basin

Meanings

Noun

• A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
• A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
• A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
• An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
• A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.

Verb

• To create a concavity or depression in.
• To serve as or become a basin.
• To shelter or enclose in a basin.

Origin

• From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum ("wide bowl").