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# basketful

«basketful» in Mova's school dictionary: **as much as a basket will hold, a basket full of things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (basketfuls)

### meaning for a pupil

A basketful is as much as a basket will hold, a basket full of things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, it is an amount you must count in, not a fixed number, as in "a basketful of strawberries".

### examples

- She picked a basketful of apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketful/#x1)
- The fox asked for a basketful of eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketful/#x2)
- Bring me a basketful of peas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketful/#x3)

### note

a basketful is not a set number; to count it, find how many things are in the basket first.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basketful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.