Reservoir vs Damp - What's the difference?
reservoir | damp |
A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts.
A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
A supply or source of something.
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, title= Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
:* O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear -
(obsolete) Pertaining to or affected by noxious vapours; dejected, stupified.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 522-3:
Moisture; humidity; dampness.
(archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
* Milton
(archaic) Dejection or depression.
* Joseph Addison
* J. D. Forbes
(archaic, or, historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
(archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.
(archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
:* To damp your tender hopes -
:* Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug -
:* How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! -
:* The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. -
:* Hollow rollers damp vibration. - [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204]
As nouns the difference between reservoir and damp
is that reservoir is reservoir while damp is steam.reservoir
English
Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Derived terms
* water reservoir * receiving reservoir * oil reservoir * petroleum reservoirdamp
English
Adjective
(er)- The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
- The paint is still damp , so please don't touch it.
- All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp .
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)/(l)Derived terms
* dampen * dampnessSee also
*Noun
- Night with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
- Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, / A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
- It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
