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/rˈɛzəvwˌɑr/ /rˈɛzərvwˌɑr/ Listen

Reservoir

noun

A large or extra supply of something.

Lake used to store water for community use. Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake.

Tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil).

Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies. Synonym: source.

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... the trees, some two hundred yards from the spot. At about a like distance below, it discharges itself into the stagnant reservoir of the swamp. ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... by its great leaps and spurts that some other reservoir had broken loose, and that before it found the level it was seeking the whole mine must be flooded and drowned. There was no more thought of saving property, but each man became intent only on escaping with his ...

— Derrick Sterling - A Story of the Mines • Kirk Munroe

... serious I want to speak to you about," he began, as they sat in the old-fashioned parlour. "You know what the storm has done to the city water. It has washed all the summer's accumulation of filth down into the streams that feed the reservoir, and since the filtering plant is out of commission the water has been simply abominable. The people are complaining louder than ever. Blake and the rest of his crew are telling the public that this water is a sample of what everything will be like if I'm elected. It's hurting me, and hurting ...

— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott

... if the main pump is not working away down deep in the moist earth the kernel will not fill well and may perish entirely. For this reason no fibre of the tap root should be disturbed, but rather encouraged by a well auger hole, bored before the tree is planted, down to the reservoir of moisture that will not ...

— Walnut Growing in Oregon • Various

... at Versailles about 7 o'clock that evening and settled ourselves in the Hotel Reservoir, happy to find there two or three American families, with whom, of course, we quickly made acquaintance. This American circle was enlarged a few days later by the arrival of General Wm. B. Hazen, of our army, General Ambrose E. Burnside, and Mr. Paul Forbes. Burnside and Forbes were hot ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 6 • P. H. Sheridan

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