reservoir

[US]/ˈrezəvwɑː(r)/
[UK]/ˈrezərvwɑːr/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. storage for water, collection.

Phrases & Collocations

water reservoir

reservoir capacity

reservoir management

irrigation reservoir

reservoir construction

gas reservoir

oil reservoir

reservoir engineering

carbonate reservoir

reservoir rock

reservoir pressure

reservoir fluid

reservoir conditions

conglomerate reservoir

petroleum reservoir

clastic reservoir

heat reservoir

storage reservoir

regulating reservoir

reservoir engineer

reservoir volume

pressure reservoir

Example Sentences

a reservoir of manpower

a reservoir of gratitude.

a reservoir encompassed by mountains

Enterprise must have a reservoir of cheap labour.

rules that prohibit swimming in the reservoir;

the two reservoirs supply about 1% of the city's needs.

Fresh water was at a premium after the reservoir was contaminated.

The stratigraphic offlap reservoirs are mainly near the shore line of RST.

an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.

rains that filled the reservoirs to excess.

We must make use of our untapped reservoirs of talent.

Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent.

sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.

But the reservoirs of coastwise bar, lacustrine bay sandstone and shore sand occur in each tract.

Spherical gas holders, cryogenic tank, unites de transport reservoirs de stockage.

The minimum underbalance is independent of viscosity and compressibility and of reservoir fluids.It is a function of the formation porosity, permeability and radius of perforation channels.

Type of pore in reservoir is mainly secondary pore space, mainly including intragrain vugular pore and puncta.

Real-world Examples

So, these are relatively small reservoir.

Source: CNN Selected March 2016 Collection

It creates a reservoir under the surface.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

There are several reservoirs in the carbon cycle.

Source: Connection Magazine

We also visit water reservoir, big lake, which was partly frozen.

Source: CNN 10 Student English April 2019 Collection

A prehistoric stone circle emerges from a drying up reservoir.

Source: PBS Interview Environmental Series

Lindemeier says the countries are considered a joint reservoir of the virus.

Source: VOA Daily Standard April 2019 Collection

It's a system that has worked for decades when reservoirs were full.

Source: This month VOA Daily Standard English

They had all come to see the reservoir.

Source: New Standard High School English Compulsory Volume 3 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Vast reservoirs will catch the monsoon rains to replenish the aquifers.

Source: "BBC Documentary: Home"

I'm driving this thing to the reservoir.

Source: Modern Family - Season 02

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