Basket vs. Bag — 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 bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container. The use of bags predates recorded history, with the earliest bags being no more than lengths of animal skin, cotton, or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings of the same material.Despite their simplicity, bags have been fundamental for the development of human civilization, as they allow people to easily collect loose materials such as berries or food grains, and to transport more items than could readily be carried in the hands.

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

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

A net fixed on a hoop used as the goal.

A handbag; a purse.

Euphemism for bastard (sense 1 of the noun)

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

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

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

The amount that a basket can hold.

An object that resembles a pouch.

An item resembling such a container in shape or function.

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

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

The amount that a bag can hold.

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

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

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.

(Baseball) A base.

A field goal.

(Slang) An area of interest or skill

(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.

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

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

To put into a bag

(by extension) A bed for a cat.

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

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

To capture or kill as game

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

To gain; acquire

(figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.

To capture or arrest

(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

To accomplish or achieve

(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

To fail to attend purposely; skip

(uncountable) The game of basketball.

To stop doing or considering; abandon

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.

To terminate the employment of.

The male genitalia and region surrounding it.

To pack items in a bag.

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

To hang loosely

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

To swell out; bulge.

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

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

A singlestick with a basket hilt.

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

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

(colloquial) One's preference.

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

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

Bastard.

A fellow gay man.

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

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

(transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

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.

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

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

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

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

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

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

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

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 scrotum.

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

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

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.

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

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.

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

To put into a basket.

£1000, a grand.

A container that is usually woven and has handles

(informal) A large number or amount.

The quantity contained in a basket

(transitive) To put into a bag.

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

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

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

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

(slang) To steal.

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

(slang) To arrest.

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

To hang like an empty bag.

To drop away from the correct course.

To become pregnant.

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

To show particular puffy emotion

To swell with arrogance.

To laugh uncontrollably.

To criticise sarcastically.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

The quantity of game bagged.

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

To swell with arrogance.

To become pregnant.

A flexible container with a single opening;

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

The quantity that a bag will hold;

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Capture or kill, as in hunting;

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Take unlawfully

Put into a bag;