basin
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈbeɪsən/
- The Amazon basin is a vast area where the river collects water from surrounding land.
- drainage basin
- river basin
- lake basin
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- Cemetery in northwestern China's Tarrin Basin.
- It rains, the water trickles down, they're flooding zones of the surface, either flooding fields or putting in place basins that can capture stormwater.
- And how these population level cultures are then shared between these populations across an entire ocean basin.
- Emil the they, they use English, of course, but also you have to remember all the languages spoken across the Atlantic basin.
- But you know, there was places, there was places like they call it Gardener's Basin now.
- With the Sofia basin thereby secured, Samuel's domains were cut in two, leaving each segment more vulnerable.
- I had a probably about eleven of those Nuggets while I was driving across the a Chafalaya Basin, and about nine of those bitches, they bit right back.
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Establishing a coordinated regional action in the Euphrates-Tigris basin still presents a great challenge.
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The Euphrates and Tigris River basin accounts for 28.5 percent of the surface water supply in Turkey.
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Amazon basin in the north, once an island sea...
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Nearly 100 million people within these basin countries live on less than a dollar a day.
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But it is also quite common in the Mediterranean basin like Southern Europe, Spain.
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You see what's happening at the Amazon basin with the forest fires there in recent times.
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So here's the Los Angeles basin surrounded by mountains.
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Cold polar water is filling up the deep ocean basins all around the world.
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Also relevant to the argument is the fact that the Nile basin countries have predominantly agricultural economies.
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The poster child I would say is the Murray Darling Basin in in Australia where they have completely redone how they allocate water.
Synonyms
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An area of land where rain flows into one river
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A low area of land that forms a hollow
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Land where a river and its streams send water to the same place
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An area of land that collects rain and sends water into a river or reservoir
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An area of land where rain and water flow into the same river, lake, or reservoir
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A large area of land where all the rain and rivers flow into the same river or sea
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Area of land that sends water into a river or lake
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A low hollow in the ground that often holds water
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An area of land where all rain flows into a river, lake or reservoir
Compounds
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6.0
A pool near the sea that fills with water at high tide used for docks or flood control
- Specialized
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A large area of land where all the rain and rivers flow into the same river or sea
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A pond made by people that holds rainwater to prevent flooding and keep the water clean
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An area of land where all rain flows into a river, lake or reservoir
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A built area that holds rainwater from storms briefly and releases it slowly to reduce flooding downstream
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Etymology
The word basin comes from an Old French word bacin meaning 'bowl'. Think of the land as a large bowl that holds rain and rivers, so a river basin is the area where water collects and then drains into a river, lake, or sea.