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# reserve

«reserve» in Mova's school dictionary: **To ask for something, like a table or a seat, to be kept…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (reserve, reserves, reserved, reserving); noun (a reserve, reserves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To ask for something, like a table or a seat, to be kept for you: "We reserved a table." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m1)

2) To keep something for later or for a special use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m2)

3) As a noun, an extra amount kept in case it is needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m3)

4) A protected area of land for wild animals and plants: "a nature reserve". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m4)

5) In sport, a player who waits to come on if needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m5)

6) Reserve can also mean a quiet, careful way of not showing your feelings or talking much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families reserve tables, tickets or campsites. In science and geography, nature reserves protect wildlife. In sport a reserve player sits on the bench. In maths and money, a reserve is an amount kept back. Phrases: nature reserve, in reserve, reserve a seat, reserved seat.

### examples

- We reserved a table at the restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x1)
- These seats are reserved for older people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x2)
- We saw otters at the nature reserve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x3)
- He was a reserve for the football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x4)
- Keep some water in reserve for the walk home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x5)
- Can I reserve the book at the library? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x6)
- The camel's hump stores a reserve of fat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x7)
- "He weren't zackly drowndid, honey," replied the old man, With an air of cautious reserve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reserve/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: reserve, reserved. The noun is also "reservation" for a booking. "Reserved" can also mean quiet and shy about showing feelings. In the USA, "reservation" is also land set aside for Native American nations. In maths: if you keep 5 of 20 sweets in reserve, you can use 15 now.

### In the corpora

- [Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/)
- [Nature reserves and national parks protect wild plants and animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/19/)
- [That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.559/)
- [Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1027/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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