basin

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At the eastern end of the basin was a narrow channel between high rocks, where the current was extremely strong.

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  1. noun An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.
  2. noun The amount that such a vessel can hold.
  3. noun A washbowl; a sink.
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  • Then he felt Silvina's hand supporting his head, was aware that a basin was appropriately in position. —  Dragon Drums
  • Inside the basin is a smaller crater, large enough by Earth standards, but tucked inside the basin with a group of two others. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • The bottom of the basin is a vast labyrinth of stone: mile-deep chasms; sharp reefs and table-flat mesas; crenellated buttes like castles surrounded by invisible moats At the very bottom flows the only water visible in this stone country, the olive green coil of the Colorado. —  Asimov'sSF,August2007
  • Farming groups in the basin are also divided over support for the pacts. —  California Progress Report
  • The average water content of snow around the basin is approximately 71 percent of normal for this time of year, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. —  Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccīnum, from *baccus, container, of Celtic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also bason, basen, from Middle English basin, bacin, from Old French bacin, modern F. bassin = Provencal Spanish bacin = Italian bacino (Middle Latin reflex. bacinus, bassinus) = Old High German becchin, becchi, Middle High German becken, becke, German becken (later Danish bækken = Swedish bäcken), from ML, bachinus, bacchinus, bacchinum, apparently for *baccīnus, *baccīnum, properly an adjective form, from bacca, a bowl (‘vas aquarium’: see back), perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. Gaelic bac, a hollow, a hook, crook, = Welsh bach, a hook, = Breton bak, bag, a shallow boat: see back. Hence basinet.
  2. from basin, n.
 

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