different between reservoir vs fountain
reservoir
English
Etymology
From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???z.?.vw??(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /???z.?(?).vw??/, /???z.?(?).vw??/, /???z.?(?).v??/
Noun
reservoir (plural reservoirs)
- A place where anything is kept in store
- A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
- A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
- A supply or source of something.
- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
Derived terms
- air reservoir
- receiving reservoir
- oil reservoir
- petroleum reservoir
Related terms
- reserve
Translations
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French réservoir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?.z?r?v?a?r/, /re?.z?r?v?a?r/
- Hyphenation: re?ser?voir
Noun
reservoir n (plural reservoirs, diminutive reservoirtje n)
- reservoir
Derived terms
- waterreservoir
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fountain
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?n.tn?/
- (US) IPA(key): [?fa?n.?n?]
Noun
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- Nothing will plea?e ?ome Men, but Books ?tuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
Synonyms
- fount
- wellspring
- (heraldry) syke
Derived terms
Related terms
- font
Translations
Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
- (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Translations
References
Further reading
- fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- infonaut
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