• bason(obsolete)

FromMiddle Englishbasyn, fromOld Frenchbacin, fromVulgar Latin*baccinum(“wide bowl”).

• (UK,US)enPR:bā'sən,IPA^(key):/ˈbeɪs(ə)n/

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• Rhymes:-eɪsən
• Homophone:besan

basin (pluralbasins)

1. A widebowl forwashing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
   • c.1590–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:

     First, as you know, my house within the city
     Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
     Basins andewers tolave her dainty hands;

   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,John13:5:

     After that he poureth water into abason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

   • 1766,T[obias] Smollett, “Letter V”, inTravels through France and Italy. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:[…] R[oberts] Baldwin, […],→OCLC:

     What then, you will say, must a man sit with his chops and fingers up to the ears and knuckles in grease? No; let those who cannot eat without defiling themselves, step into another room, provided withbasons and towels: but I think it would be better to institute schools, where youth may learn to eat their victuals, without daubing themselves, or giving offence to the eyes of one another.

   • 1923,Willa Cather,One of Ours‎^[1], Book One, Chapter 1:

     Everybody had washed before going to bed, apparently, and the bowls were ringed with a dark sediment which the hard, alkaline water had not dissolved. Shutting the door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey’s tinbasin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.

   Synonym:sink

2. (obsolete) A shallowbowl used for a singleserving of a drink or liquidy food.
   • 1815 December (indicated as1816), [Jane Austen],Emma: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Charles Roworth and James Moyes] forJohn Murray,→OCLC:

     […] 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 abasin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome[…]

   • 1826,George Wood, chapter 7, inThe Subaltern Officer: A Narrative‎^[2], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, page109:

     They have a goodbasin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast[…]

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym;Charles Dickens],Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume(please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London:Richard Bentley, […],→OCLC:

     He rose from the table; and advancing to the master,basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ¶ ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’

   • 1893,Gilbert Parker, “The March of the White Guard,” inTavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27,^[3]

     Gaspé Toujours is drinking abasin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.

   • 1915,Sarah Broom Macnaughtan, chapter 7, inA Woman’s Diary of the War‎^[4], New York: Dutton, published1916, page99:

     A steamingbasin of coffee or soup revived them greatly, and even having to decide which of these refreshments they would have, and helping themselves to bread, pulled them together a little.

3. Adepression, natural or artificial, containing water.
   • 1876,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 31, inThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company,→OCLC:

     This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whosebasin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals[…]

   • 1891,Frederic Farrar, chapter 6, inDarkness at Dawn‎^[5]:

     The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabasterbasins.

   • 1926,D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, inThe Plumed Serpent‎^[6]:

     There was a stonebasin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.

4. (geography) Anarea of land from which waterdrains into a commonoutlet;drainage basin.
   • 2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, inAmerican Scientist‎^[7], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on23 May 2012, page46:

     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 LakeBasin is an endorheic, or closed,basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

5. (geography) A shallowdepression in a rockformation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an areascooped out by watererosion.

•  basin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•  Basin in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• “basin”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “basin”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

basin (third-person singular simple presentbasins,present participle(US)basiningorbasinning,simple past and past participle(US)basinedorbasinned)

1. To create a concavity or depression in.
   • 1925 June, Reginald A. Daly, “The Geology of Ascension Island”, inProceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume60, number 1:

     Then axial subsidencebasined the surface of the dome.

   • 2003,The Numismatist - Volume 116, Issues 7-12, page21:

     Basining is the process that gives the faces of the dies their radius, or concavity. Depending on the production method, the planchet metal flows either toward or away from the center of the dies. The minting facilities "basined" the dies after they were delivered from the Philadelphia Mint's Engraving Department.

   • 2005, David W. Lange,The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents, page 8:

     Of course, this is exactly what did happen—the antiquated practice ofbasining the dies was cast aside for the Lincoln Cent.

   • 2013, Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove,Symphony of the Earth, page47:

     Scandinavia wasbasined under the load of the last or so-called Würm ice-cap.

2. To serve as or become a basin.
   • 1976, Günther Kunkel,Monographiae Biologicae - Volume 30, page77:

     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, tobasinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.

   • 1992, John H. Bush, W. Patrick Seward,Geologic field guide to the Columbia River, page 9:

     The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapidbasining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington.

   • 2009, Richard K. Talbot, Lane D. Richens,Shifting Sands: The Archaeology of Sand Hollow, page90:

     Wallsbasined at a ca. 45° angle on the southwest side, but on the west and north there was littlebasining, with the floor sloping gently up to the original ground surface.

   • 2012, E. Hansen,Strain Facies, page133:

     Deformation of the rocks involved in anticline formation increased as deformation of the rocks involved inbasining decreased, and the less intense structures of the norfold facies developed in both regions.

3. To shelter or enclose in a basin.
   • 1888, Henry Stuart Russell,The Genesis of Queensland:

     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.

   • 1920,Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, page16:

     A row of trees wasbasined in the latter part of April, and by the latter part of July, a little over three months, there was a remarkable improvement in the appearance of the basined row compared with the check trees.

   • 1957,Quest - Volumes 13-19, page28:

     Caesar's subjects bathed in Caesar's bloodbasinned 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.

   • 2007,The Legal Studies Forum - Volume 31, page1103:

     They took a narrow path through the snow, up the hill whichbasined the village, and on to a plateau, a stretch of sparsely treed land.

   • 2012, Charles King,An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier, page173:

     Well back under this natural shelter,basined in the hollowed rock, a blessed pool of fair water lay unwrinkled by even a flutter of breeze.

• Bains,Bians,IBANs,Ibans,Nabis,Sabin,bains,nabis,naibs,nisab,nisba,sabin

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈba.zin]

basin

1. inflection ofbasar:
   1. third-personpluralpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personpluralimperative

• IPA^(key):/ˈbasin/ [ˈba.s̪ɪn̪]
• Hyphenation:ba‧sin

básin (Badlit spellingᜊᜐᜒᜈ᜔)

1. maybe

   Synonyms:tingali,seguro

Inherited fromOld Frenchbombasin, ultimately fromMedieval Latinbombyx,bambax, fromAncient Greekπάμβαξ(pámbax,“cotton”).

• IPA^(key):/ba.zɛ̃/

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basin m (pluralbasins)

1. (textiles,historical)bombasine

• “basin”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• bains

basín

1. toilet

basin

1. (anatomy)kidney

basin

1. Alternative form ofbasyn

basin n (pluralbasinuri)

1. Obsolete form ofbazin.

• basin in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

basin (nominative pluralbasins)

1. basin
2. water basin