reservoir
part of speech
noun (a reservoir, reservoirs)
meaning for a pupil
1) A large lake, often made by people with a dam, that stores water for a town or city. tree →
2) A container or tank that holds liquid in a machine. tree →
3) A large supply of something: a reservoir of ideas. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah and Kabbalah, it names the storehouses that hold God's blessing, which flows down from above. In the primary lessons: In geography and science lessons, reservoirs store drinking water and the water cycle refills them. In safety, reservoirs are deep and very cold; never swim in them. In maths, capacity problems ask how many litres a reservoir holds. Phrases: reservoir dam, water reservoir.
examples
- influxes of the emanations, for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the Blessings, with which these themselves are united. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Our water comes from a reservoir in the hills. tree →
- The reservoir was low after the dry summer. tree →
- Never swim in a reservoir; the water is deep and cold. tree →
- The car's washer reservoir needs filling. tree →
- The dam holds back the reservoir. tree →
- The reservoir holds 2 million litres of water. tree →
- He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water. tree →
note
Countable. Say «REZ-er-vwar». Spelling trap: -voir, not -vour. Safety: reservoirs look calm but have hidden currents and freezing water.
In the corpora
- The clean water arrives from a treatment works, pushed along by pumps and by gravity from reservoirs and water towers up high.
- Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with hidden currents.
Trees and pragmatics
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