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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
washbasin
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Check that worktops and washbasins are the right height.
▪ Down a dark hall was a washbasin and beyond that a toilet and small kitchen.
▪ I staggered across to the washbasins.
▪ In the kitchen of the future we should find an extra washbasin solely for decontamination.
▪ The £32 million remand prison has 156 single and 72 shared cells, each with its own lavatory and washbasin.
▪ The guard usually sat by the washbasin in the hall, his hat balanced on his knee.
▪ They're shipping out cast iron baths, washbasins and tiles to the Land of the Rising Sun.
▪ To my left as I entered were two washbasins with a single cold-water faucet and a bar of soap on the side.
Wiktionary
washbasin

n. a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, in which one may wash one's hands and face

WordNet
washbasin
  1. n. a bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face; "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face" [syn: basin, washbowl, washstand, lavatory]

  2. a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) [syn: handbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin]

Usage examples of "washbasin".

A handkerchief, a fillet for your hair, a wreath of gold or silver, a breastpin, a mirror, a girdle, a purse, a tassel, a comb, sleeves, gloves, a ring, a compact, a picture, a washbasin, a flag but only as a souvenir.

She was coated with the silky powder of khamseen, but when she put the flashlight on the washbasin and turned the taps she saw, fascinated, that the sand collected in the edges of the water as fast as it ran into the bowl.

If I switched on the taps, I thought, the bath and the washbasin would overflow and help to drown the flames: I pushed the stoppers into the plug-holes and opened all the taps to maximum: and I swept a large bath towel into the toilet bowl and pulled the flush.

The bowl of taters, although almost the size of a washbasin, needed to be refilled twice, the gravy boat three times, but to Eddie the true revelation was the rice.

Even before Maria took her place behind the counter, she had several times offered me an old washbasin as a substitute for the lump of scrap metal with which I had taken to stamping accusingly up and down the more than hundred steps of our stairway.

Floor, walls and ceiling were inceram tile, furniture inceram-formed: toilet, washbasin, bedstands, chests of drawers, two chairs -- all inceram.

Floor, walls and ceiling were inceram tile, furniture inceram-formed: toilet, washbasin, bedstands, chests of drawers, two chairs -- all inceram.

His book fell from his lap to the floor with a sharp report and he staggered to his washbasin.

A built-in bunk, a folding washbasin, a small writing desk and chair, a folding camp stool, a locker, some calibrated repeater-instrument dials above the bunk, and that was it.

Glass shelves on one side of the washbasin supported Hermione's array of lotions and unguents, her shampoos, perfumes, cotton wool buds, tweezers, and electric toothbrush.

Therell be a washbasin and a toilet bowl in any room they assign us because we have status, but if you intend to do any serious showering or bathing, youll have to follow the crowd.

There'll be a washbasin and a toilet bowl in any room they assign us because we have status, but if you intend to do any serious showering or bathing, you'll have to follow the crowd.

Each was equipped with a built-in washbasin and clothes closet and a radiator, and furnished with a double bed and dressing-table of oak veneer.

I spend my days hoping someone will fall in, just so I could rescue them, but the Iron River's so sluggish it'd be as thrilling as fishing kittens out of a washbasin.

She did not deliberately secrete them behind the washbasin in the bathroom or between the sheet and the mattress, or hang them from the picture rail.