'Reserve' definitions:

Definition of 'reserve'

(from WordNet)
noun
Formality and propriety of manner [syn: modesty, reserve]
noun
Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose [syn: reserve, backlog, stockpile]
noun
An athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced [syn: substitute, reserve, second-stringer]
noun
(medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
noun
A district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reservation, reserve]
noun
Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency [syn: military reserve, reserve]
noun
The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]
verb
Hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"
verb
Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve]
verb
Obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
verb
Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" [syn: reserve, hold, book]

Definition of 'Reserve'

From: GCIDE
  • Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. r['e]server, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.]
  • 1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain; to make a reservation[7]. --Gen. xxvii. 35.
  • Note: In cases where one person or party makes a request to an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both to the action of the person making the request, and to the action of the agent who takes the approproriate action (such as a notation in a book of reservations) to be certain that the accommodation is available at that time. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job xxxviii. 22,23. [1913 Webster]
  • Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Reserve'

From: GCIDE
  • Reserve \Re*serve"\, n. [F. r['e]serve.]
  • 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. [1913 Webster]
  • However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. [1913 Webster]
  • The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is excepted; exception. [1913 Webster]
  • Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. [1913 Webster]
  • My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops 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. (b) troops trained but released from active service, retained as a formal part of the military force, and liable to be recalled to active service in cases of national need (see Army organization, above). [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Finance) (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; specif.: (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law (in 1913) to be not less than 15 per cent (--U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the
  • reinsurance fund or the
  • self-insurance fund. For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the
  • initial reserve, and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the
  • terminal reserve. For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the
  • insurance reserve, and the terminal reserve is then called the
  • investment reserve. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 9. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 10. (Calico Printing) A resist. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 11. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'reserve'

From: GCIDE
  • Resist \Re*sist"\, n.
  • 1. (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. --F. C. Calvert. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain action; specif.: A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, or of a silicon wafer, to prevent the action on it of acid, other chemical agents, or any other process such as irradiation or deposition, which would modify the surface if not protected. The resist is usually applied or in some way formed into a pattern so that the underlying surface may be modified in a complementary pattern. [PJC]

Synonyms of 'reserve'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Reserve, WI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wisconsin

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Reserve, WI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wisconsin
Population (2000) :
436
Housing Units (2000) :
252
Land area (2000) :
53.009057 sq. miles (137.292821 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.698415 sq. miles (1.808887 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
53.707472 sq. miles (139.101708 sq. km)
FIPS code :
67050
Located within :
Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location :
45.859877 N, 91.372722 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Reserve, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Reserve, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000) :
37
Housing Units (2000) :
25
Land area (2000) :
1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
FIPS code :
62125
Located within :
Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location :
48.605251 N, 104.463969 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
59258
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Reserve, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Reserve, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000) :
387
Housing Units (2000) :
238
Land area (2000) :
0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
FIPS code :
62620
Located within :
New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location :
33.708493 N, 108.760822 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
87830
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Reserve, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Reserve, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000) :
100
Housing Units (2000) :
60
Land area (2000) :
0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
FIPS code :
59050
Located within :
Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location :
39.976378 N, 95.564464 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
66434
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Reserve, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Reserve, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana
Population (2000) :
9111
Housing Units (2000) :
3385
Land area (2000) :
16.067055 sq. miles (41.613480 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.050370 sq. miles (2.720446 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
17.117425 sq. miles (44.333926 sq. km)
FIPS code :
64310
Located within :
Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location :
30.062566 N, 90.553296 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
70084
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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