What's the difference between basket and scuttle?

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.

Scuttle


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad, shallow basket.
  • (n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • (v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
  • (n.) A quick pace; a short run.
  • (n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
  • (n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
  • (n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
  • (n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
  • (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government was not aware of, nor is it interested in, what Secretary Kerry announced, which represents a desire to scuttle peace efforts by trying to reach an agreement with the Houthis apart from the government,” Mekhlafi wrote on his official Twitter page.
  • (2) They can be more direct when Giroud is on the pitch, and more creative when Griezmann scuttles around the attacking third.
  • (3) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
  • (4) The subsequent collapse of AbbVie’s planned £34bn takeover of the FTSE 100 firm Shire – the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on inversions – showed that the “tax inversion risk, quite frankly, has become a reality”, he said.
  • (5) And never going anywhere near the goal, scuttling along the ground for a goal kick.
  • (6) The deal is the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on so-called tax inversions by US companies buying overseas to secure a lower tax rate.
  • (7) Republicans have thus far had little power to scuttle the agreement, reached last week between six world powers and Iran after nearly two years of negotiations and designed to restrict Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
  • (8) Boxer described the Republicans’ letter as “bizarre, inappropriate” and a “desperate ploy to scuttle a comprehensive agreement” that she said is “in the best interests of the United States, Israel and the world”.
  • (9) Over its 60 minutes, it scuttles from Africa to Haiti, where it accuses the Clintons of “disaster capitalism”, to Latin America, India and Russia.
  • (10) The tight-lipped Brady read out her oath of allegiance and scuttled off, leaving the money shot to Baroness Trumpington.
  • (11) This move would very likely scuttle the current six-month agreement, end negotiations toward a comprehensive settlement , and put us back on the path to war.
  • (12) If there is a deal, it will be very costly for Congress to scuttle.
  • (13) Ruined, lost, burnt, scuttled rigs were healing on the ocean floor and coming back.
  • (14) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
  • (15) The Journal reported on Tuesday that not only did Israel spy on Americans negotiating with Iran, but they gave that information to Republicans in Congress, in an attempt to scuttle the deal.
  • (16) For instance, in his speech, Jeb called for strengthening Egypt, the sclerotic autocracy the United States propped up for decades and whose torture and repression birthed Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood (out from under whose robes al-Qaida scuttled into the world); its current president took power in a coup and is hardly known for his weakness on anything but human rights and press freedoms .
  • (17) The ball is played into a giant gap between Ferdinand and Jones, where Silva latches on to it and scuttles goalwards.
  • (18) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
  • (19) The referee, Neil Swarbrick, ignored the penalty appeals while Mourinho scuttled off to the manager's room to watch a rerun on television before returning pitchside to make his view clear to the fourth official.
  • (20) The UK recently implemented a new data retention regime which replaced a 2009 European law scuttled by the European court of justice on privacy grounds.