RESERVE

reserve, reticence, taciturnity

(noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

modesty, reserve

(noun) formality and propriety of manner

reservation, reserve

(noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose

substitute, reserve, second-stringer

(noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

reserve, backlog, stockpile

(noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose

reserve

(noun) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions

allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve

(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; “I will earmark this money for your research”; “She sets aside time for meditation every day”

reserve

(verb) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; “We managed to reserve a table at Maxim’s”

reserve

(verb) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; “they held back their applause in anticipation”

reserve, hold, book

(verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; “reserve me a seat on a flight”; “The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family”; “please hold a table at Maxim’s”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

(behaviour) Restriction.

Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.

A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.

A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose

(Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)

(military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

(finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.

A reserve price in an auction.

Wine held back and aged before being sold.

(ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.

(social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.

(sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.

(card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.

In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.

(calico printing) A resist.

A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

Synonyms

• (restraint of freedom in words or actions): self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity

• (sports: reserve player): substitute

• (military: reserve forces): Army Reserve, Territorial Army, TA, TAVR, territorials, terriers, reservists

• (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples): reservation, res, rez

Verb

reserve (third-person singular simple present reserves, present participle reserving, simple past and past participle reserved)

To keep back; to retain.

To keep in store for future or special use.

To book in advance; to make a reservation.

(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

Anagrams

• Reveres, reveres, reverse, severer, veerers

Proper noun

Reserve

A city in Kansas.

A census-designated place in Louisiana.

A census-designated place in Montana.

A county seat, Catron County, New Mexico.

A census-designated place in Wisconsin.

Anagrams

• Reveres, reveres, reverse, severer, veerers

Source: Wiktionary

Re*serve" (r-zrv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (zp. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] Etym: [F. réserver, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.]

1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak.

2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. xxvii. 35. Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble Job xxxviii. 22,23. Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. Swift.

3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]

Re*serve", n. Etym: [F. réserve.]

1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison.

2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. Tillotson.

3. That which is excepted; exception. Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. Rogers.

4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

6. (Mil.)

Definition: A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

7. (Banking)

Definition: Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve.

– Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.

Syn.

– Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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