Reserve

[rɪ'zɜːv] or [rɪ'zɝv]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.

(noun.) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.

(noun.) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions.

(verb.) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; 'We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's'.

(verb.) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; 'they held back their applause in anticipation'.

(verb.) 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'.

校對:梅雷迪思--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.

(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.

(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.

(n.) That which is excepted; exception.

(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

錄入:罗兰

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Keep, hold, retain, husband, set by, lay by, lay up, store up.

n. [1]. Reservation, something reserved.[2]. Constraint, restraint, backwardness, cautious behavior.[3]. Shyness, coyness, bashfulness, taciturnity, modesty, demureness, reservedness.

整理:皮尔斯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Reservation, retention, limitation, withholding, appropriation, coyness,shyness, backwardness, secretiveness, taciturnity, modesty, restraint,constraint

ANT:Abandonment, nonreservation, surrender, absoluteness, openness, frankness,forwardness, pertness, unrestraint, undisguise, transparency,shamelessness_indiscretion

整理:彼得

解釋/意思:

v.t. to keep back: to keep for future or other use: to retain except: to keep safe.—n. that which is reserved: that which is kept for future use: a part of an army or a fleet reserved to assist those engaged in action: that which is kept back in the mind: mental concealment: absence of freedom in words or action: caution: that part of capital which is retained to meet average liabilities.—n. Reservā′tion the act of reserving or keeping back: the withholding from a statement of a word or clause necessary to convey its real meaning: something withheld: safe keeping: a clause proviso or limitation by which something is reserved: (U.S.) a tract of public land reserved for some special purpose as for Indians schools &c.: the practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the eucharist for the communion of the sick: the act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.—adj. Reserv′ative.—n. Reserv′atory.—n.pl. Reserves′ the reserve forces of a country the men composing such.—n. Reser′vist a soldier who belongs to the reserves.—Mental reservation the act of reserving or holding back some word or clause which is necessary to convey fully the meaning really intended by the speaker—distinct from equivocation (L. equivocatio or amphibolia).—Without reserve a phrase implying that a property will be sold absolutely neither the vendor nor any one acting for him bidding it in.

整理:莱斯利