| 单词 | basin |
| 释义 | basin (once / 399 pages) 1n 2n A basin is a container that holds water and is used for washing, but you probably just call it your bathroom sink. You can think of basinas something shaped like a bowl. If you're going for an old-fashioned ring, say "wash basin." If you’re in England, you might use a basin for cooking. The word basin also has various geological senses, particularly a depression in the ground or ocean floor. A basin is also the spot where a river drains — like the famed Mississippi River Basin. That’s one big bowl! WORD FAMILYbasin: basinful, basins+/basinful: basinfuls USAGE EXAMPLESThe herd typically summers northwest of Meeteetse and migrates into the Bighorn Basin in winter. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Much of the sand is used for construction in Shanghai, about 400 miles east, and other Chinese cities along the lower Yangtze River basin. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) They are expanding reserves with acreage purchases, particularly in prolific fields such as the Permian Basin in Texas. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1n a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids she mixed the dough in a large basin Hypo|Hyper aspersorium the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry, fontbowl for baptismal water bideta basin for washing genitals and anal area birdbathan ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in emesis basina basin used by bedridden patients for vomiting laver(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions stoop, stoupbasin for holy water handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowla basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) vessel an object used as a container (especially for liquids) 2n the quantity that a basin will hold Syn|Hyper basinful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 3n a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face 2he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face Syn|Hyper lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand sink plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe 1n 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 Hypo|Hyper cirque, corrie, cwm a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake saltpana shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake tidal basina basin that is full of water at high tide depression, natural depression a sunken or depressed geological formation 2n the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet flood control in the Missouri basin Syn|Hypo|Hyper catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed detention basin a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream retention basina storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region a demarcated area of the Earth |
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