Basinname

• 1

  A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana.

• 2

  A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming.

basinnoun/ˈbeɪsɪn/

• 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;
  • 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.
• 2

  obsoleteA 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 […]
  • They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […]
• 3

  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 […]
  • The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins.
• 4

  geographynatural-sciencesAn 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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  geographynatural-sciencesA 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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  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.’

basinverb/ˈbeɪsɪn/

• 1

  To create a concavity or depression in.

  • Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
  • 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.
• 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.
  • The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapid basining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington.
• 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.
  • A row of trees was basined 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.