reservoir

«reservoir» in Mova's school dictionary: A large lake, often made by people with a dam, that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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

Every meaning and example of «reservoir» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.