basin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bā'sən
ipa: /ˈbeɪs(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪsən
homophone: besan
Forms: form: basins
form: basining
form: basinning
form: basined
form: basined
form: basinned
form: basinned
form: bason
Etymology: From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
Senses: examples: text: Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.
ref: 1925 June, Reginald A. Daly, “The Geology of Ascension Island”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 60, number 1:
text: Basining is the process that gives the faces of the dies their radius, or concavity. Depending on the production method, the planchet metal flows either toward or away from the center of the dies. The minting facilities "basined" the dies after they were delivered from the Philadelphia Mint's Engraving Department.
ref: 2003, The Numismatist - Volume 116, Issues 7-12, page 21:
text: Of course, this is exactly what did happen—the antiquated practice of basining the dies was cast aside for the Lincoln Cent.
ref: 2005, David W. Lange, The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents, page 8:
text: Scandinavia was basined under the load of the last or so-called Würm ice-cap.
ref: 2013, Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove, Symphony of the Earth, page 47:
glosses: To create a concavity or depression in.
examples: text: To what degree this stress field formed in response to eastward movement of the African plate, to northward movement of the African plate relative to Europe, to basinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.
ref: 1976, Günther Kunkel, Monographiae Biologicae - Volume 30, page 77:
text: The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapid basining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington.
ref: 1992, John H. Bush, W. Patrick Seward, Geologic field guide to the Columbia River, page 9:
text: Walls basined at a ca. 45° angle on the southwest side, but on the west and north there was little basining, with the floor sloping gently up to the original ground surface.
ref: 2009, Richard K. Talbot, Lane D. Richens, Shifting Sands: The Archaeology of Sand Hollow, page 90:
text: Deformation of the rocks involved in anticline formation increased as deformation of the rocks involved in basining decreased, and the less intense structures of the norfold facies developed in both regions.
ref: 2012, E. Hansen, Strain Facies, page 133:
glosses: To serve as or become a basin.
examples: text: A moan as of distant wind or thunder portended something at hand, the approach of which, basinned as we were among high broken ridges, patchy-scrubbed heights, and penned in by a maze of steep-sided gullies or gorges — we had no chance of observing, until it cam down in hurricane strength.
ref: 1888, Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland:
text: A row of trees was basined in the latter part of April, and by the latter part of July, a little over three months, there was a remarkable improvement in the appearance of the basined row compared with the check trees.
ref: 1920, Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 16:
text: Caesar's subjects bathed in Caesar's blood basinned in the purple pool of Calpurnia's dream; my sister slept in an ogre's thought and woke up on the hook of a cannibal finger.
ref: 1957, Quest - Volumes 13-19, page 28:
text: They took a narrow path through the snow, up the hill which basined the village, and on to a plateau, a stretch of sparsely treed land.
ref: 2007, The Legal Studies Forum - Volume 31, page 1103:
text: Well back under this natural shelter, basined in the hollowed rock, a blessed pool of fair water lay unwrinkled by even a flutter of breeze.
ref: 2012, Charles King, An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier, page 173:
glosses: To shelter or enclose in a basin.