basin
IPA: bˈeɪsʌn
noun
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (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.
- A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana
- A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming
verb
- To create a concavity or depression in.
- To serve as or become a basin.
- To shelter or enclose in a basin.
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