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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
basin (plural basins)
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :First, as you know, my house within the city
Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
1766, T[obias] Smollett, “Letter V”, in Travels through France and Italy. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: R 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 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.
1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, 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 tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.
- Synonym: sink
- (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for John 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 a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […]
1826, George Wood, chapter 7, in The Subaltern Officer: A Narrative, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, page 109:They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […]
1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. , volumes (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,” 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.
1915, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan, chapter 7, in A Woman’s Diary of the War, New York: Dutton, published 1916, page 99: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.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 31, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]
1891, Frederic Farrar, chapter 6, in Darkness at Dawn:The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins.
1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Plumed Serpent: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.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46: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.
- (geography) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
wide bowl for washing
- Afrikaans: bak
- Arabic: طَشْت f (ṭašt)
- Egyptian Arabic: حوض m (ḥōḍ)
- Armenian: կոնք (hy) (konkʻ)
- Basque: arroa
- Breton: basin (br) f
- Bulgarian: умива́лник (bg) m (umiválnik)
- Carpathian Rusyn: лавор f (lavor)
- Catalan: pica (ca) f
- Chichewa: beseni
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 洗滌槽/洗涤槽 (zh) (xǐdícáo)
- Coptic: ⲙⲉⲣⲁⲛ m (meran)
- Czech: umyvadlo n
- Danish: bassin (da) n
- Dutch: bassin (nl) n
- Esperanto: pelvo, lavabo (eo), baseno (eo), lavujo
- Finnish: pesuallas (fi) (fixed); pesuvati (movable); allas (fi) (either)
- French: cuvette (fr) f, bassine (fr) f, lavabo (fr) m
- Galician: bacía f, pía (gl) f
- Georgian: აუზი (ka) (auzi)
- German: Becken (de) n, Waschbecken (de) n
- Greek: νιπτήρας (el) m (niptíras)
- Ancient: νιπτήρ m (niptḗr)
- Haitian Creole: basin, basen
- Hebrew: אַגָּן (he) m (agán)
- Ido: baseno (io)
- Indonesian: wastafel (id)
- Irish: báisín m
- Italian: lavandino (it) m, lavabo (it) m, bacinella (it) f, lavacro (it) m, lavello (it) m
- Japanese: 盥 (ja) (たらい, tarai)
- Khmer: អាងលាងសំអាត (ʼaang liəng sɑmʼaat)
- Korean: 대야 (ko) (daeya)
- Kyrgyz: миска (ky) (miska), табак (ky) (tabak), миска (ky) (miska), тепши (ky) (tepşi), бассейн (ky) (basseyn), раковина (ky) (rakovina), көлмө (ky) (kölmö), резервуар (ky) (rezervuar), ванна (ky) (vanna), таз (ky) (taz), дагара (ky) (dagara), илеген (ky) (ilegen), чылапчын (ky) (cılapcın), кудукча (ky) (kudukca), кудук (ky) (kuduk), кювета (ky) (kyuveta), котловина (ky) (kotlovina)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: alveus m, lābrum n, pelvis m
- Latvian: bļoda (lv) f
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luhya: ekarai, ebeseni
- Macedonian: мијалник m (mijalnik), лавабо́ n (lavabó)
- Malay: besen
- Maori: peihana
- Meru: karai
- Middle English: basyn
- Norman: bachîn m
- Norwegian: servant m, vaskekum m, balje m
- Old English: ċēac m
- Ottoman Turkish: قورنه (kurna)
- Persian: لگن (fa) (lagan), تشت (fa) (tašt), لانجین (fa) (lânjin)
- Polish: umywalka (pl) f
- Portuguese: bacia (pt) f, pia (pt) f
- Romanian: chiuvetă (ro) f
- Russian: таз (ru) m (taz), умыва́льник (ru) m (umyválʹnik) (washbasin)
- Scottish Gaelic: amar m
- Southern Altai: табак (tabak)
- Spanish: pileta (es) f, lavabo (es) m, lavamanos (es) m, jofaina (es) f, palangana (es) f
- Swahili: karai (sw), beseni (sw)
- Swedish: tvättfat (sv) n, handfat (sv) n
- Tagalog: palanggana n, lababo
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: อ่างล้างหน้า (àang-láang-nâa), อ่าง (th) (àang)
- Tok Pisin: dis, plet
- Turkish: tekne (tr), leğen (tr)
- Turkmen: legen
- Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎍 (spl)
- Ukrainian: таз m (taz)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: cái chảo
- Yiddish: ביט m (bit), בעקן m (bekn)
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
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shallow bowl for a single serving
depression containing water
area of land that drains into a common outlet
- Armenian: ավազան (hy) (avazan)
- Azerbaijani: hövzə (az)
- Basque: arro
- Breton: diazad m
- Bulgarian: басе́йн (bg) m (baséjn)
- Catalan: conca (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 流域 (zh) (liúyù)
- Crimean Tatar: basseyn, havza
- Czech: povodí (cs) n
- Danish: afvandingsområde (da) n
- Dutch: stroomgebied (nl) n, bekken (nl) n
- Esperanto: baseno (eo)
- Estonian: valgla, valgala (et)
- Finnish: allas (fi), valuma-alue (fi)
- French: bassin (fr) m
- Galician: bacía f
- German: Einzugsgebiet n, Einzugsbecken n
- Greek: λεκάνη απορροής (el) f (lekáni aporroḯs)
- Hebrew: אַגָּן (he) m (agán)
- Icelandic: vatnasvið n
- Ido: baseno (io)
- Indonesian: cekungan
- Irish: duga m (of canal)
- Italian: bacino (it) m, conca (it) f
- Japanese: 盆地 (ja) (ぼんち, bonchi), 流域 (ja) (りゅういき, ryūiki)
- Kazakh: қазаншұңқыр (qazanşūñqyr)
- Latvian: baseins m
- Macedonian: слив m (sliv)
- Malay: lembangan
- Maori: riu
- Norwegian: nedbørfelt n
- Nynorsk: nedslagsfelt n, nedbørsfelt n
- Polish: basen (pl) m
- Portuguese: bacia (pt) f
- Russian: бассе́йн (ru) m (basséjn), резервуа́р (ru) m (rezervuár)
- Scottish Gaelic: amar m
- Spanish: cuenca (es) f
- Swedish: avrinningsområde (sv) n
- Turkish: havza (tr)
- Ukrainian: басе́йн (uk) m (baséjn)
- Vietnamese: lưu vực (vi)
- Walloon: vås f pl, bassén (wa) m
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- Arabic: (please verify) الحوض (ar)
- Breton: (please verify) pezel (br) f, (1, affixed to a wall) (please verify) gwalc'heris (br) m
- Bulgarian: (please verify) леген (legen), (please verify) паница (bg) (panica), (please verify) малък залив (malǎk zaliv), (please verify) пристанище (bg) (pristanište), (please verify) басейн (bg) (basejn)
- Icelandic: (please verify) skál (is), (please verify) dæld (is), (please verify) vatnasvæði
- Interlingua: (please verify) bassino
- Latin: (please verify) lebes
- Telugu: (please verify) బొచ్చె (te) (bocce), (please verify) పరీవాహక ప్రాంతం (parīvāhaka prāntaṁ)
- Turkish: (please verify) leğen (tr), (please verify) kase (tr), (please verify) havza (tr)
- Volapük: (please verify) basin (vo)
- Welsh: (please verify) basn (cy), (please verify) cawg, (please verify) chawg, (please verify) ddysgl, (please verify) fail (cy), (please verify) fasn, (please verify) gawg, (please verify) mail, (please verify) masn, (please verify) nghawg, (please verify) nysgl
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See also
Further reading
- “basin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “basin”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Verb
basin (third-person singular simple present basins, present participle (US) basining or basinning, simple past and past participle (US) basined or basinned)
- To create a concavity or depression in.
1925 June, Reginald A. Daly, “The Geology of Ascension Island”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 60, number 1:Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
2003, The Numismatist - Volume 116, Issues 7-12, page 21: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 of basining the dies was cast aside for the Lincoln Cent.
2013, Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove, Symphony of the Earth, page 47:Scandinavia was basined under the load of the last or so-called Würm ice-cap.
- To serve as or become a basin.
1976, Günther Kunkel, Monographiae Biologicae - Volume 30, page 77: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.
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 rapid basining 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, page 90:Walls basined at a ca. 45° angle on the southwest side, but on the west and north there was little basining, with the floor sloping gently up to the original ground surface.
2012, E. Hansen, Strain Facies, page 133:Deformation of the rocks involved in anticline formation increased as deformation of the rocks involved in basining decreased, and the less intense structures of the norfold facies developed in both regions.
- 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, page 16: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.
1957, Quest - Volumes 13-19, page 28: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.
2007, The Legal Studies Forum - Volume 31, page 1103:They took a narrow path through the snow, up the hill which basined 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, page 173: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.
Anagrams
- Bains, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, Sabin, bains, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba, sabin
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
basin
- inflection of basar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbasin/,
- Hyphenation: ba‧sin
Adverb
básin (Badlit spelling ᜊᜐᜒᜈ᜔)
- maybe
- Synonyms: tingali, seguro
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French bombasin, ultimately from Medieval Latin bombyx, bambax, from Ancient Greek πάμβαξ (pámbax, “cotton”).
Pronunciation
Noun
basin m (plural basins)
- (textiles, historical) bombasine
Further reading
Anagrams
Hiligaynon
Noun
basín
- toilet
Keley-I Kallahan
Noun
basin
- (anatomy) kidney
Middle English
Noun
basin
- Alternative form of basyn
Romanian
Noun
basin n (plural basinuri)
- Obsolete form of bazin.
Declension
References
- basin in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Volapük
Noun
basin (nominative plural basins)
- basin
- water basin
Declension
declension of basin
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only