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Basin

noun

A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids.

The quantity that a basin will hold. Synonym: basinful.

A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it.

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet. Synonyms: catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed.

A bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face. Synonyms: lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand.

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"Basin" Quotes from Famous Books

... that supplied a basin in the countingroom, held her handkerchief to it, and saturated it with water. Then she tied it across her forehead, letting it hang before her face like a veil. She caught a fold ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... dim light of the jack-o'-lantern grinning in the window, he found the catch of the door, and the two children burst out of the closet. Seizing a bucket of water which stood by the hand-basin in the corner, Dan dashed out of doors, followed by Nancy, whose fear of Indians was now overmastered by fear of fire. If their beautiful new house should be burned! She ran to the well-sweep, and while Dan worked like a demon, stamping on burning ...

— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... of what was being done. By August, 1679, he had built and launched (in spite of extraordinary calamities and misfortunes) on the Upper Niagara River the first sailing boat which ever appeared on the four great upper lakes of the St. Lawrence basin. ...

— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

... would come in through this open space, and the floor of it was generally formed into a square marble basin, to receive the water. This was called the impluvium. Sometimes there was a fountain in the centre of the impluvium, and all around it were the porticos, within and under which were the doors opening into ...

— Rollo in Naples • Jacob Abbott

... mouthfuls of dinner, and off to the theater. The play was "Venice Preserved." I dressed as quick as lightning, and was ready in time. The house was not very good, and I am sure I should have wondered if it had been, when the moon is just rising over the fresh tide that is filling the basin, and a delicious salt breeze blows along the beach, and the stars are lighting their lamps in heaven; and surely nobody but those who cannot help it would be breathing the gas and smoke and vile atmosphere of the playhouse. I played well, and when we ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

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