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/rˈɛzəvwˌɑr/ /rˈɛzərvwˌɑr/ Listen

noun

Reservoir n.

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, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

(Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

(Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans.

(Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host.

A large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve.

Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

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Etymology of 'Reservoir'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reservoir" Quotes from Famous Books

... work, make the best one could of it. The largest reservoir of anecdotes was sure to run dry; the deepest vein of original humor to be worked out. I remember hearing of two notorious tellers of stories being pitted against each other, for an evening's amusement, when one was driven as a last resource to recounting that "Mary ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... continuous and forms a channel for the gas. The hydrogen and oxygen, escaping through the upper orifices, flow to the compensator. The apparatus is provided with an emptying cock or a cock for filling with distilled water, coming from a reservoir ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various

... issues: water resource problems (no natural reservoir catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, sea water intrusion to island's largest aquifer, increased salination in the north); water pollution from sewage and industrial wastes; coastal degradation; loss of ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... in their mouths, and people were about to settle down to thinking of the suffrage movement as one of the established institutions of American life. [Footnote: Cf. Inez Haynes Irwin, The Story of the Woman's Party. It is not only a good account of a vital part of a great agitation, but a reservoir of material on successful, non-revolutionary, non-conspiring agitation under modern conditions of public attention, public interest, and ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... to see the reservoir of pictures at M. de Marigny's. They are what are not disposed of in the palaces, though sometimes changed with others. This refuse, which fills many rooms from top to bottom, is composed of the most glorious ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

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