basin

«basin» in Mova's school dictionary: A round bowl for holding liquid or food, especially for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a basin, basins)

meaning for a pupil

1) A round bowl for holding liquid or food, especially for mixing or washing. tree →

2) A washbasin: a sink in a bathroom. tree →

3) (geography) The area of land drained by a river and its streams: the Amazon basin. tree →

4) (geography) A bowl-shaped dip in the land or a sheltered area of water, like a harbour basin. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking, a pudding basin is a deep bowl. In geography lessons, a river basin includes all the land whose water flows into one river. In everyday life, wash your hands in the basin. Phrases: river basin, washbasin, pudding basin.

examples

• Mix the flour and eggs in a large basin. tree →
• Wash your hands in the basin. tree →
• The Amazon basin is home to the largest rainforest. tree →
• Gran steamed the pudding in a basin. tree →
• The boats were moored in the harbour basin. tree →
• Fill the basin with warm water. tree →
• Schacabac saw no boy, nor basin, nor water. tree →

note

Countable. In the US, sink is more common for a bathroom basin. A river basin is also called a drainage basin or catchment.

In the corpora

• A river basin works the same way, only the size of a country.
• Mercury's surface is covered in craters like the Moon's, and the Caloris Basin is about 1,500 kilometres across.
• The line of high land between two basins is a watershed.
• A drainage basin is all the land whose water drains into one river.
• And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «basin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.