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Synonyms for basin
Synonyms for basin: lavatory and watershed. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for basin
- lavatorynoun, in the sense "a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe"
- watershednoun, in the sense "the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries"
All two are filed under basin's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe
He ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face.
The true synonym
lavatory
Same sentence, swapped: He ran some water in the lavatory and splashed it on his face.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where basin stands in the sentence above.
- watershed
- flats
- mare
the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries
Flood control in the Missouri basin.
The true synonym
watershed
Same sentence, swapped: Flood control in the Missouri watershed.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where basin stands in the sentence above.
- lavatory
- surroundings
- sphere
Where basin turns up in the game
basin is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where basin is the trap
- watershednoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is landmark, in the sense "an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend", and basin is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play basin
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so basin reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from objects at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
basin is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.