Definition of Reserve

1. Noun. Formality and propriety of manner.

Exact synonyms: Modesty
Generic synonyms: Correctitude, Properness, Propriety
Specialized synonyms: Demureness

2. Verb. Hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency. "They held back their applause in anticipation"
Generic synonyms: Keep Back, Withhold
Specialized synonyms: Devote
Derivative terms: Reservation

3. Noun. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.
Exact synonyms: Backlog, Stockpile
Generic synonyms: Accumulation
Specialized synonyms: Bank, Fuel Level, Reserve Account, Reserve Fund
Derivative terms: Backlog, Stockpile

4. Verb. Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
Exact synonyms: Allow, Appropriate, Earmark, Set Aside
Generic synonyms: Allot, Assign, Portion
Derivative terms: Allowance, Appropriable, Earmark

5. Noun. An athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced.
Exact synonyms: Second-stringer, Substitute
Group relationships: Bench
Generic synonyms: Athlete, Jock
Specialized synonyms: Bench Warmer, Pinch Hitter
Derivative terms: Substitute, Substitute, Substitute

6. Verb. Obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance. "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Call For, Quest, Request
Specialized synonyms: Book Up
Related verbs: Book, Hold
Derivative terms: Reservation, Reservation

7. Noun. (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions.
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Generic synonyms: Indefinite Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Pulmonary Reserve

8. Verb. Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance. "Please hold a table at Maxim's"
Exact synonyms: Book, Hold
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Call For, Quest, Request
Entails: Procure, Secure
Specialized synonyms: Hold Open, Keep, Keep Open, Save
Derivative terms: Bookable, Booking, Reservation, Reservation

9. Noun. A district that is reserved for particular purpose.

10. Noun. Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency.
Exact synonyms: Military Reserve
Generic synonyms: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Member holonyms: Reservist
Derivative terms: Reservist

11. Noun. The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.
Exact synonyms: Reticence, Taciturnity
Generic synonyms: Uncommunicativeness
Derivative terms: Reticent, Taciturn

Definition of Reserve

1. v. t. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

2. n. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

3. n. That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it;

Definition of Reserve

1. to keep back for future use [v -SERVED, -SERVING, -SERVES]

Medical Definition of Reserve

1. 1. Typically used to describe the amount of a substance which can be extracted from the earth with current technology at current prices. Typically much smaller than resources. 2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. "The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply." (Tillotson) 3. That which is excepted; exception. "Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve." (Rogers) 4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. "My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind." (Prior) "The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme." (Hawthorne) 5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose. 6. A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. 7. Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. Reserve air. Synonym: Reservation, retention, limitation, backwardness, reservedness, coldness, restraint, shyness, coyness, modesty. Origin: F. Reserve. (27 Oct 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reserve

resentive
resentment
resentment
resentments
resents
reserpine
reserpine
reserpines
reservable
reservation
reservation
reservationist
reservationists
reservations
reserve (current term)
reserve (current term)
reserve(a)
reserved
reservedly
reservedness
reservednesses
reserver
reservers
reserves
reserve account
reserve air
reserve assets
reserve bank
reserve clause
reserve force

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