Reservoir vs Rendezvous - What's the difference?
reservoir | rendezvous |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= A meeting or date.
An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
* Clarendon
(obsolete) retreat; refuge
To meet at an agreed time and place.
As nouns the difference between reservoir and rendezvous
is that reservoir is reservoir while rendezvous is rendezvous.reservoir
English
Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
Derived terms
* water reservoir * receiving reservoir * oil reservoir * petroleum reservoirrendezvous
English
Noun
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
- “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (military) RV (abbreviation)Usage notes
The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.Verb
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
