basined
basined adjective: enclosed in a basin. Also the simple past and past participle of basin.
Adjective
basined (not comparable)
- Enclosed in a basin.
- basined rivers1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC
- Having a basin or basins, especially if qualified by the type of basin.
- All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in...1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- While persons at once broad-shouldered and big-bellied, or broad-basined and big-bottomed, or broad-basined and big-bellied, or broad-shouldered and big-bottomed, or big-bosomed and broad-shouldered, or big-bosomed and broad-basined, would on no account, if they were in their right senses, commit...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
Also used as
basined is also the simple past and past participle of basin.
Examples of basined in a sentence
- There was also a large-basined sink with spigots for hot and cold water, a broad mirror, soap, towels, and even a hot-air hand dryer.2006, Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.:
- The molars of Amphitherium have, for a Jurassic mammal, a large talonid, but it is in no way basined.2013, D. M. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters, page 103:
- Attractors, in whatever formation (strange, chaotic, periodic, and deeply basined) are described in structural often spatial forms but they are not reified, static objects.2008, Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly, page 84:
Origin of basined
From basin + -ed.
Questions about basined
- What does basined mean?
- Basined means enclosed in a basin.
- How do you use basined in a sentence?
- There was also a large-basined sink with spigots for hot and cold water, a broad mirror, soap, towels, and even a hot-air hand dryer.
- What part of speech is basined?
- Basined is an adjective.
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