reservoir

Speech parts

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

source lake bank basin reserve supply stock pool fund repository hoard cistern water supply stockpile storehouse
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Antonyms

lack spend consume tributary dissipate nothingness
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Hypernyms

lake supply thing tank Storage tank

Hyponyms

cistern sump water tower

Phrases with the word

water reservoir reservoir pen oil reservoir detention reservoir engine's oil reservoir retarding reservoir

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

reservice reservism reservist reservoir catchment reservoir computing reservoir of seed