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Definition: Basin |
BasinNoun1. A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids. 2. The quantity that a basin will hold; "a basin of water". 3. A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it; "the basin of the Great Salt Lake". 4. The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; "flood control in the Missouri basin". 5. A bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "basin" was first used: sometime around 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Basin \Ba"sin\, noun. [Old French expression bacin, French bassin, Late Latin expression bacchinus, from bacca water vessel, from the Latin expression bacca berry, in allusion to the round shape; or perhaps from Celtic. Compare to Bac.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Basin or Bason. (1.) A trough or laver (Heb. aggan') for washing (Ex. 24:6); rendered also "goblet" (Cant. 7:2) and "cups" (Isa. 22:24). (2.) A covered dish or urn (Heb. k'for) among the vessels of the temple (1 Chr. 28:17; Ezra 1:10; 8:27). (3.) A vase (Heb. mizrak) from which to sprinkle anything. A metallic vessel; sometimes rendered "bowl" (Amos 6:6; Zech. 9:15). The vessels of the tabernacle were of brass (Ex. 27:3), while those of the temple were of gold (2 Chr. 4:8). (4.) A utensil (Heb. saph) for holding the blood of the victims (Ex. 12:22); also a basin for domestic purposes (2 Sam. 17:28). The various vessels spoken of by the names "basin, bowl, charger, cup, and dish," cannot now be accurately distinguished. The basin in which our Lord washed the disciples' feet (John 13:5) must have been larger and deeper than the hand-basin. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A depressed area having no surface outlet. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Large basin either permanently filled with water (wet --) or capable of being filled and chained (dry -- or graving --). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real friendships and elevations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Wide shallow metal pan used to receive wine during racking. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Depressed area with no surface outlet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A depression in the Earth's surface that collects sediment. (references) |
Hydrologic | An area having a common outlet for its surface runoff. (references) |
Mining | A. A natural depression of strata containing a coalbed or other stratified deposit. CF:depression b. The lowest part of a mine or area of coal lands c. A general region with an overall history of subsidence and thicksedimentary section. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A device underlying the tower to receive the cold water from the tower and direct its flow to the suction line or sump. Generally constructed of concrete; however, in small towers it can be constructed of wood or steel. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Basin is a town located in Jefferson County, Montana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 255.Geography
Basin is located at 46°16'36" North, 112°16'4" West (46.276564, -112.267756)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.3 km² (12.8 mi²). 33.3 km² (12.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 255 people, 113 households, and 69 families residing in the town. The population density is 7.7/km² (19.9/mi²). There are 146 housing units at an average density of 4.4/km² (11.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 95.29% White, 0.00% African American, 1.57% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 2.75% from two or more races. 1.96% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 113 households out of which 29.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% are married couples living together, 5.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.9% are non-families. 32.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.26 and the average family size is 2.93. In the town the population is spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $22,500, and the median income for a family is $30,000. Males have a median income of $26,250 versus $15,714 for females. The per capita income for the town is $11,878. 32.6% of the population and 23.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 56.0% are under the age of 18 and 16.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Basin, Montana."
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Basin is the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,238.Geography
Basin is located at 44°22'44" North, 108°2'35" West (44.378777, -108.043100)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.3 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.47% water.Demographics
As of the census1 of 2000, there are 1,238 people, 504 households, and 330 families residing in the town. The population density is 236.6/km² (613.7/mi²). There are 565 housing units at an average density of 108.0/km² (280.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.77% White, 0.08% African American, 1.05% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.97% from other races, and 0.89% from two or more races. 2.26% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 504 households out of which 22.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% are married couples living together, 6.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.5% are non-families. 31.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.20 and the average family size is 2.74. In the town the population is spread out with 20.1% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 19.6% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 26.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 48 years. For every 100 females there are 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $33,519, and the median income for a family is $42,768. Males have a median income of $33,942 versus $20,139 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,890. 11.6% of the population and 6.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.5% are under the age of 18 and 12.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Basin, Wyoming."
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A watershed is the region of land that drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. Rain that falls anywhere within a given body of water's watershed will eventually drain into that body of water.
The term can also mean the topographical dividing line between these drainage baisins: watersheds usually run along mountain ridges.
Watersheds in ecology
Watersheds constitute a very important type of ecoregion. Pollution anywhere within the watershed can potentially affect life anywhere downstream from it.
Watersheds in politics
Watersheds have been important historically in determining boundaries, particularly in regions where trade by water has been important. For example, the English crown gave the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly on the Indian trade in the entire Hudson Bay watershed, an area called Rupert's Land. The company later acquired the North American watershed of the Arctic Ocean (the North-Western Territory). These lands later became part of Canada as the Northwest Territories, making up the majority of Canada's land area.
Today, bioregional democracy can include agreements of states in a particular watershed to defend it. These include the Great Lakes Commission, which deals with the largest fresh watershed in the world.
Ocean watersheds
One can divide up the world among the watersheds of the oceans and largest seas.
The Atlantic Ocean watershed consists of the Saint Lawrence River and Great Lakes watersheds, plus the Eastern Seaboard, Canadian Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador in North America; nearly all of South America (that portion east of the Andes); northern Europe; and the greatest portion of western Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Caribbean Sea watershed consists of all of the American interior (the Louisiana Purchase, which involved the watershed of the Mississippi River); eastern Central America; and far northern South America.
The Mediterranean Sea watershed consists of much of northeastern Africa, including Egypt, Libya, and Sudan (the Nile watershed), as well as southern and eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Levant.
Of course, the previous two can be considered part of the Atlantic watershed, since the Caribbean Sea is part of the Atlantic ocean and drains into the Mediterranean. (higher evapuration)
The Indian Ocean watershed consists of the eastern coast of Africa, the coasts of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, Burma, and most of Australia.
The Pacific Ocean watershed consists of much of China, southeastern Russia, Japan, Korea, most of Indonesia and Malaysia, the Philippines, the rest of the Pacific islands, and the northeast coast of Australia; as well as Alaska, British Columbia, the western United States and Central America, and the coast of South America (the smaller portion west of the Andes).
The Arctic Ocean watershed consists of the aforementioned Rupert's Land, and most of the territory of Russia.
In addition to the oceanic watersheds, a portion of the Earth's land surface consists of inland basins, which drain into no ocean. The largest of these consists of much of the interior of Asia, and drains into the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. Other basins include the Great Basin in the United States, much of the Sahara Desert, the watershed of the Okavango River, highlands near the African Great Lakes, the interiors of Australia and the Arabian Peninsula, and parts in Mexico and the Andes.
See hydrology.
Watershed is also a term used to describe a time in television schedules beyond which it is permissable to show a television programme which have an 'adult content', ie nudity, explicit sex, violence, strong language. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland the specified Watershed time is 9pm.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Watershed."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BASIN | English | International Building Advisory Service and Information Network | Building & Civil Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BasinSynonyms: basinful (n), lavatory (n), river basin (n), washbasin (n), washbowl (n), washstand (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor. |
Concavity | Cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell; (receptacle); socket. |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Receptacle | Bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti, lota, mussuk, schooner, spider, terrine, toby, urceus. |
Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Basin Street Revue (1956) Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945) Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941) West of Pinto Basin (1940) Riders of Pasco Basin (1940) | |
Song Titles | Basin Street Blues (performing artist: Henry Butler) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This mosaic shows the Caloris Basin (located half-way in shadow on the terminator).Caloris is Latin for heat and the basin is named this because it is nearthe subsolar point (the point closest to the sun) when Mercury is at perihelion (theclosest point in its orbit to the sun). Credit: NASA. |  | Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA. |
 | Bank of recording instruments at Honolulu geophysical observatory Recording tidal levels at remote sites throughout Pacific Basin Used for tsunami warning system. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Map from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Mitchell Basin map showing small portion of Sigsbee Escarpment Image is 30 nautical miles by approximately 50 nautical miles. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View of the shrimp basin, the giant "E", and the intracoastal waterway. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Broken marsh in Barataria Basin just west of the levee. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Shrimp boats in the Shrimp Basin. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A yacht basin with a municipal vessel assistance craft. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Leaving Roosevelt Roads, fog seen in the basin. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Part of the Blackbird Mine site, the Bucktail drainage basin. This image shows contaminated waste rock and tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Chisos Basin Sunrise" by Jeff Noble Commentary: "Sunrise in the Chisos Mountain Basin in Big Bend National Park, Texas." | "Tides in Arcachon Basin 2" by Francois Egli Commentary: "Tides in the French Archacon Basin ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | This Commission shall sit in the territory of the Saar Basin. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Around the great basin, the earth was already so dry as to be almost baked |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Still for a moment she stared at him, and then she poured water from a bucket into the tin wash basin and she washed her hands |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In proportion as the mouth of the cove was wider compared with its length, the water over the bar was deeper compared with that in the basin. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The error in the hemoglobin gene results from a genetic mutation that occurred many thousands of years ago in people in parts of Africa, the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East, and India. (references) | |
Most cases of eosinophilic meningitis have been reported from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin, although the infection is spreading to many other areas of the world, including Africa and the Caribbean. (references) | ||
Areas currently listed as high risk are the Mediterranean Basin (Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, North Africa), South and Central America, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Unpasteurized cheeses, sometimes called "village cheeses," from these areas may represent a particular risk for tourists. (references) | ||
Business | This was reaffirmed with the 1979 discoveries of gas deposits in the Northwest Basin. (references) | |
The second project, Nakhla, is located in a water basin near Tetouan, located in northern Morocco. (references) | ||
In general, all nations in the Mediterranean Basin saw a double-digit tourism growth in the last three years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Grenada | Grenada also is a beneficiary of the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative. (references) |
Dominica | Dominica is a beneficiary of the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). (references) | |
Morocco | In 2000, USAID helped create the River Basin Agency for the Souss-Massa. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | They are ethnically distinct from the diverse indigenous groups that live on the eastern side of the Andes and in the tropical lowlands adjacent to the Amazon basin. (references) |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | The exploitation of iron ore and hydropower generation in the Caroni river basin remain reserved for the state. (references) |
THE BAHAMAS | Designation under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) trade program allows qualified Bahamian goods to enter the United States duty-free. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | In May 2000, the U.S. Senate passed the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA). (references) |
Trinidad | Trinidad and Tobago is one of the 23 countries benefiting from the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). (references) | |
Haiti | On October 2, 2000, President Clinton designated Haiti as a beneficiary of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA). (references) | |
Worker Rights | Costa Rica | In June that complaint served as the basis for an AFL-CIO petition to remove Costa Rica from the list of beneficiary countries under the U.S. General System of Preferences and the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | In Central America and the Caribbean Basin, we are likewise engaged in a partnership for peace, prosperity, and democracy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That's why I would like to ask you again to finalize our groundbreaking African and Caribbean Basin trade initiatives. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Basin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.75% of the time. "Basin" is used about 1,168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.75% | 978 | 7,481 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.25% | 190 | 22,288 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Basin Exploration, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Basin, WY (town, FIPS 5320) |
Expressions using "basin": Adams Basin ♦ artesian basin ♦ basin folds ♦ basin for saving locking water ♦ basin listing ♦ basin of an attractor ♦ Bhavani stilling basin ♦ catch basin ♦ catchment basin ♦ coal basin ♦ cold water basin ♦ debris basin ♦ Donets Basin ♦ drainage basin ♦ emesis basin ♦ flood detention basin ♦ flood retention basin ♦ free jet basin ♦ free jet stilling basin ♦ hump basin ♦ hump stilling basin ♦ hydrographical basin ♦ hydrological basin ♦ impact basin ♦ impact stilling basin ♦ jet diffusion basin ♦ jet diffusion stilling basin ♦ Judith Basin County ♦ lake basin ♦ ocean basin ♦ pudding basin ♦ recharging basin ♦ retarding basin ♦ river basin ♦ roller type stilling basin ♦ scour basin ♦ sedimentary basin ♦ sedimentation basin ♦ settling basin ♦ shallow two handled basin ♦ slop basin ♦ starved basin ♦ stilling basin ♦ stilling basin appurtenances ♦ structural basin ♦ sugar basin ♦ thrift basin chamber ♦ tidal basin ♦ Venus's basin ♦ washand basin ♦ water basin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "basin": basin-and-rise, basin-floors, basin-forming, basin-hat, basin-like, basin-nut, basin-shaped, basin-wide. | |
Ending with "basin": drainage-basin, hand-basin, sub-basin, wash-basin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "basin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bak (bake, bowl, box, container, fry, jug, pelvis, tub, vat, vessel), bekken (bowl, cymbal, pelvis), bassin (reservoir). (various references) | |
Albanian | tas (bowl), sahan (bowl, pannikin), pellg ujor, liman (bay, blight, cove, fleet, Harbor, harbour, haven, nook, port), legeni (bowl, pelvis), legen (hip, Laver, pelvis, toiletware, tub, washbowl), lavaman (lavatory, sink, washbasin, wash-hand, washing-stand, washstand), hauz (mere, pond), gji i mbrojtur. (various references) | |
Arabic | حوض النهر, حوض (cistern, dock, lavatory, pan, pelvis, receptacle, tank, trough, tub), طشت (pan, washtub), الجفنة (sink). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | резервоар (barrel, cistern, container, feed-tank, receiver, reservoir, tank), леген, басейн (catchment area, catchment basin, drainage basin, river basin). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盆地 (depression), 盆 , 水盆 , 水池 (POOL). (various references) | |
Czech | bazén (pool, swimming pool), zátoka (cove, Creek, gulf, inlet), umyvadlo (bowl, sink), povodí (catchment area), pánev (field, pan, pelvis, saucepan, skillet), nádrž (reservoir, tank), mísa (basinful, bowl, dish, tureen), kotlina (bowl). (various references) | |
Danish | kumme (bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Dutch | bekken (bowl, cymbal, pelvis), vont (bowl, pelvis), kom (bowl, get, pelvis, reservoir). (various references) | |
Esperanto | baseno (reservoir), pelvo (bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Faeroese | brunnur (reservoir, well), koka (bowl, pelvis), kerald (bowl, pelvis), hylur (pool, reservoir). (various references) | |
Farsi | لگن , حوزه رودخانه , تشتک , ابگیر (Pool, Sluice), دستشوءی (Lavatory, Washstand). (various references) | |
Finnish | vati (bowl, course, dish, pelvis, plate, platter), allas (pool, trough). (various references) | |
French | bassin (bay), cuvette (bath), bol, bassine. (various references) | |
German | becken (basins, bowl, cymbal, cymbals, pan, pelves, pelvic, pelvis, pond, pool, reservoir, sink, tank), Stromgebiet, Schale (bark, bowl, capsule, carapace, champagne glass, course, cup, dish, hull, husk, pan, peel, peeling, pelvis, plate, platter, pod, rind, scarves, shell, shuck, skin), hafenbecken (dock, inland port). (various references) | |
Greek | λεκάνη (boiler, bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | legeni (bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שוקת (trough), קערה (bowl, dish), אגן (bowl, pan), כיור (pot, sink, washbasin), בקעה (plain, valley). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mosdótál (washbasin, washbowl, wash-bowl, wash-hand basin), medence (bowl, cove, Covey, hearth, hollow, lobe, pelvis, recess), vízgyűjtő terület (catchment, catchment area, catchment basin), vájdling, tál (bowl, charger, dish, platter, vessel), mosdókagyló (lavabo, sink, washbasin, wash-basin, wash-bowl). (various references) | |
Indonesian | baskom, bajan, wadah (bowl), cekungan (be sunken, cavity). (various references) | |
Italian | bacino (bowl, dock, field, hipbone, hollow, pelvis), vasca (bathtub, pond, pool, tank, tub), catino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 盆地. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうち (back regions, backwoods, depression, hinterland, hollow, interior, pit, reaching a peak, reaching the limit), くぼち (depression, hollow, pit), ぼんち, かいぼん, りゅういき. (various references) | |
Korean | 물동이. (various references) | |
Malay | mangkuk (bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Manx | thamane, moir ny hushtaghyn (catchment, river source, riverhead), meilley (nipple, wooden bowl), lhong-phurt, awin-tragh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skål (bowl, pelvis). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kònchi (reservoir). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asinbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bacia (bowl, drainage-basin, draw, reservoir, washbasin), vasilha (bowl, box, can, canister, coalburner, container, jug, paten, vase, vessel, water-craft). (various references) | |
Romanian | bazin (area, cistern, dock, field, region, reservoir, tank, well), strachinã (bowl, dish, porringer, tureen), radã (road, roadstead), port natural, lighean, lavoar (washstand), havuz, depresiune (blues, bottom, cave, cavity, dejection, delve, depression, despondency, draw, hollow, melancholia, notch, pan, sag, scoop), circ (circus, monkey business, tan), chiuvetã (sink). (various references) | |
Russian | бассейн (bay, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage basin, pond, pool, reservoir, swimming pool). (various references) | |
Scottish | basaidh (a basin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bazen (piscine, pool), zdela (bowl, dish, jorum, porringer), sliv, polazna tačka (basis, initial point, start point, starting point, toehold), čanak (canakin). (various references) | |
Spanish | cuenca (bowl, catchment area, hollow, socket, watershed), tazón (bowl, cootie, mug, pan, pelvis), recipiente de agua (reservoir), pelvis (bowl, pelvis), fuente (bowl, chalybeate, deodorant, dish, font, fount, fountain, headpiece, pelvis, platter, pool, quarter, source, spring, Springhead, well, wellspring), dársena (dock, shipside). (various references) | |
Swedish | skål (bowl, box, cheerio, cheers, container, dish, good health, health, here's to you, jug, pan, patella, pelvis, pledge, toast, vessel), bassäng (pool, reservoir, swimming-bath, swimming-pool), handfat, fat (barrel, barrelful, cask, casque, course, dish, plate, platter, puncheon, saucer, Tun, vat, wood). (various references) | |
Thai | บริเวณลุ่มน้ำ (river basin). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalak (trough), leğen (bowl, dolly tub, pelvic, washbasin, washbowl, washtub), koy (arm, armlet, bay, bight, cove, Creek, indentation, inlet, Loch, sound), kara ile çevrili liman, kâse (bowl, cup, hollowware), havza (catchment, catchment area, river basin), havuz (piscina, piscine, pond, pool). (various references) | |
Turkmen | taссyr, legen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставок (mere, pond, pound, stank, water hole), улоговина (pan, pothole), резервуар (bin, cistern, container, fount, reservoir), чаша (bowl, chalice, cistern, cup), таз (pelvis), водойма (cistern, tank, water), маленька бухта, миска (bowl), басейн (baths, drainage basin, pond, pool, reservoir, swimming pool), поклад (nest egg). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bể (vat), bồn vũng, vịnh nhỏ (fleet, inlet). (various references) | |
Welsh | basn (bowl), mail (bowl), dysgl (dish), cawg (bowl, pitcher). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alveus, amulas, bacca, crater, labris, labrum, labrumque, lebes, lebetas, lebete, lebetem, lebetes, lebetis, pelvis, piscina, piscinae, piscinam, piscinas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eita ballei udwr eiV ton nipthra kai hrxato niptein touV podaV twn maqhtwn kai ekmassein tw lentiw w hn diezwsmenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deinde mittit aquam in pelvem et coepit lavare pedes discipulorum et extergere linteo quo erat praecinctus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Æfter þam he dede wæter on fæt. & þwog his leorning-cnihte fët. & dreide hyomid þare lin-wæde þe he wæs mið be-gert. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And aftirward he putte watir in to a basyn, and biganne to waische the disciplis feet, and to wipe with the lynnen cloth, with which he was gird. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | After that poured he water into a basyn and beganne to wash his disciples fete and to wype them with the towell wherwith he was gyrde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | After that, he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug naghuwad siyag tubig sa palanggana ug iyang gisugdan ang pagpanghugas sa mga tiil sa mga tinun-an ug sa pagpahid niini sa tualya nga iyang gibakus. |
| Croatian | Nalije zatim vodu u praonik i poène uèenicima prati noge i otirati ih ubrusom kojim je bio opasan. |
| Danish | Derefter hælder han Vand i Vaskefadet og begyndte at to Disciplenes Fødder og at tørre dem med Linklædet, som han var ombunden med. |
| Dutch | Daarna goot Hij water in het bekken, en begon de voeten der discipelen te wassen, en af te drogen met den linnen doek, waarmede Hij omgord was. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän kaatoi vettä pesumaljaan ja rupesi pesemään opetuslastensa jalkoja ja pyyhkimään niitä liinavaatteella, jolla oli vyöttäytynyt. |
| French | Ensuite il versa de l`eau dans un bassin, et il se mit à laver les pieds des disciples, et à les essuyer avec le linge dont il était ceint. |
| German | Darnach goß er Wasser in ein Becken, hob an, den Jüngern die Füße zu waschen, und trocknete sie mit dem Schurz, damit er umgürtet war. |
| Hungarian | Azután vizet tölte a medenczébe, és kezdé mosni a tanítványok lábait, és megtörleni a kendõvel, a melylyel körül van kötve. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah itu Ia menuang air ke dalam sebuah baskom, lalu mulai membasuh kaki pengikut-pengikut-Nya dan mengeringkannya dengan anduk yang terikat di pinggang-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu Ia menuang air ke dalam sebuah bokor, lalu mulai membasuh kaki murid-murid-Nya dan menyapu dengan kain yang terikat dipinggang-Nya itu. |
| Maori | Me i reira ka ringihia e ia he wai ki te peihana, a ka anga ka horoi i nga waewae o nga akonga, ka muru hoki ki te tauera i whitikiria ai ia. |
| Norwegian | Derefter slår han vann i et fat, og så begynte han å vaske disiplenes føtter og å tørke dem med linklædet som han var ombundet med. |
| Portuguese | Depois deitou água na bacia e começou a lavar os pés aos discípulos, e a enxugar-lhos com a toalha com que estava cingido. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a turnat apq kntr`un lighean wi a knceput sq spele picioarele ucenicilor, wi sq le wteargq cu wtergarul cu care era kncins. |
| Russian | рПФПН ЧМЙМ ЧПДЩ Ч ХНЩЧБМШОЙГХ Й ОБЮБМ ХНЩЧБФШ ОПЗЙ ХЮЕОЙЛБН Й ПФЙТБФШ РПМПФЕОГЕН, ЛПФПТЩН ВЩМ РТЕРПСУБО. |
| Shuar | Nuyá nijiaamatainium entsan Yará ni unuiniamuri nawen nijiatramiayi. Tura awankémjai japirmiayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha akatia maji katika bakuli, akaanza kuwaosha wanafunzi wake miguu na kuipangusa kwa kile kitambaa alichojifungia. |
| Swedish | Sedan slog han vatten i ett bäcken och begynte två lärjungarnas fötter och torkade dem med linneduken som han hade bundit om sig. |
| Uma | Oti toe, na'ala' ue natua hi batili, natepu'u-mi mpobohoi' witi' ana'guru-na, pai' naporihi hante abe' to hi hope' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "basin": basinal, basined, basinet, basinets, basinful, basinfuls, basing, basins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "basin": interbasin, subbasin, washbasin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "basin": abasing, debasing, freebasing, subbasins, washbasins. (additional references) | |
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"Basin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abasin, abin, asin, Asni, Azin, Babin, bacin, bacino, bacio, Bagsik, bahian, baij, baint, bakiin, Balson, Banin, barin, Basan, baseej, basein, basen, Basena, basia, Basina, Basinio, basjin, Baskine, bassana, Bassani, Bassene, Bassi, bassia, bassiana, bassij, bassin, Bassix, bastina, batian, Batin, Bavin, Bawsinch, bazan, Bazen, bazi, bazid, beasain, beesiana, besan, Besana, besi, Besnik, besoin, Bessin, besun, bhain, Bhsi, bhsii, Biasi, Biasia, Biosyn, Bisagno, Bisi, bisni, Bisync, Bizen, bizin, blasen, bosian, bosin, bozin, Bucin, busan, busen, busine, bwain, Dassin, fasin, kassin, vasin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "basin" (pronounced bā"sun) |
| 4 | -ā" s u n | capsaicin, chasten, hasten, Mason. |
| 3 | -s u n | fasten, aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, bison, bolson, businessperson, chairperson, christen, claxon, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, garrison, Gibson, glisten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nabis, sabin. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ains, anis, bani, bans, bias, bins, isba, nabs, nibs, sain, snib. | |
-2 letters: abs, ain, ais, ani, ban, bas, bin, bis, ins, nab, nib, sab, sib, sin. | |
-3 letters: ab, ai, an, as, ba, bi, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ablins, bairns, banish, basing, basins, basion, blains, bonsai, brains, cabins, nubias, sabine, sabins. | |
+2 letters: abasing, ablings, absinth, abstain, abusing, aiblins, albinos, bagnios, bakings, bandies, bandits, banians, banksia, banshie, banties, banzais, basenji, bashing, basinal, basined, basinet, basions, basking, basting, bastion, beanies, biasing, bisnaga, bonacis, bonitas, bonsais, brisant, disband, gabions, indabas, lesbian, obtains, rabbins, ribands, sabbing, sabeing, sabines, sabring. | |
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