Definition of Reservoir

1. Noun. A large or extra supply of something. "A reservoir of talent"

Generic synonyms: Supply

2. Noun. Lake used to store water for community use.
Exact synonyms: Artificial Lake, Man-made Lake
Specialized synonyms: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Volta
Group relationships: Water, Water Supply, Water System
Generic synonyms: Lake

3. Noun. Tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil).
Specialized synonyms: Cistern, Sump, Water Tower
Generic synonyms: Storage Tank, Tank

4. Noun. 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"
Exact synonyms: Source
Generic synonyms: Thing

Definition of Reservoir

1. 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.

Definition of Reservoir

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reservoir

1. 1. A place or cavity for storage, for anatomical structures serving as a storage space for fluids. 2. 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. 3. A small intercellular space, often containing esin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. Receiving reservoir, a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. 4. A reservoir host or reservoir of infection, an alternate or passive host or carrier that harbours pathogenic organisms, without injury to itself and serves as a source from which other individuals can be infected. Origin: F. Reservoir, LL. Reservatorium, from server = to reserve (27 Oct 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reservoir

reserve assets
reserve bank
reserve clause
reserve force
reserve fund
reserve margin
Reserve Officers Training Corps
reservice
reserviced
reservices
reservicing
reserving
reservist
reservists
reservoir (current term)
reservoir (current term)
reservoirs
reservoir bag
reservoir host
reservoir of infection
reservoir of spermatozoa
reses
reset
resets
resettable
resetted
resetter
resetters
resetting
resettle

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