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Adjective reserve has 2 senses
- inactive, reserve - not engaged in military action
Antonym: operational (indirect, via nonoperational)
- reserve, spare - kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
Antonym: necessary (indirect, via unnecessary)
Noun reserve has 7 senses
- modesty, reserve - formality and propriety of manner
--1 is a kind of propriety, properness, correctitude
--1 has particulars: demureness
- reserve, backlog, stockpile - something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
--2 is a kind of accumulation
--2 has particulars: bank; fuel level; reserve account, reserve fund
- substitute, reserve - an athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out
--3 is a kind of athlete, jock
--3 is a member of bench
--3 has particulars: bench warmer; pinch hitter
- reserve - (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
--4 is a kind of indefinite quantity
--4 has particulars: pulmonary reserve
- reservation, reserve - a district that is reserved for particular purpose
--5 is a kind of administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
--5 has particulars: indian reservation; preserve
- military reserve, reserve - armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
--6 is a kind of military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
--6 has members: reservist
- reserve, reticence, taciturnity - the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
--7 is a kind of uncommunicativeness
Verb reserve has 4 senses
- reserve - hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"
--1 is one way to withhold, keep back
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve - give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"
--2 is one way to assign, allot, portion
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- reserve - obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
--3 is one way to request, bespeak, call for, quest
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
- reserve, hold, book - arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
--4 is one way to request, bespeak, call for, quest
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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