Definitions for basin

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basin ba·sin

Spelling: [bey-suh n]

IPA: /ˈbeɪ sən/

Basin is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in basin (abins).

Definitions for basin

noun

1. a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, especially for washing.
2. any container of similar shape, as the pan of a balance.
3. the quantity held by such a container:
4. a natural or artificial hollow place containing water.
5. a partially enclosed, sheltered area along a shore, often partly man-made or dredged to a greater depth, where boats may be moored:
6. Geology. an area in which the strata dip from the margins toward a common center.
7. Physical Geography. a hollow or depression in the earth's surface, wholly or partly surrounded by higher land: drainage basin.
8. Botany. the depression in an apple, pear, or other pome at the end opposite the stem.

Origin of basin

1175-1225; Middle English bacin Old French Late Latin bac(c)īnum (bacc(a) water vessel, back³ + -īnum -ine

Examples for basin

Another boy walks around and offers a water jug and basin for everyone to wash their hands.

He picked up an Easter lily which Geneviève had brought that morning from Notre Dame, and dropped it into the basin.

Take a basin of water and a sponge, Fred, and wash the dust off.

Her mother moaned when Alice showed them to her, fragrant in a basin of water.

To-day the basin of the Luxembourg is bright with little boats.

At the same instant he plunged his hand into the basin and drew out the flower.

A lake may dry up in one region, but a new one can form when rains fill a basin elsewhere.

A pair of magnitude 4-5 earthquakes in the Los Angeles basin.

This basin was in the center of the atrium, the most important room in the house.

"They always do," said Miss Desmond, pouring water into the basin.