Reserve vs Accommodation - What's the difference?
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(label) Restriction.
# The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation; exception.
# Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
# A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
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, title= # 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.
# (label) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US (reservation).)
# (label) A body of troops kept 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.
# (label) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
# Wine held back and aged before being sold.
(label) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
# (label) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
# (label) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
To keep back; to retain.
To keep in store for future or special use.
* Jonathan Swift
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
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# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
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# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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# A loan of money.
# An accommodation bill or note.
# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
As an adjective reserve
is reserved.As a noun accommodation is
(senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.reserve
English
Noun
(en noun)- .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
Synonyms
* reservation, res * (restraint of freedom in words or actions) self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity * substitute * (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples) rezDerived terms
* Federal Reserve * Federal Reserve System * nature reserve * reserve bank * reserve price * wildlife reserveVerb
- We reserve the right to make modifications.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
Anagrams
* * * ----accommodation
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
- The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
- To come to terms of accommodation .
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .