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 basin ['besn.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 盆, 盆地

[医] 第三脑室, 骨盆


  1. He washed his hands in a basin.
    他在盆里洗了手。
  2. He first poured some water in the basin.
    他先在脸盆里倒了一些水。
  3. The basin is made of synthetic resin.
    这个盆是用合成树脂做的。


basin
[ noun ]
  1. a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids

  2. <noun.artifact>
    she mixed the dough in a large basin
  3. the quantity that a basin will hold

  4. <noun.quantity>
    a basinful of water
  5. a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

  6. <noun.object>
    the basin of the Great Salt Lake
  7. the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

  8. <noun.location>
    flood control in the Missouri basin
  9. a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face

  10. <noun.artifact>
    he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face


Basin \Ba"sin\, n. [OF. bacin, F. bassin, LL. bacchinus, fr.
bacca a water vessel, fr. L. bacca berry, in allusion to the
round shape; or perh. fr. Celtic. Cf. {Bac}.]
1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and
for various other uses.

2. The quantity contained in a basin.

3. 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.

4. A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for
ships, a little bay. --Pope

5. (Physical Geog.)
(a) 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.
(b) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or
sloping towards a sea or lake.

6. (Geol.) 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}.

  1. Southern Florida also was cited by Hudlow as a major dry area, and the threat of water supply shortages also covers Boston, New York and the Delaware River basin.
  2. Tabloids splashed pictures of "Goldfish," swimming in a water basin, and its "parents" on their front pages.
  3. The fossils, including a complete skull and 10 pieces of cervical vertebrae, were found in the Junggar basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, it said.
  4. We need foreign investment to speed up activity.' The reality for China is that even if a foreign company strikes it rich immediately, oil would not be flowing from the Tarim basin into the country's pipeline grid much before the end of the century.
  5. They had double the index weighting in continental Europe and triple the weighting in the then fashionable, but subsequently dangerous, Pacific basin markets (excluding Japan).
  6. "America's security and prosperity depend in large measure on continued progress toward democracy and economic development in the Caribbean basin," Bush said in a written statement.
  7. The Northeast has emerged as a major water problem area, with the Delaware River basin hovering near the drought emergency level, the Geological Survey reported.
  8. That was definitely an expensive bucket of rainwater." A five-day heat wave blamed for 15 deaths combined with heavy smog in the Athens basin Thursday to send more than 500 people to hospitals, most with heart and breathing problems.
  9. Regionally, shares of Pacific basin funds advanced 63.81 per cent in the year, lifted by a 145 per cent advance in Hong Kong. Latin American funds, rarely seen until last year, gained in popularity.
  10. A deputy from the Pechora coal basin in the Arctic told the Supreme Soviet that miners around the city of Vorkuta remain on strike, partly because of media "disinformation."
  11. Ethnic strife in the Soviet Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan has also disrupted rail service as far north as the Volga basin, the Izvestia report said.
  12. Our demands are only economical," said Pyotr I. Kungurov, a member of the 26-member regional Strike Committee in the Kuznetsk basin, or Kuzbass.
  13. It is Hong Kong's oldest merchant bank, operates in 15 countries in the Pacific basin, and employs 2,200 people, or nearly as many as Robert Fleming's total UK staff.
  14. The basin has some of the worst air in the country despite auto emissions standards and controls over industrial polluters.
  15. Vargashor is the largest of a dozen mines on strike in the Arctic coal basin.
  16. It's just a whimsical element you're dealing with." A drought warning issued Jan. 16 for 7 million people in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania who depend on the Delaware River basin ended May 12, thanks to the spring rain.
  17. The women and children were told to gather at a shopping center parking lot, and to bring plenty of water along for the 400-mile drive up the Tigris River basin to Baghdad.
  18. He spends 23 hours a day in an 86-square-foot cell equipped with a bed, wash basin, toilet and a table.
  19. This indicated that BHP might join forces with an oil major in a Tarim basin venture. BHP's experiences looking for oil in China had not been encouraging, Mr Loton noted.
  20. The Nile basin touches on nine other countries, reaching as far south as Tanzania and Zaire.
  21. Thousands of miners and their families were said to be meeting in town squares throughout the coal-producing basin to protest harsh living and working conditions.
  22. We gave up huge amounts of our most fertile land for flood protection for the lower basin states," he said. "Now we're being asked to give up recreation for the lower basin navigation.
  23. We gave up huge amounts of our most fertile land for flood protection for the lower basin states," he said. "Now we're being asked to give up recreation for the lower basin navigation.
  24. It adds the issue of private profits to already testy debates about rural vs. urban water rights, transfers of water from one drainage basin to another, conservation and agricultural waste.
  25. Strike organizers say the walkout affected about 200 of the 250 mines in the eastern Ukraine's Donetsk basin, the Soviet Union's largest coal field.
  26. A holding basin adjacent to the wastewater tank contained a black, watery liquid spewing from the tanks and helped curb the blaze, Calhoun said.
  27. Fifty years ago Magadan was little more than a pass-through point for the gold fields and labor camps of the Kolyma River basin.
  28. This is a partly government-funded drive to clean up the watercourses in the Mersey basin.
  29. Apache Corp. said it discovered natural gas in the Ardmore basin of Oklahoma.
  30. But avoid marinas if you are a sailor who prefers to be alone. For the clubby, however, Moriconium Quay, a new development around a yacht basin at Poole, Dorset - which Savills is marketing - could be ideal.
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