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Yes, if previous text has established that the time frame is in the past. If you're writing a caption, it should use the present simple and title-style capitalization and drop the articles: "Girl in Green Jacket Sits on Edge of Empty Basin of 'Girl with a Dolphin' Fountain".Is this correct?
"A girl with a green jacket was sitting on the edge of the empty basin of the 'Girl with a Dolphin' fountain."
I'd call it a fountain, not a pool.
It's called fountain. Learn it!The whole thing is called a fountain, including the sculpture, nozzles, the pumps and the piping. The pool/basin which holds the water is the part [STRIKE]of it which[/STRIKE] the OP was asking about (the round thing containing water).
If I can swim in it, I could call it a pool. If I can't, it's not a pool.What about these?
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If I can swim in it, I could call it a pool. If I can't, it's not a pool.
If it were bigger, it could become a pond, a lake, or a sea.
Basins are less picky when it comes to how big the water container has to be to be called such. The Mediterranean is a pretty big basin, though not a pool.
They're also basins (as I said up-thread). I ate several times at a small restaurant in Châteauneuf-en-Auxois, France, whose owner was a retired architect. He said he'd worked for I. M. Pei and designed the basins at the Louvres pyramids before his retirement. He used the French word bassins to describe them, and I had no trouble understanding it in the context.What about water retaining structures in the large public fountains in oublic spaces and famous historical buildings and monuments such as the Alhambra and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington given above?
What do you call them?
I take a particular interest in this subject because I have been involved in fountain design.