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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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"Reservoir" Quotes from Famous Books

... higher than the gallery. The roofs terminated in a point, and resembled a large parasol. The fountains were in the middle; the basins, breast-high, were formed of the shells of two turtles from our reservoir, which were mercilessly sacrificed for the purpose, and furnished our table abundantly for some days. They succeeded the cassowary, which had supplied us very seasonably: its flesh tasted like beef, and ...

— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

... confined to battlefields. At Lagash he carried out great improvements in the interests of agriculture; he constructed a large reservoir and developed the canal system. He also extended and repaired existing temples in his native city and at Erech. Being a patron of the arts, he encouraged sculpture work, and the finest Sumerian ...

— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... wearing itself out the book is creating a public appreciation that makes itself felt in a demand for reprinting, hence worthy books are surer of perpetuation in this swirling current than they were in the old time reservoir. But besides these books whose literary life is continuous, though their paper and binding may wear out, there are other books that vanish utterly. By the time that the material part of them needs renewing, the book itself has done its work. Its value at that moment is not enough, or is ...

— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick

... motor with all its parts in side elevation, the flywheel and head rest being in section. Fig. 2 is a side view, with the air reservoir and distribution valve in section through the line 1-2. Figs. 3 and 4 represent the same apparatus, but without support, as where it is to be used on the table of a sewing machine, with the crank of the motor directly fastened to the flywheel of the sewing machine. Fig. 5 is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various

... had—to say nothing of the prospect of passing the night in this vile hole; and I would willingly have given the tenacious Yankee information concerning the prices of flour and butter in every state of the Union, upon the sole condition that he should afterwards help us out of this reservoir of fever. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various

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