Meaning

• A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall

• A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food

• A depression, natural or artificial, containing water

• An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin

• A rock formation scooped out by water erosion

Meaning

• To create a concavity or depression in.

• To serve as or become a basin.

• To shelter or enclose in a basin.