Reservoirs - English meaning

Reservoirs – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
Usage examples:
The more water we use, the more land has to be flooded for reservoirs
Synonims:
Pool Lake Pond Water supply Waterbody Loch Tank Cenote
noun
A population, tissue, etc. which is chronically infested with the causative agent of a disease and can act as a source of further infection.
Usage examples:
There is a vast reservoir of herpes infection in the community

Reservoirs translation into English

Reservoirs: translate from English into Chinese

水库

Reservoirs: translate from English into Dutch

Reservoirs

Reservoirs: translate from English into French

Réservoirs

Reservoirs: translate from English into German

Stauseen

Reservoirs: translate from English into Hindi

जलाशयों

Reservoirs: translate from English into Italian

Serbatoi

Reservoirs: translate from English into Korean

저수지

Reservoirs: translate from English into Russian

Резервуары

Reservoirs: translate from English into Spanish

Embalses

Word origin

mid 17th century: from French réservoir, from réserver ‘to reserve, keep’.

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Reservoirs – similar words

reservoired

adjective
Stored in or supplied from a reservoir; accumulated, stored.

Reservoired - all meanings in English

reservoir

noun
A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
Usage examples:
The more water we use, the more land has to be flooded for reservoirs

Lake used to store water for community use

noun
A natural or artificial lake for storing and supplying water for an area
Usage examples:
There’s a tremendous reservoir of goodwill out there.

Reservoir - all meanings in English

Reservoirs synonims

cenote

noun
A natural underground reservoir of water such as occurs in the limestone of yucatán, mexico.
Usage examples:
For example, cenotes of the yucatán peninsula of mexico are collapsed depressions, in the base of w…

Cenote - all meanings in English

lake

noun
A large area of water surrounded by land.
Usage examples:
Boys were swimming in the lake

noun
An insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.
Usage examples:
The inclusion of azurite blue and lake glazes indicates that this was a sophisticated and expensive…

noun
A large area of water that is not salty and is surrounded by land
Usage examples:
Lake michigan

Lake - all meanings in English

loch

noun
A lake.
Usage examples:
Loch lomond

noun
In scotland, a lake or inlet of the sea or ocean
Usage examples:
Loch lomond

Loch - all meanings in English

pond

noun
A small body of still water formed naturally or by artificial means.
Usage examples:
A garden pond

verb
Hold back or dam up (flowing water or another liquid) to form a pond.
Usage examples:
The lava can't flow away and gets ponded up in the crater

noun
A still area of water smaller than a lake, often artificially made

Pond - all meanings in English

pool

noun
A small area of still water, typically one formed naturally.
Usage examples:
The natural lake water interchanges with the pool area water, keeping it clean.

verb
(of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface.
Usage examples:
Sweat pooled in the hollow of my back

verb
(of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund.
Usage examples:
They entered a contract to pool any gains and invest them profitably

Pool - all meanings in English

tank

noun
A large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas.
Usage examples:
Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was…

verb
Short for tank engine.
Usage examples:
A large class of 0-6-0 tanks

noun
A container that holds liquid or gas
Usage examples:
A water tank, fuel/gas/oxygen tanks, a fish tank

Tank - all meanings in English

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