Basket vs. Hamper — 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 hamper refers to one of several related basket-like items. In primarily British usage, it refers to a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.

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

To prevent the free movement, action, or progress of

A net fixed on a hoop used as the goal.

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals

Euphemism for bastard (sense 1 of the noun)

A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper

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

(UK) A gift basket.

The amount that a basket can hold.

A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

An item resembling such a container in shape or function.

(nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

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

(transitive) To put into a hamper.

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

(transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle

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.

To impede in motion or progress.

A field goal.

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

(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 shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

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

Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

(by extension) A bed for a cat.

To put in a hamper.

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

To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; to entangle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

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

A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

(figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.

A basket usually with a cover

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

Prevent the progress or free movement of;

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

Put at a disadvantage;

(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