basin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbeɪs(ə)n/    美 /ˈbeɪs(ə)n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
    — First, as you know, my house within the city Is richly furnished with plate and gold, Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
  2. A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food. obsolete
    — […] Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […]
  3. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
    — This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]
  4. An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
    — Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
  5. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To create a concavity or depression in.
    — Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
  2. To serve as or become a basin.
    — To what degree this stress field formed in response to eastward movement of the African plate, to northward movement of the African plate relative to Europe, to basinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.
  3. To shelter or enclose in a basin.
    — A moan as of distant wind or thunder portended something at hand, the approach of which, basinned as we were among high broken ridges, patchy-scrubbed heights, and penned in by a maze of steep-sided gullies or gorges — we had no chance of observing, until it cam down in hurricane strength.

词形变化

basins plural bason alternative basins present,singular,third-person basining participle,present basinning participle,present,rare basined participle,past basined past basinned participle,past,rare basinned past,rare bason alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Amazon Basin Badwater Basin basinal basin and range topography basin cut basinful basinless basinlike basin of attraction basinward basinwide canal basin catch-basin catchment basin Chad Basin debris basin detention basin drainage basin Foxe basin handbasin infiltration basin interbasin intrabasin Judith Basin County macrobasin Mediterranean basin metabasin model basin multibasin oceanic basin palaeobasin paleobasin pudding-basin pudding basin pudding basin haircut receiving basin recharge basin retarding basin retention basin river basin sedimentary basin ship model basin slop-basin subbasin sugar basin Tarim Basin The Basin tidal basin washbasin washhand-basin
相关词
Basin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *baskis
Gaulish *baskisder.
Vulgar Latin bacca
Vulgar Latin *baccinum
Old French bacinbor.
Middle English basyn
English basin
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *baskis
Gaulish *baskisder.
Vulgar Latin bacca
Vulgar Latin *baccinum
Old French bacinbor.
Middle English basyn
English basin
From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
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