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What is a basin?

What is a basin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
  2. (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
  3. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
  4. (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
  5. (geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
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The department belongs to the Seine basin, and is watered chiefly by the Seine and the Aube.
This basin was in the center of the atrium, the most important room in the house.
It has been suggested that they emigrated from the south, possibly from the Amur basin.
Outside of this basin the square was paved with asphaltum, and was as hard and smooth as a floor.
Weimer dumped ham and onions into an agateware basin, and set it on the table.
It was the duplicating lines of the departing sun, upon the castellated rocks, as they pierced between the apexes and the basin.

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