Basin vs Laver - What's the difference?
basin | laver |
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
A red alga of the genus Porphyra .
A basin for washing.
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One who laves; a washer.
That which washes or cleanses.
As nouns the difference between basin and laver
is that basin is a bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall while laver is a red alga of the genus porphyra or laver can be a basin for washing.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
* ----laver
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (see below).Noun
Etymology 2
From (etyl) laveoir, from (etyl) lavatorium. Compare (lavatory).Noun
(en noun)- Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell