different between reservation vs reserve

English

Etymology

From Middle French reservation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??ve???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z??ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reservation (countable and uncountable, plural reservations)

1. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

   The committee authorised the reservation of funds.

   1. The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
   2. The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
2. Something that is withheld or kept back.
3. (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.

   I have reservations about your intentions.

4. (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
5. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
6. (Britain) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.

   A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.

7. (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

Synonyms

• (advance arrangement): booking
• (central reservation, motorway lane separator): median, median strip
• (Indian reservation): reserve, res, rez

Related terms

• mental reservation
• off the reservation
• reserve

Translations

Anagrams

• veratrosine

Middle French

Noun

reservation f (plural reservations)

1. reservation (limiting qualification)

Descendants

• English: reservation
• French: réservation

English

Etymology

From Old French reserver.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??v/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v
• Hyphenation: re?serve

Noun

reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

1. (behaviour) Restriction.
   1. The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.

   2. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
2. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
   1. A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
   2. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose

   3. (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
   4. (military) A body of troops kept 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.
   5. (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
   6. A reserve price in an auction.
   7. Wine held back and aged before being sold.
   8. (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
      • 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period (page 161)

        Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.

3. (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
   1. (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
   2. (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
4. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
5. (calico printing) A resist.
6. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

Synonyms

• (restraint of freedom in words or actions): self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity
• (sports: reserve player): substitute
• (military: reserve forces): Army Reserve, Territorial Army, TA, TAVR, territorials, terriers, reservists
• (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples): reservation, res, rez

Derived terms

Related terms

• reservist

Translations

Verb

reserve (third-person singular simple present reserves, present participle reserving, simple past and past participle reserved)

1. To keep back; to retain.

   We reserve the right to make modifications.

2. To keep in store for future or special use.

   This cake is reserved for the guests!

   • c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage

     Conceal your esteem and love in your own breast, and reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

3. To book in advance; to make a reservation.

   I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.

4. (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

Translations

Anagrams

• Reveres, reveres, reverse, severer, veerers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French reserve, from Old French reserver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??z?r.v?/
• Hyphenation: re?ser?ve
• Rhymes: -?rv?

Noun

reserve f (plural reserves, diminutive reservetje n)

1. reserve, emergency supply (that which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use)
2. military reserves
3. reservation, restraint
4. (law, Belgium) forced estate, legitime

   Synonym: voorbehouden deel

   Antonym: beschikbaar deel

5. (sports) alternate, substitute, reserve

Derived terms

• gasreserve
• oliereserve
• kapitaalreserve
• reserveband
• reservebank
• reservebatterij
• reserve-eenheid
• reservefiets
• reservekracht
• reserveleger
• reservemateriaal
• reserveofficier
• reserveonderdeel
• reservevoorraad
• reservewiel
• vetreserve
• voedselreserve

Related terms

• reserveren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: reserwe
• ? Indonesian: reserve

Anagrams

• serveer, servere, verrees

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch reserve, from Old French reserver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r??ser.v?]
• Hyphenation: rê?sér?vê

Noun

rêsérvê (first-person possessive reserveku, second-person possessive reservemu, third-person possessive reservenya)

1. (colloquial) reserve.

   Synonyms: cadangan, serap

2. (colloquial) requirement.

   Synonym: syarat

Further reading

• “reserve” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Via German Reserve from French réserve

Noun

reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reserver, definite plural reservene)

1. a reserve

Derived terms

• reservedel

Related terms

• reservere

References

• “reserve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “reserve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Via German Reserve from French réserve

Noun

reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reservar, definite plural reservane)

1. a reserve

Derived terms

• reservedel

References

• “reserve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

reserve

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reservar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reservar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reservar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reservar

Spanish

Verb

reserve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reservar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reservar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reservar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reservar.