Word Finder - basin

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A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall

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• sink

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

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A depression, natural or artificial, containing water

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

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A rock formation scooped out by water erosion

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To create a concavity or depression in.

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To serve as or become a basin.

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To shelter or enclose in a basin.

She ignored his question and turned away, moving to a small basin of water.

The western Mediterranean is cut off by a bank crossing the narrow strait between Sicily and Cape Bon, usually known as the Adventure Bank, on which the depth is nowhere 200 fathoms. The mean depth of the western basin is estimated at 881 fathoms, and the deepest sounding recorded is 2040 fathoms. In the eastern Mediterranean the mean depth is nearly the same as in the western basin.

It is beautifully situated in the centre of a valley basin on a plateau 3500 ft.

He retrieved her glass from the basin of the sink and poured her more wine.

Evnitzki states that the saltest water of the whole basin occurs in the Aegean Sea.

It was that day his ma and her husband took us up in Governor's Basin for a picnic.

This park features a huge, watery basin that was formed in the ice age.

In the latter years of his reign Harsha's sway over the whole basin of the Ganges from the Himalayas to the Nerbudda was undisputed.

The Silurian system was marked by the retreat of the sea from central Australia; but the sea still covered a band across Victoria, from the coast to the Murray basin, passing to the east of Melbourne.

She pushed herself away from the door and crossed to a small pitcher of water and basin in the corner.

It contains few remains of antiquity, except of the aqueduct and basin, said to have been made by the architect Eupalinus for the tyrant Theagenes.

The naval arsenal is situated on the " north basin " of the Buenos Aires port, and the military port at Bahia Blanca is provided with a dry dock of the largest size, and extensive repair shops.

She and another child were poking around a mine up above Governor's Basin.

Park himself added much to the knowledge of the upper basin of the Senegal.

The southern basin of Chad is described under the Shari, which empties its waters into the lake about the middle of the southern shore, forming a delta of considerable extent.

The only basin of any extent is the Sambhar salt lake, of about 50 m.

This is the Basin Range type of mountain.

Its length is 565 m., of which 192 are on or within the frontier of Portugal, and the area of its basin is about 31,850 sq.

The basin is comparatively narrow, and the Tagus, like the other rivers of the Iberian tableland, generally flows in a rather confined valley, often at the bottom of a rocky gorge below the general level of the adjacent country.

The narrower part of the Tagus basin lies to the south, and the left-hand tributaries which drain it are almost all mere brooks, dry in summer.

In the area enclosed are the Victoria basin, covering 64 acres, the;Alfred basin of 82 acres, a graving dock 529 ft.

There is good anchorage outside the Victoria basin under the lee of the breakwater, and since 1904 the foreshore east of the south pier has been reclaimed and additional wharfage provided.

Vessels of the deepest draught can enter into the Victoria basin, the depth of water at low tide ranging from 24 to 36 ft.

Some Cretaceous or Upper Jurassic rocks occur in the basin of the Fly river.

Most of western British New Guinea consists of recent superficial deposits, in the basin of the Fly river.

Elderly Brandon Westlake, the only single oldie, failed to engage Cynthia's interest in his day's activities, a high country wildflower photo shoot in Governor's Basin.

The Lucky Pup is one of a dozen or so digs scattered around his property up in Governor's Basin.

After what seemed even longer than the Dean's first trip to the mine just two days earlier, they emerged into the basin where the valley floor was a sea of wildflowers.

Its arrival pre-dated theirs, as it would have passed them back in the basin.

The three principal regions for the production of tobacco are the basin of the Garonne (Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Lot and Gironde), the basin of the Isre (Isre and Savoie) and the department of Pas-de-Calais.

The sea extended up the Murray basin into the western plains of New South Wales.

Jack concluded that western Queensland might be a deep artesian basin.

In northern Queensland copper is found throughout the Cloncurry district, in the upper basin of the Star river, and the Herberton district.

Coal of a very fair description was discovered in the basin of the Irwin river, in Western Australia, as far back as the year 1846.

The county is situated mostly in the basin of the Erne, which divides the county into two nearly equal sections.

It extends E northward to the Arctic Basin and southward to the Great Southern Ocean.

The mean depth over this ridge is about 250 fathoms, and the maximum depth nowhere reaches 500 fathoms. The main basin of the Atlantic is thus cut off from the Arctic basin, with which the area north of the ridge has complete deep-water communication.

The foundations of our knowledge of the relief of the Atlantic basin may be said to have been laid by the work of H.M.S.

The question of the origin of the Atlantic basin, like that of the other great divisions of the hydrosphere, is still unsettled.

Neumayr, while they regard the basin of the Pacific as of great antiquity, believe the Atlantic to date only from the Mesozoic age.

North of the North Atlantic maximum the waters become steadily fresher as latitude increases until the channels opening into the Arctic basin are reached.

The first passes northwards, most of it between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands, to the coast of Norway, and so on to the Arctic basin, which, as Nansen has shown, it fills to a great depth.

Its basin forms the province of Kabul, which includes all northern Afghanistan between the Hindu Kush and the Safed Koh ranges.

The greater part of the colony lies west and north of the chain and belongs to the basin of the Volta.

Before that time there was no basin or wet-dock, though the river Medway to some extent answered the same purpose, but a portion of the adjoining salt-marshes was then taken in, and three basins have been constructed, communicating with each other by means of large locks, so that ships can pass from the bend of the Medway at Gillingham to that at Upnor.

Four graving docks were also formed, opening out of the first (Upnor) basin.

The east and north parts lie in the basin of the river Fulda, which near the north-eastern boundary joins with the Werra to form the Weser.

The Main forms part of the southern boundary, and the Rhine the south-western; the western part of the province lies mostly in the basin of the Lahn, a tributary of the Rhine.

By far the larger portion of Northern Italy is occupied by the basin of the Po, which comprises the whole of the broad plain extending from the foot of the Apennines to that of the Alps, together with the valleys and slopes on both sides of it.

There is no other instance in Europe of a basin of similar extent equally clearly characterized—the perfectly level character of the plain being as striking as the boldness with which the lower slopes of the mountain ranges begin to rise on each side of it.