Definition of Basin

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Definition of Basin

Basin

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

The quantity contained in a basin.

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

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Basin Quotations

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Paul Cezanne

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
David Guterson

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
Charles Lyell

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Hudson Stuck

Basin Translations

basin in Afrikaans is bak
basin in Danish is kumme
basin in Dutch is vont, bekken, kom
basin in Finnish is vati
basin in French is bassin, bol, bassine, cuvette
basin in German is Becken, Stromgebiet
basin in Latin is lebes
basin in Portuguese is tejela, bacia

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