(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.
Watershed
Definition:
(n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
(n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.
(2) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(3) The issue was first raised by BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow and brought to the attention of the then BBC Vision director Jana Bennett – number two to BBC director general Mark Thompson – after the sitcom, which was planned for a post-9pm watershed slot, was moved to pre-watershed.
(4) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(5) But campaign groups are now convinced that they have lost the battle on the pre-watershed ban.
(6) Cerebral watershed infarctions usually occur after a period of acute and severe systemic hypotension resulting in a distinctive clinical picture.
(7) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(8) It marked a watershed in public perceptions of Brown, and represents the biggest unforced political error in the history of New Labour.
(9) Pardew's antics will generate yet more negative headlines for a club never far from controversy for one reason or another, and the manager admits that the episode may well be a personal watershed.
(10) Last month, public discontent spilled over for the first time when Putin was booed during an appearance at a martial arts fight , an event described by analysts as a watershed moment in his rule.
(11) The oxygen extraction fraction rose with the distance from the anterior portion of the circle of Willis, attaining the highest value in the superior parietal and posterior temporo-occipital watershed area.
(12) Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT may be more sensitive than CT in the detection of infarctions in the watershed distribution.
(13) Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged that was a watershed, promising to listen to voters.
(14) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(15) Swine faeces from three pig farms in the La Crosse River watershed near La Crosse, Wisconsin, were sampled for Yersinia enterocolitica; 19 presumptive isolates were recovered and biochemically confirmed as Y. enterocolitica.
(16) If that happens, the Britain that votes to join the anti-Isis alliance will have crossed a post-Iraq watershed.
(17) The lesions were thought to be in the watershed areas of the regional arterial supplies, and the areas were considered to be prone to ischemia.
(18) The position of the watershed zone could be important to explain the visual field defect in anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and glaucoma.
(19) Only a few deep infarctions were watershed infarction possibly.
(20) Watershed cerebral infarcts can now be identified in stroke survivors using CT scanning.