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basin

A container that is wider than it is deep. Anything that looks like a container. A low, wide place on the earth. The people living in the Amazon basin depend on the river.

basin

a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids she mixed the dough in a large basin 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 (= basinful) the quantity that a basin will hold a basinful of water 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 a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face

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Just now the spaceship has reached the launch pad because the spaceship is built too light to stand freely, it's submerged in a water-basin in which it floats upright.
Watch the basin.
They need 10,000 blacks in the Mississippi basin.
Oh, I'll want the basin and some hot water, please.
In that basin.
Frenchy, bring that basin over here.
Fetch a basin and a kettle of water.
He's going to have a basin of beautiful, strong broth, sir.
Say, while I was south, did any settlers get in from the north basin?
There are almost 1 00 dead settlers in the basin, scalped by this cowardly criminal.
There's a basin on the bench and a towel on the jug, and soap.
The Rio Negro basin.
They must be after those ships lying in the inner basin.
We'll follow that through the lock into the basin.
Through long daily marches we approach the river basin of the Brahmaputra, from which once originated the culture of God's country.
Ah, Felix, once the band has taken its position in front of the water basin and before they start the Royal hymn, you'll let them sound two trumpet fanfares. That'll be the signal to me that my escort squadron is ready.
Antelope are running pretty heavy over in Fremont Basin.
It was a sort of labyrinth, with two road workers digging a rectangular basin.
In Gigond's garden, there is a rectangular basin.
It is regrettable that the best math student, due to his father's profession, and his basin, benefits from a certain familiarity with the problem.
There are almost 100 dead settlers in the basin. scalped by this cowardly criminal.
There's another one over by the wash basin taking a shampoo!
The font was preserved, but a basin of pewter or brass was placed on top, and from then on, children were baptised as they are today.
These mighty waters, source of enormous energy, now flow via man-made canals to the huge new basin.
What are you basin' it on?
Pour the boiling water in the basin and bring it here.
With a friend over in the yacht basin.
Mind if I piss in the basin?
She caught me peeing in the wash basin.
He'd dragged himself and collapsed on the basin breaking it in his fall.
I washed out the basin so you could pretend that I'd never been here if you want.
Use my basin.
We'll put a basin under.
With time I could install a Finnish basin in your bathroom.

News and current affairs

Although no one knows precisely what might destabilize the Wilkes Basin, we can be fairly certain that further global warming, caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, will increase the risk.
The stronger provisions of previous trade agreements, such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), have been dumped.
Europeans subdued Amerindian populations and also brought in massive numbers of slaves from Africa, especially to the Caribbean basin and Brazil.
The outliers were Venezuela, despite high oil prices, and the Caribbean Basin: Mexico, Central America, and the islands.
Later visits will be either to South America, or to Mexico and the Caribbean Basin.
As recently as WWII, armies fought for control of the Ruhr Basin.
On the economic front, Haiti can become a profitable exporter of tropical crops such as groundnuts, mangos, cut flowers, string beans, and bamboo - a source of progress among Haiti's Caribbean-basin neighbors.
But there were as many Basin Street Blues as there were performances.
The smaller states could not do Keynesianism in a hand basin.
But China is now pursuing major inter-basin and inter-river water transfer projects on the Tibetan plateau, which threatens to diminish international-river flows into India and other co-riparian states.
Before such hydro-engineering projects sow the seeds of water conflict, China ought to build institutionalized, cooperative river-basin arrangements with downstream states.
The only rivers on which no hydro-engineering works have been undertaken so far are the Indus, whose basin falls mostly in India and Pakistan, and the Salween, which flows into Burma and Thailand.
Australia, too, is grappling with serious droughts in the agricultural heartland of the Murray-Darling River basin.
The Mediterranean Basin, including Southern Europe and North Africa is also likely to experience serious drying as a result of climate change.
Large tracts of boreal forest across North America and Eurasia have only a handful of tree species, while the Amazon basin may house 16,000.
Indeed, having its cake and eating it, China is a dialogue partner but not a member of the Mekong River Commission, underscoring its intent not to abide by the Mekong basin community's rules or take on any legal obligations.
Worse, while promoting multilateralism on the world stage, China has given the cold shoulder to multilateral cooperation among river-basin states.
Computer models suggest that global warming may well be a factor in the increased frequency and severity of El Nino phenomena in the past 20 years, and thus also perhaps in the intensification of hurricanes in the Caribbean Basin.

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