Толковый словарь английского языка - basin
Basin
basin
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French bacin, from Late Latin bacchinon Date: 13th century 1. an open usually circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing, a bowl used especially in cooking, the quantity contained in a ~, 2. a dock built in a tidal river or harbor, an enclosed or partly enclosed water area, 3. a large or small depression in the surface of the land or in the ocean floor, the entire tract of country drained by a river and its tributaries, a great depression in the surface of the lithosphere occupied by an ocean, a broad area of the earth beneath which the strata dip usually from the sides toward the center, ~al adjective ~ed adjective ~ful noun
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n. 1 a wide shallow open container, esp. a fixed one for holding water. 2 a hollow rounded depression. 3 any sheltered area of water where boats can moor safely. 4 a round valley. 5 an area drained by rivers and tributaries. 6 Geol. a a rock formation where the strata dip towards the centre. b an accumulation of rock strata formed in this dip as a result of subsidence and sedimentation. Derivatives basinful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: ME f. OF bacin f. med.L ba(s)cinus, perh. f. Gaulish ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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