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RESERVOIR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("reservoir" is a kind of...):
storage tank; tank (a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reservoir"):
cistern (an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater)
sump (an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine)
water tower (a large reservoir for water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lake used to store water for community use
Synonyms:
artificial lake; man-made lake; reservoir
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("reservoir" is a kind of...):
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Instance hyponyms:
Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area)
Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)
Lake Volta (the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes)
Holonyms ("reservoir" is a part of...):
water; water supply; water system (a facility that provides a source of water)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
Example:
an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
Synonyms:
reservoir; source
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("reservoir" is a kind of...):
thing (a separate and self-contained entity)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A large or extra supply of something
Example:
a reservoir of talent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("reservoir" is a kind of...):
supply (an amount of something available for use)
Context examples:
M. simiae is found primarily in the southwestern United States, Israel and Cuba, with tap water as its suspected reservoir.
(Mycobacterium simiae, NCI Thesaurus)
A large receptacle used for holding, transporting, or storing liquids or gases, and often referred to as a reservoir.
(Packaging Tank, NCI Thesaurus)
It is primarily created by photosynthesis and represents a long-term storage reservoir for atmospheric CO2, a potent greenhouse gas.
(Ancient molecules from the sea likely burst into the air from ocean waves, National Science Foundation)
The distensible sac-like organ that functions as a reservoir of urine, collecting from the kidneys and eliminating via the urethra.
(Bladder, NCI Thesaurus)
A pump system with two enclosed reservoirs, designed to deliver various concentrations of intravenous contrast media.
(Dual Chamber Power Injector, NCI Thesaurus)
Lambart visualizes the mantle as connected reservoirs, like dots and lines on a canvas.
(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)
A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.
(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)
There is one big difference, though: On Earth such rivers, lakes and seas are filled with water, while on Titan it is primarily methane and ethane that flows through these liquid reservoirs.
(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)
If confirmed, this potential reservoir of frozen water on the Moon may be sufficiently massive to sustain long-term lunar exploration.
(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe.
(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)
