reserve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɝv/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɜːv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: reserves
Etymology: From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).
Senses: examples: text: The book is on reserve.
text: I accept your view with one reserve.
glosses: A restriction.
The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
glosses: A restriction.
Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
examples: text: New oil reserves are continuously being discovered, but not as fast as the existing ones are running out.
text: If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
ref: 2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13:
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
examples: text: the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio was originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut.
text: the Clergy Reserves in Canada are for the support of the clergy.
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group: Indian reserve.
related: word: res
word: rez
synonyms: reservation
examples: text: no reserves [the military force is throwing everything it has at the front]
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
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.
topics: business
finance
insurance
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
examples: text: no reserve [the lot(s) will be sold no matter how low the bids are]
text: reserve not met [the lot(s) will not be sold because the highest bid was too low to be acceptable]
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
A reserve price in an auction.
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
Wine held back and aged before being sold.
examples: text: Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.
ref: 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, N.Y: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 161:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.
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.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.
A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
glosses: In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
qualifier: calico printing
glosses: A resist.
glosses: A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
Synonyms: sense: restraint of freedom in words or actions
word: self-restraint
sense: restraint of freedom in words or actions
word: reticence
sense: restraint of freedom in words or actions
word: taciturnity
sense: sports: reserve player
word: substitute
sense: military: reserve forces
word: Army Reserve
word: Territorial Army
word: TA
word: TAVR
word: territorials
word: terriers
word: reservists
sense: tract of land for Aboriginal peoples
word: reservation
sense: tract of land for Aboriginal peoples
word: res
sense: tract of land for Aboriginal peoples
word: rez
Derived terms: cognitive reserve
cookie-jar reserve
dividend equalisation reserve
Federal Reserve
fractional reserve banking
functional reserve
game reserve
in reserve
natural reserve
nature reserve
off reserve
off-reserve
reserve bank
reserve buoyancy
reserve currency
reserve grade
reserve grader
reserve price
reserve team
urban reserve
wildlife reserve
Related terms: reservist