Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BASIN

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Definitions of BASIN

1. To create a concavity or depression in.
2. To serve as or become a basin.
3. To shelter or enclose in a basin.
4. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
5. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
6. (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
7. (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
8. (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
9. A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana
10. A town in county seat in Big Horn County, Wyoming

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Examples of Using BASIN in a Sentence

• The Alpine arch extends from Nice on the western Mediterranean to Trieste on the Adriatic and Vienna at the beginning of the Pannonian Basin.
• It sits on the Wurm River, a tributary of the Rur, and together with Mönchengladbach, it is the only larger German city in the drainage basin of the Meuse.
• He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin; in the former, his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter, his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.
• Aragonese, which developed in portions of the Ebro basin, can be traced back to the High Middle Ages.
• Consequently, while six countries have a coastline on the sea, its drainage basin includes parts of 24 countries in Europe.
• The northeastern parts reach into the Pannonian basin, while in the south it borders the Adriatic Sea.
• Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons per square kilometer in the Logone River basin to 0.
• Its drainage basin is roughly the size of France and extends into seven states of the United States and one Canadian province.
• Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese cultural sphere.
• Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the country's population.
• The vast, low-lying central area is a plateau-shaped basin sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers.
• The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country.
• Its first fossil was found in the Tugulu Group (Lianmuqin and Shengjinkou Formations) of the Junggar Basin.
• Ecuador encompasses a wide range of natural formations and climates, from the desert-like southern coast to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes mountain range to the plains of the Amazon Basin.
• It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities (Thüringer Städtekette), stretching from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena, to Gera in the east, close to the geographic centre of Germany.
• Goeldi's marmoset, or Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii), is a small New World monkey found on the South American continent, mainly in the upper Amazon basin of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Perú.
• The lakes connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River, and to the Mississippi River basin through the Illinois Waterway.
• It was formed at the end of the last glaciation, as an outflow channel from the Baltic Ice Lake to the Atlantic Ocean and nowadays it has the largest drainage basin in Scandinavia.
• By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.
• Gosford, locally nicknamed 'Gossie', is located in the north-eastern part of the Sydney Basin in the traditional Darkinjung Country.

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