- Main Entry:
- ba·sin

- Pronunciation:
-
\ˈbā-sən\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Anglo-French bacin, from Late Latin bacchinon
- Date:
- 13th century
1 a: an open usually circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing bchiefly British : a bowl used especially in cooking c: the quantity contained in a basin2 a: a dock built in a tidal river or harbor b: an enclosed or partly enclosed water area3 a: a large or small depression in the surface of the land or in the ocean floor b: the entire tract of country drained by a river and its tributaries c: a great depression in the surface of the lithosphere occupied by an ocean4: a broad area of the earth beneath which the strata dip usually from the sides toward the center
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ba·sin·al
\-sən-əl\ adjective
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ba·sined
\-sənd\ adjective
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ba·sin·ful
\-ˌfu̇l\ noun