Meaning of Basin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana.
2. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
3. An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.
4. A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming.
5. A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
   obsolete
6. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
7. A washbowl; a sink.
8. An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
9. A body of water that is connected to the sea and is partially or almost completely enclosed by land.
10. 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.
11. See watershed.
12. Geology a. A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center.
    Geology
13. a round container open and wide at the top with sides sloping inwards towards the bottom or base, esp one in which liquids are mixed or stored
14. Also called: basinful the amount a basin will hold
15. a washbasin or sink
16. (Nautical Terms) any partially enclosed or sheltered area where vessels may be moored or docked
17. (Physical Geography) the catchment area of a particular river and its tributaries or of a lake or sea

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Examples

“First, as you know, my house within the city Is richly furnished with plate and gold, Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;”

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

“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 with basons 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.”

“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 tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.”

“[…] 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 […]”

“They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […]”

“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,” in Tavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27, Gaspé Toujours is drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.”

“A steaming basin 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.”

“This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]”

“The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins.”

“There was a stone basin 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.”

“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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