Dictionary entries for 'basin'

Synonyms

ba·sin (bā́sĭn)

[Middle English, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin* baccīnum, from * baccus, container, of Celtic origin.]

noun

1. An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.
2. The amount that such a vessel can hold.
A washbowl; a sink.
1. An artificially enclosed area of a river or harbor designed so that the water level remains unaffected by tidal changes.
2. A small enclosed or partly enclosed body of water.
A region drained by a single river system: the Amazon basin.
Geology
1. A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center.
2. A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.