basin
IPA: bˈeɪsʌn
noun
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana
- A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming
verb
- To create a concavity or depression in.
- To serve as or become a basin.
- To shelter or enclose in a basin.
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Examples of "basin" in Sentences
- The area is in the Amazon Basin.
- The climate of the basin is hot and arid.
- The municipality is in the basin of the Sonora River.
- Cretaceous sedimentation continued in the Perth Basin.
- The drainage basin to the east is the Powder River basin.
- Meanwhile the basin marks the location of the former lake.
- The depth of the first basin is, the deepest part of the lake.
- The basin itself is a large expanse of water adjacent to the canal.
- The lake supports landlocked salmon and lake trout in the middle basin.
- The World Heritage Site names the basin not the lake as the title of the site.
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