.
  • (4) The size of the power device is 1 cm3; it may be inserted into the injector, which then does not need a gasket any more.
  • (5) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.
  • (6) The use of plastic or Parafilm gaskets for dry mounting was developed to facilitate the handling and examination of the stained cover slip preparations.
  • (7) The total efficiency could be up to 25 percent by improving the gasket to reduce the frictional force.
  • (8) The LCM uses a carbonated antacid tablet, a plastic bag with tap water, a candle, and a wide-mouthed glass jar provided with a tight-fitting metallic screw cap and a rubber gasket.
  • (9) Investigations carried out in a period in which rigors were particularly common showed the source of bacteria to be parts of the gasket system of the Kiil dialyser, areas that are inaccessible to disinfectants.
  • (10) Because the several components of syringes, (such as barrels, gasket seals, etc.)
  • (11) It has been determined that the deodorant capacity of the above gaskets is more than two times higher than that of its "washer filter" analog manufactured by the foreign "Coloplast" company.
  • (12) The specimen rod is supported on two rubber gaskets for vibration isolation, and motorized precision micrometers with encoder readouts for position monitoring drive the motions.
  • (13) Solutions were straightforward, involving gasket changes and o-ring resizing.
  • (14) Therefore rubber D-51A can be recommended to be used as pump gaskets.
  • (15) Previous studies have indicated that leaching of organic materials from rubber gaskets may have cytotoxic effects.
  • (16) Within 2 d, fully confluent monolayers form, and ZO-1 localizes in a continuous gasket-like fashion circumscribing all cells.
  • (17) If you loved the late-1990s PC version and would blow a gasket at its conversion into a Zynga-style game with in-app purchases, avoid this remake.
  • (18) Several studies on potential migrants from packaging materials, such as heat-seal adhesives, amber polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, and rubber gaskets of aerosol valves, are presented to show that commonly encountered questions with regard to packaging materials used during product stability studies can also be answered in the same way.
  • (19) During August 1987, a large and concentrated infestation of Aedes albopictus was discovered on the property of a tire recapper and gasket manufacturer in Chicago, IL, in a densely populated urban environment.
  • (20) It was shown that the fractal dimensions measured by using the image analyzers for three curves (straight line, Koch curve, and Sierpinski gasket) were deviated by less than 2.1% from the theoretical dimension.