noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pedestal basin British English (= a bowl to wash your hands in, supported by a pedestal )
pudding basin
river basin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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It is observed that the maria and the large unfilled basins tend to lie in the equatorial regions of the Moon.
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It includes three large water basins which separate the main dockyard from St. Mary's Island.
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Between these two ranges a large structural basin was created which now forms the high plateau of the Altiplano.
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A large jug and basin , charmingly ornamented with a design of blue ribbon, was its centre-piece.
low
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Midvale veterans would recall frantically pumping out buildings frequently flooded in the low basin at the foot of Germantown.
sedimentary
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Smaller-scale inset maps will provide information on metamorphic grade of orogenic terrains and the structure of Phanerozoic sedimentary basins .
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There are even more examples of very thin units that persist over fantastically large areas in particular sedimentary basins .
small
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The river poured into a small basin under the shopping arcade.
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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There was a small basin filled with water at one end of the mattress and I was told to gaze into it.
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Barely half-fill the two small basins with lemon cake mixture and place the remainder in the large bowl.
upper
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As far as the upper basin was concerned, it was time for some equity.
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Now the upper basin would get its share.
■ NOUN
amazon
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The Amazon basin breeds great passions such as Roberto's.
hand
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The icebox is refrigerated and the sinks and wash hand basins are served with pressure hot and cold fresh water.
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Recently, a small crack appeared in our pedestal hand basin in the bathroom.
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I went to rinse out a towel in the hand basin .
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Suite comprising panelled bath with matching wash hand basin .
mare
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Basalts are the dark lava rocks that fill mare basins .
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The mare basins have dark, rather smooth floors that lie well below the altitude of the highlands.
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When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before.
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The individual mare basins differ significantly in composition.
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However, it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring.
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Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
ocean
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The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins .
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We may therefore take 200 million years as some sort of an upper limit to the age of an ocean basin .
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These sea-level fluctuations must therefore have been produced by changes in the cubic capacity of the ocean basins .
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Although the surface of the ocean basins is relatively uniform it is punctuated in places by volcanoes.
pudding
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Ancient women sat in darkened eighteenth- and nineteenth-century doorways, heads covered in kerchiefs or round-brimmed hats like up-ended pudding basins .
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The plump body of the clown is made from partly-filled pudding basins to give the shallow domes required.
river
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A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
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In the early 1940s, the Bureau devised the plan of considering an entire river basin as an integrated project.
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The results from the model can be used to answer questions relating to the long-term behaviour of the river basin .
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Another use of the simulation model might be to assess the effect of increasing the urban area lying within a river basin .
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The river basin is a well-defined spatial unit that is of great interest to hydrologists, geomorphologists and geographers.
wash
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The wash basin was brought, with its tea-pot-like jug.
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I replaced each plug - in the wash basin , the bath, the sink.
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Separated from the main living area are a toilet, shower, and wash basin .
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Just the beds, wash basin , little cupboard.
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The baths, kitchen sink and children's wash basin have conventionally sized traps and wastes.
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We were given a room with a wash basin and which had a shower next door.
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I fetch a handful of paper towels from beside the wash basin , walking on tiptoe to avoid bloody footprints.
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Even to remove an item from the bathroom cupboard to the wash basin or lavatory required authority.
■ VERB
fill
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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I turned on the spigot at the side of the house and filled up his plastic basin .
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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She sat outside the tarpaulin, rubbed her hair with ghee, then filled a basin with water and a little buttermilk.
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The lava not only filled the basins , it also covered up any old craters that had been formed in the area.
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Basalts are the dark lava rocks that fill mare basins .
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She filled the basin in the downstairs bathroom and bowing her head plunged the heavy dark mass into the hot water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Amazon Basin
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Water splashed in the basin of the fountain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arabella's toothbrush was still in the mug above the basin .
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It was a naturally sheltered basin , a trick of the undulating meadows along the Comer.
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Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin , and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.
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The Amazon basin breeds great passions such as Roberto's.
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The results from the model can be used to answer questions relating to the long-term behaviour of the river basin .
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Turn the pudding into the basin .