Sonali Bendre

I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.

Indian Actress

James Tupper

I grew up in Nova Scotia, and my uncle lived close to the Bay of Fundy. We would walk across the mud flats out to an island, and then you'd climb a cliff and be in the forest. And if the water came in, the basin would fill up with, like, a 30-foot tide. It was phenomenal.

Canadian Actor

Mark Cavendish

I started getting into decent food after I got a house in Tuscany, near the British cycling academy's training base. For a cyclist, the area is incredible, with the flats of the basin of Florence, the heights of the Apennines and the small climbs around Chianti.

Manx Cyclist

Eric Goode

What you do in Oklahoma with tigers in these roadside zoos would be frowned on if it opened in the L.A. basin or New York. I think it's a lack of education. And people believe we should be able to have a tiger, because this is America - who should stop us?

American Director

Kevin Kelly

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

American Editor

Aleqa Hammond

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

Greenlander Politician

Jose Angel Gurria

Water security is not just for domestic policies. International co-operation is crucial to sustainably manage trans-boundary water bodies and river basins.

Mexican Economist

Richard Kinder

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

American Businessman

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

American Lawyer

Lynn Good

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

American Businesswoman

Often found in homes for practical daily uses, like washing dishes or hands.

Everyday Object

'Basin' can vary in size but is typically larger than a bowl and smaller than a tub.

Size Variation

The word can imply location, such as 'bathroom basin' for washing up.

Location Specific

Refers to a landform, often vast, fed by waterways and may support ecosystems.

Geographical Feature

'Basin' here suggests the river's surrounding land which is shaped by water flow.

Associated With Rivers

Used to describe an area encircled by higher land on several sides.

Surrounded By Land

Signifies a depression or dip in the terrain, not necessarily filled with water.

Lower Ground

Denotes a protected area in a harbor for anchoring ships safely.

Maritime Shelter

'Basin' here can be a man-made port feature, not just a natural harbor.

Not Always Natural

 has realized that we just don't want a big bag of stuff because that's just another bag of stuff in the world and I don't want it and then like one second later this moon comes up and said here's your gift basin we were like God what we went in the room we got to pick it was so exciting and I couldn't believe how

TED2016 in review PIPE...

 one of the great inland seas of the world. But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert. Why is this sea here? The reason it's here is because, on the right-hand side, you see two little rivers kind of coming down through the sand, feeding this basin with water.

Jonathan Foley: The...

 through the heart of the third largest watershed basin in the world, and the only one which is 95 percent intact. And building a pipeline with an industrial highway would change forever this incredible wilderness, which is a true rarity on the planet today.

Garth Lenz: The true...

 taking a closer look truly endearing at this stage of fuzzy chick this one is maybe a month old but underneath a real bird is growing but it takes a while it takes months of shuttling in food from the far reaches of an ocean basin to

Wings of the Albatross PIPE...

 creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange that persists to this day. In fact, today, the interconnected Great Lakes

What’s so great about...

 it was one of the driest years on record pat remembers the morning her deputy broke the bad news when she came in and said we've got problems we had huge problems there had been virtually zip snowpack in the upper basin so

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 These formations quickly revealed traces of centuries-old secrets. Archeologists found buried markings that appear to have been left by raised log cabins, fire pits, and basins that may have collected drinking water.

The secret society of...

 to take out oil or timber. And this has led in Congo basin, and other parts of the world, to what is known as the bush-meat trade. This means that although for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years,

What separates us from...

 the terrain below holds most of the world's mountains entire chains of Peaks that run down the major ocean basins like giant backbones most of the planets volcanoes are in the

Overview PIPE Exploring...

 of living the natural life she should over the next two days all twenty-five orangutangs will be released in this river basin black Mustafa and baby pika