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res⋅er⋅voir

  [rez-er-vwahr, -vwawr, -vawr, rez-uh-]
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–noun
1. a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
2. a receptacle or chamber for holding a liquid or fluid.
3. Geology. See under pool 1 (def. 6).
4. Biology. a cavity or part that holds some fluid or secretion.
5. a place where anything is collected or accumulated in great amount.
6. a large or extra supply or stock; reserve: a reservoir of knowledge.
Origin:
1680–90; < F réservoir, equiv. to réserv(er) to reserve + -oir -ory 2

Synonyms:
5. store, pool, fund, stockpile, hoard.

pool

1  [pool]
–noun
1. a small body of standing water; pond.
2. a still, deep place in a stream.
3. any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood.
4. a puddle.
5. swimming pool.
6. a subterranean accumulation of oil or gas held in porous and permeable sedimentary rock (reservoir).
–verb (used without object)
7. to form a pool.
8. (of blood) to accumulate in a body part or organ.
–verb (used with object)
9. to cause pools to form in.
10. to cause (blood) to form pools.
–adjective
11. of or for a pool: pool filters.
12. taking place or occurring around or near a pool: a pool party.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE pōl; c. D poel, G Pfuhl
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cis·ter·na   (sĭ-stûr'nə)   
n.   pl. cis·ter·nae (-nē)

  1. Anatomy A fluid-containing sac or cavity in the body of an organism. Also called reservoir.

  2. Cytology One of the saclike vesicles that comprise the endoplasmic reticulum.


[Latin, cistern; see cistern.]
cis·ter'nal adj.
res·er·voir   (rěz'ər-vwär', -vwôr', -vôr')   
n.  

  1. A natural or artificial pond or lake used for the storage and regulation of water.

  2. A receptacle or chamber for storing a fluid.

  3. An underground accumulation of petroleum or natural gas.

  4. Anatomy See cisterna.

  5. A large or extra supply; a reserve: a reservoir of good will.

  6. Medicine An organism or a population that directly or indirectly transmits a pathogen while being virtually immune to its effects.


[French réservoir, from réserver, to reserve, from Old French reserver; see reserve.]
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Word Origin & History

reservoir 
1690, "a place where something tends to collect," from Fr. réservoir "storehouse," from O.Fr. reserver "to reserve" (see reserve). Specific meaning "artificial basin to collect and store a large body of water" is from 1705.

pool  (1)
"small body of water," O.E. pol, from W.Gmc. *pol- (cf. O.Fris., M.L.G. pol, Du. poel, O.H.G. pfuol, Ger. Pfuhl). As a short form of swimming pool it is recorded from 1921.
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Financial Dictionary

pool

  1. A temporary affiliation of two or more people in an attempt to manipulate a security's price and/or volume. The pool is necessary in order to acquire the capital needed to manipulate a stock having a large market value. Pools were especially popular in the 1920s and early 1930s but now have been regulated out of existence. See also blind pool, trading pool.

  2. See mortgage pool.


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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: pool
Function: transitive verb
: to combine (as assets or votes) in a common form or effort; especially : to combine (interests) so as not to have a merger of companies considered a purchase for accounting purposes
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2pool
Function: noun
: a readily available supply: as a : the whole quantity of a particular material present in the body andavailable for function or the satisfying of metabolic demands —see GENE POOL, METABOLIC POOL b : a body product (as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use

Main Entry: res·er·voir
Pronunciation: 'rez-&(r)v-"wär, -&(r)v-"(w)or
Function: noun
1 : a space (as an enlargement of avessel or the cavity of a glandular acinus) in which a body fluid is stored
2 : an organism in which a parasite that is pathogenic for some other species lives and multiplieswithout damaging its host; also : a noneconomic organism within which a pathogen of economic or medical importance flourishes without regard to its pathogenicity for the reservoirreservoirs of plague> —compare CARRIER 1a
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Medical Dictionary

pool (p&oomacr;l)
n.
A collection of blood in any region of the body due to dilation and retardation of the circulation in capillaries and veins.

reservoir res·er·voir (rěz'ər-vwär', -vwôr', -vôr')
n.

  1. A fluid-containing sac or cavity.

  2. An organism or a population that directly or indirectly transmits a pathogen while being virtually immune to its effects.

  3. A large or extra supply; a reserve.

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Encyclopedia

reservoir

an open-air storage area (usually formed by masonry or earthwork) where water is collected and kept in quantity so that it may be drawn off for use.

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