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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#m1)

2) A washbasin: a sink in a bathroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#m2)

3) (geography) The area of land drained by a river and its streams: the Amazon basin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#m3)

4) (geography) A bowl-shaped dip in the land or a sheltered area of water, like a harbour basin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x1)
- Wash your hands in the basin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x2)
- The Amazon basin is home to the largest rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x3)
- Gran steamed the pudding in a basin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x4)
- The boats were moored in the harbour basin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x5)
- Fill the basin with warm water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x6)
- Schacabac saw no boy, nor basin, nor water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/5/)
- [Mercury's surface is covered in craters like the Moon's, and the Caloris Basin is about 1,500 kilometres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/12/)
- [The line of high land between two basins is a watershed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/1/)
- [A drainage basin is all the land whose water drains into one river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/8/)
- [And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.688/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.