different between basin vs hollow
basin
English
Alternative forms
- bason (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English basin, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: b?'s?n, IPA(key): /?be?s?n/
- Rhymes: -e?s?n
Noun
basin (plural basins)
- a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
- First, as you know, my house within the city
- Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
- Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, John 13:5,[2]
- After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
- 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, Letter V,[3]
- What then, you will say, must a man sit with his chops and fingers up to the ears and knuckles in grease? No; let those who cannot eat without defiling themselves, step into another room, provided with basons and towels: but I think it would be better to institute schools, where youth may learn to eat their victuals, without daubing themselves, or giving offence to the eyes of one another.
- 1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 1,[4]
- Everybody had washed before going to bed, apparently, and the bowls were ringed with a dark sediment which the hard, alkaline water had not dissolved. Shutting the door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey’s tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.
- Synonym: sink
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
- (obsolete) a shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 15,[5]
- […] Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […]
- 1826, George Wood, The Subaltern Officer: A Narrative, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Chapter 7, p. 109,[6]
- They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […]
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 2,[7]
- He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ¶ ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’
- 1893, Gilbert Parker, “The March of the White Guard,” in Tavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27,[8]
- Gaspé Toujours is drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.
- 1915, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan, A Woman’s Diary of the War, New York: Dutton, 1916, Chapter 7, p. 99,[9]
- A steaming basin of coffee or soup revived them greatly, and even having to decide which of these refreshments they would have, and helping themselves to bread, pulled them together a little.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 15,[5]
- a depression, natural or artificial, containing water
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 31,[10]
- This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]
- 1891, Frederic Farrar, Darkness at Dawn, Chapter 6,[11]
- The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins.
- 1926, D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent, Chapter 2,[12]
- There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 31,[10]
- (geography) an area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin
- (geography) a rock formation scooped out by water erosion
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- basin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- basin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- basin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Basin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
basin (third-person singular simple present basins, present participle (US) basining or basinning, simple past and past participle (US) basined or basinned)
- To create a concavity or depression in.
- To serve as or become a basin.
- To shelter or enclose in a basin.
Anagrams
- Bains, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, Sabin, bains, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba, sabin
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ba.zin/
Verb
basin
- third-person plural present subjunctive form of basar
- third-person plural imperative form of basar
Cebuano
Adverb
basin
- maybe
French
Etymology
From Old French bombasin, ultimately from Medieval Latin bombyx, bambax, from Ancient Greek ?????? (pámbax, “cotton”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.z??/
Noun
basin m (plural basins)
- (textiles, historical) bombasine
Further reading
- “basin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- bains
Hiligaynon
Noun
basín
- toilet
Keley-I Kallahan
Noun
basin
- (anatomy) kidney
Volapük
Noun
basin (nominative plural basins)
- basin
- water basin
Declension
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hollow
English
Alternative forms
- hallow
- holler (nonstandard: dialectal, especially Southern US)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?l.??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?.lo?/
- (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA(key): /h?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Etymology 1
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holw?, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *halhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?el?wos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Perhaps related to hole.
Noun
hollow (plural hollows)
- A small valley between mountains.
- c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter
- Forests grew upon the barren hollows.
- c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
- (US) A sunken area.
Translations
Verb
hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)
- (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
Etymology 2
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holu?, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Adjective
hollow (comparative hollower, superlative hollowest)
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey
- Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:
- 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- a hollow victory
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- a hollow promise
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
- c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
Derived terms
- hollow leg
Translations
Adverb
hollow (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
Etymology 3
Compare holler.
Verb
hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)
- To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
- 1814. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
- He has hollowed the hounds.
- 1814. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
Interjection
hollow
- Alternative form of hollo
References
- hollow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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