basin

[US]/ˈbeɪsn/
[UK]/ˈbeɪsn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. basin; bowl; pool; watershed.

Phrases & Collocations

kitchen basin

wash basin

basin for bathing

river basin

tarim basin

lake basin

drainage basin

fault basin

stilling basin

coal basin

a basin of

ocean basin

basin area

harbor basin

aeration basin

settling basin

detention basin

tidal basin

downfaulted basin

great basin

sedimentation basin

structural basin

Example Sentences

the basin is partly let into the wall.

a basin of steaming water.

the basin that receives your blood.

It is moulded into a basin-like form.

The basin favours the development of farming and animal husbandry.

A bowl of noodle and a bowl of puffed ginger, a basin of pollywog and a basin of locust are all seemingly by our side.

From the correlation with foreland basins abroad it is concluded that Sichuan basin resulted from Polydirectional compression stress.

Minhe Basin is a Mesozoic-Cenozoic intermont basin grew on Precambrian metamorphic rock basement in middle Qilian uplift zone.Total thickness of Mesozoic-Cenozoic is about 7000 meters.

My crown, my porphyry-basined waters cool,

Weidongzhuang Formation is of meta-clastics with characteristics of arc-basin clastics.

On the floor of the basins lie deserts, lakes and swamps.

The basin tectonic model: it is intermont basin during late Jurassic to early Cretaceous, developed into faulted-lacustrine basin in Eogene, and evolved into depression in Neogene and Quaternary.

she ran cold water in the basin, laving her face and hands.

The organic source rocks of Paleogene from Huangxian basin are rich in the content of exinite and sapropelinite,especially resinite and alginite.

Dongting basin was shaped not only by tectonic movement but also by potamic and anthropogenic influence.

Clerk: They both sleep one or two people, but the roomette has a toilet and wash basin;

The distribution of petroleum in Africa is mainly in the negative region in the inner platform or in the aggradational basin of shore zone.

The secondary dolomite and paleokarst of the Lower Permian Series in Sichuan Basin is one of the important atectonic reserviors in the basin.

Intermontane basins in relatively stable regions subjected to regional uplift.

In this paper a new idea and research method of kinetic solution for minitype and middletype overlain basins in South China were suggested.

Real-world Examples

There was only one basin for six girls.

Source: Jane Eyre (Abridged Version)

" Hold the basin nearer, " exclaimed Charles.

Source: Madame Bovary (Part One)

You need to scrub the basin harder.

Source: Lai Shixiong Advanced English Vocabulary 3500

Dumbledore approached the basin and Harry followed.

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

But one time there was like, this basin of pure MSG.

Source: Celebrity's Daily Meal Plan (Bilingual Selection)

It could have been the pudding basin for all I care.

Source: Rock documentary

Old elm trees filled the basin, making it shady and cool.

Source: "Christian Science Monitor" Reading Selections

He caught sight of himself in the mirror over the basin.

Source: 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

He added that all the basins seemed to reach about the same height.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

And I'm the largest and deepest ocean basin on the planet Earth.

Source: Children's Encyclopedia Song

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