What's the difference between basin and basis?

Basin


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
  • (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
  • (2) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
  • (3) The first village, Gezirat El-Maabda, has a basin system of irrigation.
  • (4) Since 1975, the annual average thickness in just the central part of the basin had dropped from about 11 feet to 4 feet — a decline of 65%.
  • (5) Activity of the opisthorchiasis focus in the Tobol-Ubagan river basins has increased under the influence of several anthropogenic factors.
  • (6) The Indus water treaty (pdf) was signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan in response to the latter's fear that the location of the basin of the River Indus in India could have adverse effects on agriculture in Pakistan.
  • (7) From these results it is inferred that tubular brush-border damage occurs in inhabitants of the Jinzu River basin.
  • (8) Transplantation of autologous salivary glands to the lacrimal basin has been performed in patients with severe xerophthalmos and with or without severe xerostomia.
  • (9) Half the young people of the Mediterranean basin are reportedly out of work .
  • (10) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
  • (11) Millions of tourists from Northern Europe visit the Mediterranean basin each year.
  • (12) The Nationals also have questions about Greg Hunt’s Department of the Environment retaining responsibility for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder , which manages environmental water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin.
  • (13) In the Congo basin, many disabled people, who are exempt from ferry fares, smuggle goods across the waters dividing the nations' riverine capitals.
  • (14) The annual chest X-ray surveys conducted in Hokkaido during a 5 year period from 1972 to 1976 disclosed that the Furano basin located in a central mountainous district had an extremely high discovery rate of the cases with sarcoidosis.
  • (15) Ribotyping patterns of aeromonads recovered from well 1, detention basin, sand filter, softener, and distribution samples were compared with those of the five clinical isolates.
  • (16) A combined examination revealed Basin erythema in 57.7% of the patients, lupus vulgaris in 29.9% and papulonecrotic tuberculosis of the skin in 12.4%.
  • (17) Standard mortality ratios (SMRs) are mapped on the basis of non-metropolitan primary and secondary employment basins of Quebec.
  • (18) The upper Niger basin, the south-central part of Sierra Leone, and three small foci in the Gambia, Bakoye, and lower Niger river basins were areas with a high risk of onchocercal blindness.
  • (19) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
  • (20) The measurement takes place in 10 mm-basins at the wave-length 540 nm.

Basis


Definition:

  • (n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
  • (n.) The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
  • (n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
  • (n.) The principal component part of a thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
  • (2) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (3) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
  • (4) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
  • (5) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
  • (6) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
  • (7) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
  • (8) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (9) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
  • (10) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
  • (11) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (12) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
  • (13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (14) On the basis of primary sequence homology with other known Pseudomonas lipases, a number of putative active site residues located in conserved areas were found.
  • (15) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
  • (16) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (17) On the basis of mathematical models of the obtained dose-time-effect relationship, the risk of cancer occurrence due to small carcinogen doses is predicted.
  • (18) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
  • (19) In this study we investigated the recovery or regenerative process of nasal mucosa in rabbits after mechanical injury on the basis of ultrastructural as well as functional observations.
  • (20) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.