reservoirn.
/ˈrɛzəvwɑː/, U.S. /ˈrɛzə(r)ˌvwɑr/ 1.
a. A lake or large pool, natural or man-made, used to store water for public and industrial use, for irrigation, etc. Also more generally: a large expanse of water held back by a dam.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > constructed reservoir
recluse1593
conservera1614
reserver1615
conservatory1626
tank1634
reservatory1666
reservoir1686
kund1837
impounding reservoir1875
catch basin1884
spring box1887
tank1898
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > receptacle > for liquids
vata1225
vessel1340
cistern1382
reservoir1686
tank1690
pressure tank1862
storage tank1897
pillow tank1951
1686 T. Otway tr. S. de Broë Hist. Triumvirates II. xix. 569 The Lakes were Reservoirs, of a prodigious extent, made by incredible labour and expence.
1717 B. Wilson tr. J. Cassagnes Funeral Oration in Coll. Harangues 41 He resembl'd the Reservoir, which keeps Waters in Store.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 136 Water is conveyed from the reservoirs at Islington to many different parts of our capital.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 177 The towers of Saana, and the marvellous reservoir of Merab, were constructed by the kings of the Homerites.
1833 Laws State N.Y. 508 The making, constructing and repairing of..cisterns or reservors.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vii. i. 121 He was constantly taken up with aqueducts, reservoirs, and other improvements.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. v. 173 At Canterbury there are three reservoirs covered in and protected.
1911 Farmer's Weekly 15 Mar. 4 This water is pumped into a cement reservoir.
1935 E. F. Benson Lucia's Progress vi. 149 Now, as if the dam of a reservoir had burst, the pent waters of vocal intercourse carried all before them.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans ix. 309 The reservoir behind the dam is refilled on the next rising tide.
2006 Daily Tel. 16 May 2/5 With the reservoirs running dry, the water authorities were struggling for ideas.
b. figurative. A place, sphere of activity, etc., in which something collects or is collected in the manner of water in a reservoir (sense 1a); a sump. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > specifically of immaterial things
arkc1175
garnerc1175
cellara1387
aumbry1477
vein1533
armourya1586
arsenal1593
portmanteau?1602
repository1639
reservoir1690
toy shop1714
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > place where anything is accumulated
repository1671
reservoir1839
1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning 9 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Ancient Colledges, or Societies of Priests, were mighty Reservoirs or Lakes of Knowledge.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) vi. 323 Grand reservoirs of public happiness, Through secret streams diffusively they bless.
1763 A. Murphy Citizen i. ii. 9 The father is a reservoir of riches, and the son is a fountain to play it all away in vanity and folly!
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. l. 233 This had been the principal reservoir..into which the tribute of the East had flowed.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 307 Rome—the reservoir, as Tacitus says, into which all things infamous and shameful flowed.
1912 E. Olbrich Devel. Sentiment Negro Suffrage iii. 74 New York would then become a reservoir into which other states could pour this undesirable class.
c. A tank or cistern for water, esp. for domestic use; spec. a tank in the attic which supplies water to the rest of the house.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > constructed reservoir > cistern
cisternessea1325
cistern1382
spurgelc1450
sestern1534
vault1552
reservoir1728
impluvium1823
well-cistern1869
feed-tank1886
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Reservoir in a Building is a large Bason, usually of Wood, lined with Lead, where Water is kept to supply the Occasions of the House.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 124 On the top of it is a cistern..and from this reservoir the water is distributed all over the house.
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 27 June in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 206 A large reservoir of water is placed in the third loft of the house.
1854 E. Owen Heroines of Hist. 83 Every house having a reservoir, together with an opening through which it was drawn up in buckets or pitchers.
1864 Amer. Med. Times 26 Mar. 149/2 On removing the cover of a warm-water reservoir, in the loft of one of my houses, I was stung by a wasp.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1920/2 The reservoirs of ranges are usually vertical iron boilers, connected by pipes with the water supply of the city.
1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 3/7 They were..lying in their bunks... Above them were water reservoirs. The force of the explosion burst the water tanks.
1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. 9 e The kitchen water came right in from the main, but the upstairs water sat in a dirty old reservoir in the attic.
d. A place or area in which water naturally collects in large quantities.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > natural reservoir
cisterna1616
costern1633
tank1678
reservoir1732
water pit1800
1732 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 308 Two Streams or Springs, one of which passing through two Caverns or natural Reservoirs with Syphons, meets with the other Stream in a third Reservoir.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 32 Temporary springs..have no reservoir or considerable receptacle in the bowels of the earth.
1784 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 185 These Mountains, then, are the grand reservoir of water for many parts of New England.
1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 27 July in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1983) VIII. xxxvii. 136 The day proved warm but the late rains had supplyed the little reservors in the plains with water.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 290 The lake, forming an extensive reservoir, greatly equalizes the discharge of water.
1866 S. W. Baker Albert N'yanza II. 95 I looked down..upon that vast reservoir which nourished Egypt.
1921 F. O'Brien Mystic Isles S. Seas xviii. 380 A great natural reservoir, fed by many subterranean springs, it [sc. the lake] gives birth to many others at the feet of the mountains.
1986 R. Kilpatrick tr. P. Bembo in Stud. Philol. 83 356 The tree is hollow inside to its very roots, and forms a reservoir for rain water.
2003 Guardian 6 Mar. (Online section) 10/5 We have natural subterranean reservoirs of water on Earth called aquifers.
e. A space within the earth containing molten rock, esp. a volcano's magma chamber.
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1773 J. Bryant New Syst. I. 194 Ætna..being a reservoir of molten matter.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iii. 49 The fluid matters which produced external volcanoes, exist in internal reservoirs of limited extent, forming subterranean lakes.
1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. ii. 68 If there were any communication between their respective reservoirs of molten lava.
2003 B. Bryson Short Hist. Nearly Everything (2004) xv. 279 A reservoir of molten rock that begins at least 200 kilometres down in the Earth and rises to near the surface.
f. A body of porous rock holding a large quantity of oil or natural gas.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > source rock > containing oil or gas
reservoir1847
oil pool1863
reservoir rock1877
pool1902
trap1920
trend1939
1847 Munic. Gaz. (N.Y.) 1 Feb. 661/2 But it must not be inferred that when the explosions here treated are often repeated..they all proceed from the same vein or reservoir of gas.
1890 E. Orton 1st Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio iii. 111 It cost him a great struggle to give up sandstone as the sole and necessary reservoir of oil.
1951 K. K. Landes Petroleum Geol. iii. 101 The escape of gas to the surface in disproportionate amounts to the oil produced will result in more and more sluggish oil being left behind in the reservoir.
1980 Times 15 May 19/2 British Petroleum has discovered a second, deeper reservoir on its onshore field at Kimmeridge.
2007 Nature 18 Oct. p. xiii Sediments..have yielded microbial cultures that utilize propane and butane under anoxic conditions similar to those prevailing in gas reservoirs.
2. A part of a human or animal body, or of a plant, in which a fluid or other substance is collected or stored; (Surgery) an artificial structure made for this purpose.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > function of part > receptacle
receptory?a1425
reservatory1670
reservoir1710
receptacle1832
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > pouch or receptacle > for fluid
baga1555
reservatory1670
reservoir1828
1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. I. 85/2 The most Subtle Parts of the Chyle pass from the Intestins into the Lacteal Veins, and from thence..into the Reservoir of the Chyle.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Receptaculum A Reservoir or Cavity near the left Kidney, into which the lacteal Vessels do all Discharge their Contents.
1793 G. Wallis Art Preventing Dis. i. ii. 56 The urinary ducts opening at length into the great urinary reservoir, or pelvis, which terminates in the ureter.
1828 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) IV. xlii. 153 This organ was a reservoir for the spermatic fluid.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 431 The primary arrangement of the secretory reservoirs presents little of interest.
1911 A. R. Littlejohn Meat & its Inspection vii. 104 These milk-ducts terminate in the milk sinuses or reservoirs at the bases of the teats.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 72 There is frequently a pair of vesiculae seminales or sperm reservoirs, formed by the enlargement of a part of each vas deferens.
1974 Ann. Surg. 179 637/1 None of the 19 patients who have had an ileal reservoir..have been incapacitated to any greater degree than patients with a satisfactory functioning ileostomy.
2002 A. R. Adrouny Understanding Colon Cancer ii. 20 The lymph drains through this network of nodes and eventually finds its way into a large sac (or reservoir) of fluid.
3.
a. A part of an apparatus in which a liquid or gas is contained.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for fluid > as part of some apparatus
reservoir1714
catchwater1875
catch reservoir1878
1714 J. Clarke Ess. Method measuring Equal Time 11 It will be less Subject to be affected by the different Pressures of the Atmosphere upon the Surface of the Mercury in the Reservoir.
1784 M. Cutler Jrnl. 24 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 106 Some particles of mercury had exuded through the leather of the reservoir [in a thermometer].
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxviii. 337 The fountain of Hero precisely resembles in its operation the hydraulic vessels of Schemnitz... The first reservoir of the fountain is lower than the orifice of the jet.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xix. 215 The lamp required to be replenished.., though its reservoir of oil was exceedingly capacious.
1920 Motor Rec. Nov. 11/1 The oil reservoir forms the bottom of the crank case.
1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 12 June d15/2 Why don't the pen makers make their own tips and reservoirs?
2004 Immunization in Pract. (World Health Organization) iv. i. 5 The vaccine is contained in a sealed, bubble-like reservoir that prevents it from coming in contact with the needle until the administration.
b. An enclosed space in an organ in which wind from the blower is stored before it is released into the pipes or chest.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > wind-chest
wind-chest1797
reservoir1840
wind-box1852
wind-cistern1880
storage-bellows1891
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 492/2 The registrars, by which the equal rising of the reservoir is ensured.
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. i. 41 Bellows consist of two parts, termed respectively the ‘Feeder’ and the ‘Reservoir’.
1924 Music & Lett. 5 254 There being no wind reservoir as in the hydraulus and in the modern organ, the pressure was obtained by the weight of the blowers.
2003 L. Libin in R. L. Marshall 18th-cent. Keyboard Music (ed. 2) i. 24 In all but the smallest organs, a weighted reservoir connected to the bellows maintains constant air pressure.
c. Engineering. In a closed hydraulic system: a tank containing fluid that can be supplied to the system when needed to compensate for small losses.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [noun] > parts of
helm1663
spring-beam?1794
steam-jacket1838
cut-off1849
steam-jacketing1870
starting block1881
timing chain1889
timing mark1901
decelerator1907
air drain1908
plenum chamber1908
reservoir1920
1920 Motor Rec. Sept. 43/2 Oil is then forced into the hydraulic cylinder, through the line from the oil reservoir by engaging the clutch attached to the pump, thus extending the jack and raising the car.
1946 W. H. Crouse Automotive Mech. xxv. 550 The master cylinder includes a reservoir or supply tank that contains an additional quantity of brake fluid.
1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook x. 117/2 Normal maintenance of the hydraulic system is confined to checking the level of the brake fluid in the reservoir at regular intervals.
2009 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 89 To lower the [elevator] cab, the valve opens, allowing the fluid to return to the reservoir.
4. A container or repository for solid objects or solid matter.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 114 Down to its Reservoir the Meat's convey'd And due Digestion is the better made.
1774 J. Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 313 Some birds..have a craw or crap also, which serves as a reservoir, and for softening the grain.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 201 Every reservoir of riches was disclosed to their view.
1803 Censor 1 Nov. 126 I thrust my sweetheart into the coal-cellar... I flattered myself that he could remain unseen in some corner of that large reservoir.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 402/1 Most [pencil] cases are made with a reservoir at the top, in which a supply of five or six leads may be carried.
1867 Merchants' Mag. Aug. 147 The letters which are to compose the words are placed in a reservoir turning on a pivot.
1930 Physical Rev. 36 529 Taking small samples of about 100 grams each from the grain reservoir.
1980 Org. Gardening 27 110/2 Seed is allowed to leave the seed reservoir and dump down through the center of the planter.
2006 Field July 68/3 The reservoir of ignition powder [in the gun]..resembled a perfume bottle.
5. A free-standing container intended to hold liquids or gases.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for fluid
receipta1450
receivera1552
reservatory1666
reservoir1750
1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 99 A large brown jugg stood there apart, The reservoir of near a quart; The liquor pure, as amber fine.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 114 Large troughs or vats..to serve as reservoirs for the sap when collected.
1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 125 The gas..is conveyed by iron pipes into large reservoirs, or gazometers.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses from Old Manse II. 40 The main reservoir of wine was a sepulchral urn of silver, whence the liquor was distributed around the table in small vases.
1865 A. J. H. Duganne Camps & Prisons (ed. 2) iii. 35 Displaying to my interested gaze the troughs, the coolers, vacuum-pans, and mighty iron kettles, the reservoir of syrup.
1946 Liberty 25 May 25/3 We still poured them [sc. concoctions] out of reservoirs into table glasses.
6. A person or thing regarded as a repository of qualities, attributes, etc.; a fund, a pool; a reserve supply.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > of people
reservoir1941
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > kept in reserve
arrearage1594
reserve1646
nest-egg1837
balance (in hand)1876
backlog1883
reservoir1941
1755 W. Mason Let. 27 June in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 423 Germany is the reservoir of solid Literature.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 201 What is His creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use?
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 34 The labours of others, have raised for us an immense reservoir of important facts.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vii. §359 There is in the upper regions of the air a great reservoir of positive electricity.
1912 Green Bag 24 7/1 His physical presence gives the impression of a frail body and a spiritual mind, but yet he is a reservoir of nervous energy.
1941 Illustrated 13 Sept. 12/2 He has raised, clothed, equipped, and put into training on a voluntary basis a reservoir of 200,000 young men as potential air crews for the R.A.F.
1959 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 322 139/1 The street..is the common reservoir of beliefs, myths, information.
2004 Nature 18 Mar. 259/2 The great intellectual reservoir of Scotland, home to subtle minds.
7. Medicine. A continuing source of pathogens for a particular disease, esp. an animal or plant that is not itself susceptible to the disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > person or population
infecter1509
infector1580
carrier1593
vaccinifer1862
fecundator1883
infective1925
reservoir1939
1885 T. L. Brunton Text-bk. Pharmacol., Therapeutics & Materia Medica i. iv. 106 On careful investigation, he found the only thing he had forgotten to burn was his gloves, and these had acted as a reservoir of infection.
1891 Med. Rec. 24 Oct. 502/1 We remove the reservoir of infection by excising the chancre promptly.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 72/3 (advt.) Such abscesses may act as reservoirs of infectious material which may enter the blood stream and be carried to the remote parts of the body.
1939 C. F. Carter Microbiol. & Path. (ed. 2) xxiv. 253 The most important reservoirs of infection are human or animal cases or carriers. Plants may be the reservoir of infection in some of the mycoses.
1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xv. 246 It would be possible that bats serve as a reservoir of histoplasmosis.
1977 Sci. Amer. Mar. 61/2 When no human being harbours the [smallpox] virus, there should remain only one reservoir: the stocks in research and diagnostic laboratories.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xvi. 251 B. anthracis infection..occurs in ‘anthrax regions’ where the soil commonly serves as a permanent reservoir of infection.
2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 45 Smallpox..was restricted to humans, having mutated too far from other animal pox viruses for animals to be able to act as a reservoir of infection.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. With reference to the storage of water (cf. sense 1a).
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1755 J. Smeaton Diary 20 June in Journey to Low Countries (1938) 22 The first thing I see this morning was a large reservoir Bason, called the mill Water, which is filled and emptied every tide.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 169/2 Reservoir-locks will be found very useful on slack water navigation.
1894 Daily News 31 July 5/3 The construction of the reservoir dam at Assouan.
1948 W. R. Wedel Prehist. & Missouri Valley Devel. Program 3 The need for thorough search at any proposed reservoir site before water is impounded.
1992 N.Y. Times 21 Jan. c10/6 In the summer, when the river is the muddiest, they plan to lower the reservoir level and flush the silt through.
b. With the sense ‘having or containing, fitted with, or serving as, a reservoir’.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 199/2 The operator in general carries the matter about with him on what is called a reservoir lancet.
1845 Stimpson Great Organ Birmingham 6 The Bellows of the Great Organ have also what are termed Reservoir Bellows.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1920/2 Reservoir-stove, one having a large boiler attached.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 4/2 The liquid contained in the so-called reservoir-cells on the walls of the first stomach [of the camel].
1913 Trans. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 6 269 The monkey is most probably the normal ‘reservoir host’.
1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) ii. 46 Scavenge pumps..deliver the oil into a cooler from which it flows into a separate reservoir tank.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 21 Jan. 47/3 Although it is technically possible to infect fruit bats with Ebola, there is no evidence that this is the mystery reservoir species.
C2.
reservoir engineer n. (a) a civil engineer concerned with the construction of dams and reservoirs for water (now rare); (b) an expert in the study and exploitation of natural oil and gas reservoirs.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in oil industry > [noun] > one who studies
reservoir engineer1904
petroleum geologist1912
1904 Before Aqueduct Comm.: Constr. Jerome Park Reservoir (Comm. & Industry Assoc., N.Y.) ii. 7 The extension of time to finish the westerly reservoir recently granted is necessary because the reservoir engineers have not prepared the plan of the bottom, or even decided upon the nature of the flooring.
1944 U.S. Patent 2,342,367 1/1 With these and other data, the reservoir engineers can predict the future recovery of hydrocarbon fluids.
1973 Mod. Petroleum Technol. (Inst. Petroleum) (ed. 4) v. 172 The primary aim of a reservoir engineer is to obtain maximum recovery at minimum cost.
1993 Winfrith Jrnl. (BNC) 8 1 Advanced computer software plays an important part in helping oil and gas reservoir engineers both to assess and devise exploitation strategies for oil field reserves.
reservoir engineering n. (a) the branch of civil engineering concerned with the construction of dams and reservoirs for water (now rare); (b) the study and exploitation of natural oil and gas reservoirs.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > study of
reservoir engineering1868
petroleum geology1917
1868 Trans. Royal Sc. Soc. Arts 7 4 Opinions which I believe to have no good foundation, and are calculated to be very prejudicial to reservoir engineering.
1888 Westm. Rev. 129 59 If the periodical droughts from which its territory suffers..can be combated by any devices of dams and reservoir engineering [etc.].
1944 U.S. Patent 2,342,367 1/1 The determination, interpretation, and application of this data is commonly known by the broad term, reservoir engineering.
1977 Times 2 Nov. 3 (advt.) Reservoir engineering is largely an art... Our job is to get information about..oil-bearing rock..below the sea bed.
1993 L. Randall Polit. Econ. Brazilian Oil ix. 247 CENPES undertook reservoir engineering studies for the Mishrif Formation of the Majnoon oil field..in Iraq.
reservoir pen n. a fountain pen.
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1820 Monthly Mag. Nov. 349 This invention is a reservoir pen intended to supply itself with ink.
1884 Queen 16 Feb. (advt.) The ‘Victor’ reservoir pen can be used with any good fluid ink, and any ordinary nib... Price 3s.6d.
1935 Times 23 Mar. 18/7 The prospectus of Conway, Stewart, and Co., manufacturers of stylographic and reservoir pens, is expected to be published next Wednesday.
2005 K. Walker Drawing & painting Fantasy Beasts (2007) 20 A wide variety of drawing pens are available, from dip pens with interchangeable nibs to many different types of reservoir pens.
reservoir rock n. rock that is or may be a reservoir for oil or natural gas.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > source rock > containing oil or gas
reservoir1847
oil pool1863
reservoir rock1877
pool1902
trap1920
trend1939
1877 C. H. Hitchcock Geol. New Hampsh. II. vi. 584 The reservoir rock, dipping 80° S. E., is an argillaceous quartzite.
1951 K. K. Landes Petroleum Geol. vii. 191 Throughout the world, sandstone is by far the most important reservoir rock.
1975 G. Anderson Coring i. 18 Permeability normally varies from one location to another vertically as well as horizontally in a reservoir rock.
1996 Introd. to Official List (Centrica plc) 109 The principal discriminant in reservoir quality is the presence or otherwise of platy illite in the pore structure of the reservoir rock.
Derivatives
ˈreservoirful n. rare
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1885 Trans. Brit. Dental Assoc. 4 30 The purest paraffin oil, in which is dissolved a lump of camphor of the size of a walnut to the ordinary reservoirful.
2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 May 34 The rain was unloading by the reservoirful.
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reservoirv.
/ˈrɛzəvwɑː/, U.S. /ˈrɛzə(r)ˌvwɑr/ transitive. To collect or keep in a reservoir; to store. Frequently in passive. Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)]
again-layOE
to put upc1330
to lay up?a1366
bestow1393
to set up1421
reserve1480
powder1530
store1552
uplay1591
garnera1616
storea1616
revestry1624
reposit1630
barrel1631
magazine1643
stock1700
to salt down1849
reservoir1858
tidy1867
larder1904
1858 J. T. Barclay City of Great King xix. 550 All these waters may easily have been reservoired quite near the city.
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iii. 156 Mental force is..reservoired, subject to the summons of the will.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Dec. 10/1 Millions of poods of oil have been lost, owing to the inefficient way in which it is reservoired and stored.
1926 Calif. Law Rev. 14 202 Reservoiring water is not a beneficial use per se but only a means to such use.
1961 Ecology 42 539/1 Should these viruses gain entry into India, they could conceivably become reservoired in rhesus monkey populations.
2008 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 10 June a18 Water has to be pumped in, filtered, purified, tested, reservoired and sent on its way.
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