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reservoir
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large or extra supply of something; "a reservoir of talent" lake used to store water for community use [syn: artificial lake ] tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE huge ▪ The huge reservoir so created stretched many miles upstream. ▪ Osaka has already set the example, to provide space for the heavy industries attracted there by the huge reservoir of labour. ▪ To the north ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where anything is kept in store 2 A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply. 3 A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. 4 A supply or source of something.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Receptacle \Re*cep"ta*cle\ (r[-e]*s[e^]p"t[.a]*k'l), n. [F. r['e]ceptacle, L. receptaculum, fr. receptare, v. intens. fr. recipere to receive. See Receive .] That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, ...
Usage examples of reservoir.
She knew that Ambler had told a number of peoplehis ex-wife, his associates, even virtual strangersthat his life goal was not to amass a huge reservoir of money.
After a while I realised that men were trading off upon me, that a steady stream of new men was constantly arriving, presumably to replace the old as their reservoirs grew exhausted.
It was decked out with medical gear, urine and excreta reservoirs, decontamination kits, and testing paraphernalia.
If this went on, humans would eventually drain a substantial proportion of the exergy reservoir of the Galaxy as a whole, before exhausting themselves or falling on each other in war.
Bonus Packs, Russians, the reservoir girl, even my Alpha homies in Iraq.
Two twenty-four-inch cooling mains, now empty, used to bring water up from a reservoir back in the bunker farm to cool the main steam condensers.
From above Marchpane could see the tenders in their helmets and their insulated suits, standing in a line upon the concrete rim of the containment reservoir, raking off the distilled brandy-glass.
Though she was still exhausted from the misfired spell, she knew that she had to find a reservoir of strength or drown.
Hanging a metre off the reservoir bed, motionless, trying to outstare a dolphin.
Along there the Snake River and the Pallisades Reservoir, sparkling blue against the dark pines, were stunningly beautiful.
The making of dams, the private and public provision of water in the underground reservoirs by artesian bores, and the facilities for travelling stock by such ways have all lessened the risks which the pioneer pastoralists ran bravely in the old days.
The generating plant would be between the reservoir and river, the penstocks ending at the plant, where the tailrace tunnels start.
Each one was created on a special platen made of obsidian, filled with oily cotton, fed from a reservoir of defiled holy oil.
Even warm enough, in places, that the polywater turned into its gaseous state, carrying the ancient bacteria aloft on trade winds, into the Jet Stream, and over land -- where it found its way to landlocked lakes, rivers, reservoirs.
At Schofield the MP Company that covered the Post and Wahiawa and the road down under the two columns of tall trees alongside the reservoir, they had men just as big, and just as tough, but Prew knew several of them.