Sekirov Dictionary

basin

/ˈbeɪsɪn/

noun 6
verb 3
forms 5

noun6

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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 — 1590
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
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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 […] — 1876
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An enclosed or sheltered area of water where boats are moored, often equipped with piers, wharves, or docks.
- ‘Wondered if there was any chance of mooring my boat here. Basin’s pretty crowded.’ ‘Nope.’ — 1954
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.
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(no longer used) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
- They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […] — 1826

verb3

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To create a concavity or depression in.
- Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome. — 1925
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To serve as or become a basin.
- The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapid basining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington. — 1992
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To shelter or enclose in a basin.
- Caesar's subjects bathed in Caesar's blood basinned in the purple pool of Calpurnia's dream; my sister slept in an ogre's thought and woke up on the hook of a cannibal finger. — 1957

forms

basined · basinned · basining · basinning · basins

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