basin
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English basin, from Old French bacin, from Medieval Latin baccinum, from Late Latin bacca (“wine jug”), from Gaulish (compare Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Irish bac (“hindrance”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
basin (plural basins)
- A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
- 2012 January 1, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, 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.
- 2012 January 1, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 46:
- (geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
Synonyms [edit]
- (bowl): sink
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall
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area of water that drains into a river
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rock formation scooped out by water erosion
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External links [edit]
- basin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- basin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
See also [edit]
Basin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Basin in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French bombasin, from Lombardic bombasina (Italian bambagino), ultimately from Medieval Latin bambax, from Ancient Greek πάμϐαξ (“cotton”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /bazɛ̃/
Noun [edit]
basin m (plural basins)
- (textiles, historical) bombasine
Anagrams [edit]
Hiligaynon [edit]
Noun [edit]
basín
Volapük [edit]
Noun [edit]
basin
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