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say it: BAY-suhn
basin is a noun meaning "a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids". It is pronounced /ˈbeɪsən/ — BAY-suhn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
“she mixed the dough in a large basin”
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”
the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
“flood control in the Missouri basin”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for basin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.