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reserve
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)
- (behaviour) Restriction.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- (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.
- (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- (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.
- 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period (page 161)
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
- (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.
- (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- (calico printing) A resist.
- 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)
- To keep back; to retain.
- We reserve the right to make modifications.
- 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.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
- (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)
- reserve, emergency supply (that which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use)
- military reserves
- reservation, restraint
- (law, Belgium) forced estate, legitime
- Synonym: voorbehouden deel
- Antonym: beschikbaar deel
- (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)
- (colloquial) reserve.
- Synonyms: cadangan, serap
- (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)
- 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)
- a reserve
Derived terms
- reservedel
References
- “reserve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
reserve
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reservar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reservar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reservar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reservar
Spanish
Verb
reserve
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reservar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reservar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reservar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of reservar.
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vein
English
Alternative forms
- wayn (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?n, IPA(key): /ve?n/
- Homophones: vain, vane
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
vein (plural veins)
- (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
- (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
- (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
- A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
- (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
- I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
Related terms
- in the same vein
- veined
- veinless
- veinlet
- veinlike
- veinstone
- veiny
- venation
- venous
- blue-veined cheese
- deep vein thrombosis
- pulmonary vein
- varicose vein
Translations
Verb
vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)
- To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
- 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,[1]
- […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
- 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,[2]
- “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”
- 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,[1]
See also
- artery
- blood vessel
- capillary
- circulatory system
- phlebitis
- vena cava
Further reading
- vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vein at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Vien, Vine, nevi, vine
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.
Noun
vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)
- wine
Declension
Derived terms
- punane vein
- valge vein
Finnish
Verb
vein
- first-person singular indicative past of viedä
Anagrams
- evin, vien
Gallo
Etymology
From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.
Noun
vein m (plural veins)
- wine
Icelandic
Etymology
Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vei?n/
- Rhymes: -ei?n
Noun
vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)
- wail, lament
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Adjective
vein
- vain (worthless, useless)
- vain (futile, ineffectual)
- unfounded, false, misleading
- (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible
Alternative forms
- veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine
Descendants
- English: vain
- Scots: vane, vain, vaine
Noun
vein (uncountable)
- something that is worthless or futile
- idleness, triviality
Alternative forms
- weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)
Descendants
- English: vain
References
- “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
vein (plural veines)
- Alternative form of veine (“vein”)
Etymology 3
Adverb
vein
- Alternative form of fain
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