Basin

['beɪs(ə)n] or ['besn]

解释:

(noun.) a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; 'she mixed the dough in a large basin'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the quantity that a basin will hold; 'a basinful of water'.

录入:昆西--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.

(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

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解释:

n. a wide open vessel or dish: any hollow place containing water as a dock: the area drained by a river and its tributaries.

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