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1. (n.) reservoir
a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water to supply a community or region.
2. reservoir
a receptacle or chamber for holding a liquid or fluid.
3. reservoir
a body of porous, permeable rock in which a pool of oil or gas has accumulated.
4. reservoir
Anat. a cavity or part that holds some fluid or secretion.
5. reservoir
a place where anything is collected or accumulated in great amount.
6. reservoir
a large or extra supply or stock; reserve.
Etymology: (1680–90; < F réservoir=réserv(er) to reserve+-oir -ory2)
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| Definition of 'reservoir' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) reservoir
a large or extra supply of something
"a reservoir of talent"
2. (noun) reservoir, artificial lake, man-made lake
lake used to store water for community use
3. (noun) reservoir
tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
4. (noun) reservoir, source
anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
"an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
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1. (noun) reservoir
a lake that provides houses with a water supply
the county's main reservoir
2. reservoir
a tank, especially in a machine, designed to hold a liquid
Fill the reservoir with fluid.
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| Definition of 'reservoir' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) reservoir
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
2. (noun) reservoir
a small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter
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Sense: a place, usually a man-made lake, where water for drinking etc is stored.
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 Afrikaans: reservoir |
 Arabic: خَزّان، صِهْريج |
 Bulgarian: водохранилище |
 Brazilian: reservatório |
 Czech: rezervoár, nádrž; zásobár |
 German: das Wasserreservoir |
 Danish: reservoir |
 Greek: δεξαμενή |
 Spanish: embalse, depósito |
 Estonian: reservuaar |
 Farsi: آب انبار؛ منبع ۀب |
 Finnish: tekojärvi |
 French: réservoir |
 Hebrew: מַאֲגָר |
 Hindi: जलाशय |
 Croatian: rezervoar |
 Hungarian: gyűjtőmedence |
 Indonesian: waduk |
 Icelandic: vatnsþró |
 Italian: serbatoio, cisterna |
 Japanese: 貯水池 |
 Korean: 유수지; 저수지 |
 Lithuanian: rezervuaras |
 Latvian: rezervuārs |
 Malay: kawasan takungan air |
 Dutch: reservoir |
 Norwegian: magasin, basseng |
 Polish: zbiornik |
 Persian: آب انبار؛ منبع ۀب |
 Pashto: داوبوذخيره داوبوډم ياډب |
 Portuguese: reservatório |
 Romanian: lac de acumulare |
 Russian: водохранилище |
 Slovak: rezervoár |
 Slovenian: zbiralnik |
 Serbian: rezervoar |
 Swedish: vattenreservoar |
 Thai: อ่างเก็บน้ำ |
 Turkish: su deposu, bent |
 Taiwanese: 水庫，蓄水池 |
 Ukrainian: водосховище; водойма |
 Urdu: حوض |
 Vietnamese: hồ nhân tạo |
 Chinese: 水库，蓄水池 |
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