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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

... to what can and what cannot be safely attempted, by the early efforts, which must of necessity be partly experimental in character. At the very beginning the Government should make clear, beyond shadow of doubt, its intention to pursue this policy on lines of the broadest public interest. No reservoir or canal should ever be built to satisfy selfish personal or local interests; but only in accordance with the advice of trained experts, after long investigation has shown the locality where all the conditions combine to make the work most needed ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... through his brain like a bullet. He is surprised at his own idea, with no conscious sense of having originated it. And here we have a man, with all other brain functions paralyzed, producing this magnificent work. Is it possible that we are indeed but conduit pipes from the infinite reservoir of the unknown? Certainly it is always our best work which leaves the least ...

— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle

... blown down; and then of the grim earnestness of a good man who could never preach on a certain text without getting wet through to the waistcoat with perspiration—to open the flood-gates of this kind of Manx story would be to liberate a reservoir that would hardly know an end, so I ...

— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine

... Siloam was a large cistern, or, reservoir, on the southeast of Jerusalem, outside the wall, where the valley of Gihon and the valley of Kedron come together. To go to this pool, the blind man, with two great blotches of mud on his face, must walk through the streets of the city, out of the gate, and into the ...

— The Wonder Book of Bible Stories • Compiled by Logan Marshall

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