Basin vs Embayment - What's the difference?
basin | embayment |
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
A bay.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.121:
the process by which a bay is formed
As a proper noun basin
is a cdp in montana.As a noun embayment is
a bay.basin
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
Synonyms
* (bowl) sinkDerived terms
* basin of attraction * catchment basin * Chad Basin * drainage basin * oceanic basin * sedimentary basin * Tarim BasinExternal links
* *See also
* (wikipedia "basin") *Anagrams
* ----embayment
English
Noun
(en noun)- The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.