Reserve vs Await - What's the difference?
reserve | await |
(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.
(formal) To wait for.
* Milton
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To expect.
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
* Milton
To wait on, serve or attend.
To watch, observe.
To wait (on or upon).
To wait; to stay in waiting.
(label) A waiting for; ambush.
(label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
*, Book VII:
*:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
*:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
In obsolete terms the difference between reserve and await
is that reserve is to make an exception of; to except while await is watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.As nouns the difference between reserve and await
is that reserve is restriction while await is a waiting for; ambush.As verbs the difference between reserve and await
is that reserve is to keep back; to retain while await is to wait for.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
* * * ----await
English
Verb
(en verb)- Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
- O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
