transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈbā-s ə n ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French bacin, from Late Latin bacchinon
Date: 13th century
1.
a. : an open usually circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing
b. chiefly British : a bowl used especially in cooking
c. : the quantity contained in a basin
2.
a. : a dock built in a tidal river or harbor
b. : an enclosed or partly enclosed water area
3.
a. : a large or small depression in the surface of the land or in the ocean floor
b. : the entire tract of country drained by a river and its tributaries
c. : a great depression in the surface of the lithosphere occupied by an ocean
4. : a broad area of the earth beneath which the strata dip usually from the sides toward the center
• ba·sin·al -s ə n-əl adjective
• ba·sined -s ə nd adjective
• ba·sin·ful -ˌfu̇l noun