basin
B1Meanings
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noun
a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
the basin of the Great Salt Lake
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noun
the quantity that a basin will hold
a basinful of water
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noun
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
First, as you know, my house within the city Is richly furnished with plate and gold, Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
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noun
A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
[…] Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […]
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noun
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]
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noun
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
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verb
To create a concavity or depression in.
Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
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verb
To serve as or become a basin.
To what degree this stress field formed in response to eastward movement of the African plate, to northward movement of the African plate relative to Europe, to basinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Gaulish *baskisder. Vulgar Latin bacca Vulgar Latin *baccinum Old French bacinbor. Middle English basyn English basin From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
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