Synonyms for reservoir
ˈrɛz ərˌvwɑr, -ˌvwɔr, -ˌvɔr, ˈrɛz ə-reser·voir

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1. reservoirnoun

   a large or extra supply of something

   "a reservoir of talent"

   Synonyms:
   man-made lake, artificial lake, source

2. reservoir, artificial lake, man-made lakenoun

   lake used to store water for community use

   Synonyms:
   man-made lake, artificial lake, source

3. reservoirnoun

   tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

   Synonyms:
   man-made lake, artificial lake, source

4. reservoir, sourcenoun

   anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

   "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

   Synonyms:
   origin, beginning, generator, author, informant, rootage, root, artificial lake, seed, reference, source, germ, man-made lake

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1. • Lake
   • Supply
   • Tank
   • Thing

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1. reservoirnoun

   Synonyms:
   basin, cistern, tank

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1. List of paraphrases for "reservoir":

   tank, reservoirs, container, shell, deposit, pool, tanks, warehouse, cistern, depot, bulb, repository, beaker, forebay

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1. Alexander Haddow:

   I read all of his papers and the papers that came out of the lab, we owe our basic understanding of many arboviruses and their associated mosquito and reservoir species to them.

2. Chelsea Peters:

   Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

3. Doug Hollies:

   This expertise does not exist yet. Reservoir models are still being proven for thermal processes.

4. Richard Tinker:

   These things always look very impressive when they happen — and this one certainly is impressive — but down the road, depending on how things go, they might not be quite the boon that you think that they are at the beginning, but from a reservoir standpoint, we’d rather have it than not have it.

5. Christopher Castro:

   Even a good monsoon will not alleviate much the large shortfalls in reservoir storage here in the Colorado River Basin, as stream flow is mostly dependent on winter snow pack in the upper portion of Colorado River Basin.