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Reservoir vs Rendezvous - What's the difference?

reservoir | rendezvous |

As nouns the difference between reservoir and rendezvous

is that reservoir is reservoir while rendezvous is rendezvous.

reservoir

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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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    Derived terms

    * water reservoir * receiving reservoir * oil reservoir * petroleum reservoir

    rendezvous

    English

    Noun

  • A meeting or date.
  • I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
  • An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
  • “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
  • A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
  • (label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • * Clarendon
  • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
  • (obsolete) retreat; refuge
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (military) RV (abbreviation)

    Usage notes

    The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.

    Verb

  • To meet at an agreed time and place.
  • Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.

    See also

    * rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation English borrowed terms English terms derived from French ----