Basin

[ba·sin]

A basin is a container that holds water and is used for washing, but you probably just call it your bathroom sink.

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

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a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin"

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a bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face; "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face"

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the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; "flood control in the Missouri basin"

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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"

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the quantity that a basin will hold; "a basinful of water"

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

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The quantity contained in a basin.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Basin

Ba"sin , n. [OF. bacin, F. bassin, LL. bacchinus, fr. bacca a water vessel, fr. L. bacca berry, in allusion to the round shape; or perh. fr. Celtic. Cf. Bac.] 1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. 2. The quantity contained in a basin. 3. 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. 4. A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay. 5. (Physical Geog.) (a) 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. (b) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake. 6. (Geol.) 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.

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

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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

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