basin
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
Noun 4 meanings
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To create a concavity or depression in.
To serve as or become a basin.
To shelter or enclose in a basin.
Etymology
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
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BASIN at a glance
BASIN has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + S 1 + I 1 + N 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,110 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with basin
All rhymes- COUSIN8
- ASSASSIN8
- RESIN5
- RAISIN6
- ROSIN5
- ANGIOTENSIN12
- MYOSIN11
- MOCCASIN14
- POUSSIN9
- VASOPRESSIN16
- TRYPSIN12
- CATHEPSIN16
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