reservoir
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a large or extra supply of something
a reservoir of talent
Types & categories
- supply hypernym
Sense 2 noun
lake used to store water for community use
Types & categories
- lake hypernym
- Lake Mead instance hyponym
- Lake Powell instance hyponym
- Lake Volta instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- water supply part holonym
Sense 3 noun
tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
Types & categories
- storage tank hypernym
- cistern hyponym
- sump hyponym
- water tower hyponym
Sense 4 noun
anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
Types & categories
- thing hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | supply |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | water supply |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lake |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Lake Mead |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Lake Powell |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Lake Volta |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | storage tank |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cistern |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sump |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | water tower |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | thing |