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reservoir

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1. reservoir - Noun

2. reservoir - Verb

Meaning

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.

A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

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an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival Source: Internet

a reservoir of talent Source: Internet

1930s Fresh Water Project In the early 1930s there was a project to dam off a third of the lake with dikes on the east side north of Salt Lake City to make a fresh water reservoir for drinking and irrigation. Source: Internet

A artist's rendering of the off-stream reservoir project at Springbank Road. Source: Internet

According to a delayed report reaching here, the girl, K. Mounika, accidentally fell into the swollen canal that takes Krishna water from Somasila reservoir on Thursday. Source: Internet

Accompanying the reservoir species are pathogens that have the ability to find new hosts in previously unexposed regions. Source: Internet

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