Usually means: Depression collecting water or sediment.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. basin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. basin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. basin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. basin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Basin, basin: Wordnik
  7. basin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Basin, basin: Wiktionary
  9. basin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. basin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. basin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. basin: Dictionary.com
  13. basin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. basin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Basin (disambiguation), Basin (geology), Basin, The Basin (Rottnest Island), The Basin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Basin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. basin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. basin: Rhymezone
  19. basin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. basin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. basin: Free Dictionary
  22. basin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. basin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. basin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. basin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basin: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Basin (disambiguation), basin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Basin (disambiguation), basin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basin: Africa Glossary
  2. BASIN: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basin: Easton Bible
  2. Basin: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. basin: Dictionary of Geology
  3. BASIN: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  4. basin: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Basin: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. Basin, basin: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See basinal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
noun:  (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
noun:  A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
noun:  (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
noun:  (geography) 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.
verb:  To create a concavity or depression in.
verb:  To serve as or become a basin.
verb:  To shelter or enclose in a basin.
noun:  A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana
noun:  A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming

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