Reserve vs Restrain - What's the difference?

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Reserve is a related term of restrain.

As an adjective reserve

is reserved.

As a verb restrain is

to control or keep in check.

reserve

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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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# 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.

Synonyms

* reservation, res * (restraint of freedom in words or actions) self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity * substitute * (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples) rez

Derived terms

* Federal Reserve * Federal Reserve System * nature reserve * reserve bank * reserve price * wildlife reserve

Verb

To keep back; to retain.

We reserve the right to make modifications.

To keep in store for future or special use.

This cake is reserved for the guests!

* Jonathan Swift

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

To book in advance; to make a reservation.

I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.

(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

Anagrams

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restrain

English

Verb

(en verb)

To control or keep in check.

To deprive of liberty.

To restrict or limit.

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, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}