Cistern
['sɪstən] or ['sɪstɚn]
Definition
(noun.) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater.
(noun.) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet.
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Definition
(n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
(n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reservoir, tank.
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Definition
n. any receptacle for holding water or other liquid: a reservoir: in a steam-engine the vessel surrounding the condenser.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a cistern, denotes you are in danger of trespassing upon the pleasures and rights of your friends. To draw from one, foretells that you will enlarge in your pastime and enjoyment in a manner which may be questioned by propriety. To see an empty one, foretells despairing change from happiness to sorrow.
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Examples
- Again, plac e the magnet in a wooden vessel, and then set the vessel afloat in a tub or cistern of still water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If now the air pressure in the tube is restored, the water in the tube sinks again to the level of that in the cistern. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If an empty pipe is placed in a cistern of water, the water in the pipe does not rise above the level of the water in the cistern. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The condenser stood in a large cold-water cistern, and the weight of the masonry and the cistern greatly detracted from the boat’s buoyancy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When, however, the pressure within the tube is reduced, the liquid rises because of the unbalanced pressure which acts on the water in the cistern. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The waiter brought it in this morning, discovered at the bottom of an empty cistern--such is Fate! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From a reservoir, spring, or cistern of water, the water was discharged downward into a long pipe of small diameter, and from thence into a shorter pipe governed by a stop-cock. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Said Sir William: It is going to be a most valuable, practical affair--as valuable as water-cisterns to people whether they had or had not systems of water-pipes and water-supply. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A compressor having tanks or cisterns in the cellar filled with cool or cold air may be set to work to reduce the temperature of the house and fan the inmates with a refreshing breeze. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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