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Basin
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- 1 A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana.
- 2 A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming.
- 1 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;"
- 2 a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids wordnet
- 3 A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food. obsolete
"[…] 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 […]"
- 4 a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face wordnet
- 5 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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- 6 the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it wordnet
- 9 A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- 10 the quantity that a basin will hold wordnet
- 1 To create a concavity or depression in.
"Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome."
- 2 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."
- 3 To shelter or enclose in a basin.
"A moan as of distant wind or thunder portended something at hand, the approach of which, basinned as we were among high broken ridges, patchy-scrubbed heights, and penned in by a maze of steep-sided gullies or gorges — we had no chance of observing, until it cam down in hurricane strength."
Etymology
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
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