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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reservoir \Res"er*voir`\ (r[e^]z"[~e]r*vw[^o]r`; 277), n. [F.
r['e]servoir, fr LL reservatorium See {Reservatory}.]
1. 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
2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing
resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
{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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reservoir
n 1: a large or extra supply of something: "a reservoir of
talent"
2: a lake used to store water for community use [syn: {artificial
lake}]
3: a tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or
oil)
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