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# reservoir

«reservoir» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A large lake, often made by people with a dam, that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a reservoir, reservoirs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large lake, often made by people with a dam, that stores water for a town or city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#m1)

2) A container or tank that holds liquid in a machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#m2)

3) A large supply of something: a reservoir of ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah and Kabbalah, it names the storehouses that hold God's blessing, which flows down from above. In the primary lessons: In geography and science lessons, reservoirs store drinking water and the water cycle refills them. In safety, reservoirs are deep and very cold; never swim in them. In maths, capacity problems ask how many litres a reservoir holds. Phrases: reservoir dam, water reservoir.

### examples

- influxes of the emanations, for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the Blessings, with which these themselves are united. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x1)
- Our water comes from a reservoir in the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x2)
- The reservoir was low after the dry summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x3)
- Never swim in a reservoir; the water is deep and cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x4)
- The car's washer reservoir needs filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x5)
- The dam holds back the reservoir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x6)
- The reservoir holds 2 million litres of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x7)
- He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/#x8)

### note

Countable. Say «REZ-er-vwar». Spelling trap: -voir, not -vour. Safety: reservoirs look calm but have hidden currents and freezing water.

### In the corpora

- [The clean water arrives from a treatment works, pushed along by pumps and by gravity from reservoirs and water towers up high.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/1/)
- [Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with hidden currents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reservoir» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/reservoir/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.