Reservoir vs Basin - What's the difference?
reservoir | basin |
As a noun reservoir is reservoir. As a proper noun basin is a cdp in montana.
reservoir English
Noun
( en noun)
A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts.
A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
A supply or source of something.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
, title= In the News
, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
Derived terms
* water reservoir
* receiving reservoir
* oil reservoir
* petroleum reservoir
Related terms
* reserve
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basin English
Noun
( en noun)
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
, magazine=
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.}}
(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
Synonyms
* (bowl) sink
Derived terms
* basin of attraction
* catchment basin
* Chad Basin
* drainage basin
* oceanic basin
* sedimentary basin
* Tarim Basin
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