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Reservoir   /rˈɛzəvwˌɑr/  /rˈɛzərvwˌɑr/   Listen
noun
Reservoir  n.  
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.
3.
(Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans.
4.
(Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host.
5.
A large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve.
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.





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... resource problems (no natural reservoir catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, sea water intrusion to island's largest aquifer, increased salination in the north); water pollution from sewage and industrial wastes; coastal degradation; loss of wildlife habitats ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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... not been, we should have had pestilence on pestilence in it, as terrible as the great plague of Charles II.'s time. The old Britons, without knowing in the least what they were doing, settled old London city in the very centre of the most wonderful natural reservoir in this island, or perhaps in all Europe; which reaches from Kent into Wiltshire, and round again into Suffolk; and that is, the dear ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley
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... appetizing, and the second is not much less doubtful, while the third, alone, presents the limpidity and transparency which one has a right to demand in potable water. Nevertheless, one should not believe, as many persons do, that the water that we see in this reservoir, and which has been taken within the limits of Paris, is the same that is distributed from time to time through each quarter. The water there used is taken up-stream and before it has been soiled by its passage ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
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... receive this get into a travelling-suit and put what money and valuables you have into your pockets. Then go to a dark-green car which will await you by the reservoir in the Boulevard du Midi. Trust the driver. You must get over the frontier into Italy at the earliest moment. Every second's delay is dangerous to you. Do not trouble to find out who sends you this ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
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... was payable gold; that is to say, it would have been payable had there been water in the neighborhood. The prospect I had taken was an extremely rich one. What was to be done? After long consideration I decided to excavate a reservoir on the hillside in the vicinity of the deposit, and trust to its being filled with rain. The month was October; thunderstorms were due. So far, however, the season ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
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