Reservation vs Modification - What's the difference?
reservation | modification | Related terms |
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).
(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (reserve)).
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
an alteration or adjustment to something
* Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
* Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
* The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )
Reservation is a related term of modification.
As nouns the difference between reservation and modification
is that reservation is reservation while modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.reservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have reservations about your intentions.
