Lexic.us

Definition of Reserve

1. Noun. Formality and propriety of manner.

2. Verb. Hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency. "They held back their applause in anticipation"

3. Noun. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.

4. Verb. Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

5. Noun. An athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced.

6. Verb. Obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance. "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"

7. Noun. (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions.

8. Verb. Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance. "Please hold a table at Maxim's"

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.

11. Noun. The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.

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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