Basin is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASIN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a wide dish, also BASON
• a bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin.
• a wide open container used for preparing food or for holding liquid
• the tract of country drained by a river and its tributaries, or which drains into a lake or sea
• an enclosed area of water where boats can be moored
• a circumscribed rock formation where the strata dip towards the centre.
• round open container
• 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.
• a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
• the quantity that a basin will hold
• a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
• the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
• a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
• a circular or oval valley or natural depression on the earth's surface, especially one containing water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a large bowl

Words related to BASIN

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How to use BASIN in a sentence

• It lay unruffled in the bottom of the basin, reflecting the peaks of the bare red mountains beyond it.
• Andre standing at the edge of the basin, her lips white and parted in fear, one hand pressed against her throat, the other held roughly in the grasp of Monsieur de St.
• On the other hand, from 650 onward the Tibetans gained immensely in power, and pushed from the south into the Tarim basin.
• The Custom House officers have a lodge and warehouse upon it, and there were several ships of very good force and rich in value in the basin of it when I was there.
• From that day, who could tell into what part of the North Atlantic basin the Nautilus would take us? Still with unaccountable speed.
• CHAPTER VIII THE PLOTTERS Riding down the gentle slope of the basin, Alva Dale maintained a sullen silence.
• The edge of the basin was slightly raised, thus making the disk a little higher than the level of the floor.
• It began to seem like home to me when I first looked down into this little basin.
• Then he got up, brushed his clothes, and made Pomp polish his boots, and adjusted his black string tie before a glass over the water-pail and basin.
• The site is one of the most advantageous known for the creation of a flood-catchment basin.
• The brilliant afternoon sun of a typical Canadian Autumn day shone down upon Gaspe basin.
• As a rule, we woke early, because to the muffled and steady splash of the ocean over the sides of the ship there was added a splash issuing from the basin, nearby.
• What a flare and what an effect, when the bluish flames played on the surface of the basin.
• He arrived in May on the coast of Mozambique, having for an object the exploration of the basin of the Zambezi.
• After crossing a small range they came to a basin which seemed to have no outlet, and was very barren.
• We drove to the west side of this basin and camped near the foot of a low mountain.
• As the clock struck six we rode out of the gate of Joppa, and immediately afterwards reached a large well with a marble basin.
• Harmony, as you must see, did not always dwell in Sunlight Basin.
• Helen May did not know what she would have done without that stage driver to bridge the gulf between Sunlight Basin and the world.
• Among the Karens a ring is suspended by a thread over a metal basin.
• The relations of the dead strike the basin, and when he who was dearest to the ghost touches it the spirit twists the thread till it breaks, and the ring falls into the basin.
• Shortly after my return I received orders instructing me to accompany Professor Marsh on a fossil-hunting expedition into the rough lands of the Big Horn Basin.

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