The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reserve \Re*serve"\, n. [F. r['e]serve.]
   1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
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            However any one may concur in the general scheme, it
            is still with certain reserves and deviations.
                                                  --Addison.
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   2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
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            The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried
            likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a
            continual supply.                     --Tillotson.
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   3. That which is excepted; exception.
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            Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a
            reserve.                              --Rogers.
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   4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness;
      caution in personal behavior.
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            My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined,
            Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. --Prior.
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            The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked
            this scheme.                          --Hawthorne.
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   5. 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.
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   6. (Mil.)
      (a) A body of troops 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.
      (b) troops trained but released from active service,
          retained as a formal part of the military force, and
          liable to be recalled to active service in cases of
          national need (see Army organization, above).
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   7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
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   8. (Finance)
      (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial
          institution specially kept in cash in a more or less
          liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all
          demands which may be made upon it; specif.:
      (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand
          for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great
          Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on
          hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by
          the notes in hand in its own banking department; and
          any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England
          is a part of its reserve. In the United States the
          reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of
          lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which
          is required by law (in 1913) to be not less than 15
          per cent (--U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three
          fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which
          see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks
          that are in reserve cities (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec.
          5192).
      (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets
          necessary for a company to have at any given time to
          enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they
          shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then
          in force as they would mature according to the
          particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is
          always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on
          net premiums. It is theoretically the difference
          between the present value of the total insurance and
          the present value of the future premiums on the
          insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which
          another company could, theoretically, afford to take
          over the insurance, is sometimes called the

   reinsurance fund or the

   self-insurance fund. For the first year upon any policy the
      net premium is called the

   initial reserve, and the balance left at the end of the
      year including interest is the

   terminal reserve. For subsequent years the initial reserve
      is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of
      the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be
      absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment
      of losses is sometimes called the

   insurance reserve, and the terminal reserve is then called
      the

   investment reserve.
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   9. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the
      recipient will get a prize if another should be
      disqualified.
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   10. (Calico Printing) A resist.
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   11. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to
       fix the limits of the deposit.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved.
   (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. r['e]server, L.
   reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See
   Serve.]
   1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or
      disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." --Shak.
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   2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to
      withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to
      keep; to retain; to make a reservation[7]. --Gen. xxvii.
      35.

   Note: In cases where one person or party makes a request to
         an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room
         or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their
         use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both
         to the action of the person making the request, and to
         the action of the agent who takes the approproriate
         action (such as a notation in a book of reservations)
         to be certain that the accommodation is available at
         that time.
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               Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I
               have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job
                                                  xxxviii.
                                                  22,23.
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               Reserve your kind looks and language for private
               hours.                             --Swift.
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   3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Resist \Re*sist"\, n.
   1. (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or
      mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been
      applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the
      color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in
      changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing
      itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes
      prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. --F.
      C. Calvert.
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   2. (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain
      action; specif.: A substance applied to a surface, as of
      metal, or of a silicon wafer, to prevent the action on it
      of acid, other chemical agents, or any other process such
      as irradiation or deposition, which would modify the
      surface if not protected. The resist is usually applied or
      in some way formed into a pattern so that the underlying
      surface may be modified in a complementary pattern.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reserve
    n 1: formality and propriety of manner [syn: modesty,
         reserve]
    2: something kept back or saved for future use or a special
       purpose [syn: reserve, backlog, stockpile]
    3: an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is
       replaced [syn: substitute, reserve, second-stringer]
    4: (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain
       vital functions
    5: a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn:
       reservation, reserve]
    6: armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in
       an emergency [syn: military reserve, reserve]
    7: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything
       more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence,
       taciturnity]
    v 1: hold back or set aside, especially for future use or
         contingency; "they held back their applause in
         anticipation"
    2: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I
       will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside
       time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate,
       earmark, set aside, reserve]
    3: obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to
       reserve a table at Maxim's"
    4: arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in
       advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked
       tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a
       table at Maxim's" [syn: reserve, hold, book]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

279 Moby Thesaurus words for "reserve":
   Indian reservation, abstain, accessible, adjourn, allocate, allot,
   aloofness, alternate, alternative, aplomb, appoint, appropriate to,
   archives, assign, assign to, auxiliary, available, avoidance,
   backlog, backup, backwardness, bank, bashfulness, bespeak,
   bird sanctuary, blankness, book, brachylogy, brevity, brief,
   briefness, brusqueness, cache, charter, chilliness, coldness,
   compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, conserve,
   constraint, continue, contract for, coolness, counterfeit,
   crispness, curtness, defer, delay, destine, detachment, detail,
   detain, discreetness, discretion, dispense with, distance,
   do without, dodging, drag out, dummy, earmark, employ, engage,
   equivalent, ersatz, evasion, expressionlessness, extend, extra,
   fake, fate, forbear, forest preserve, forgo, formality, fresh,
   frigidity, frostiness, fudging, fund, game reserve, guardedness,
   hang fire, hang up, hedging, held back, held in reserve, held out,
   hesitancy, hesitation, hire, hoard, hold, hold back, hold off,
   hold over, hold up, husband, iciness, imitation, impassiveness,
   impassivity, impersonality, in abeyance, in hand, in readiness,
   in reserve, in store, inaccessibility, introversion, inventory,
   keep, keep back, keep by one, keep in hand, keep in reserve,
   keep in store, keep on hand, lay aside, lay by, lay over,
   let alone, library, limit, limitation, lot, make assignments,
   makeshift, mark off, mark out for, mint, mock, modesty, museum,
   national forest, national park, nest egg, new, not touch, not use,
   on call, on hand, on tap, ordain, original, paradise, park, phony,
   pigeonhole, pinch, pithiness, pointedness, portion off, postpone,
   preengage, preserve, pristine, prolong, prorogate, prorogue,
   protract, provisional, proxy, push aside, put apart, put aside,
   put by, put off, put on ice, ready, recess, recruit, refrain,
   register, reinforcements, remoteness, repression, reservation,
   reserve fund, reserve supply, reservedness, reserves, reservoir,
   resource, restraint, restrict, restrict to, restriction, retain,
   reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring disposition, sanctuary,
   save, save up, saved, savings, schedule, secondary, secure,
   self-control, self-restraint, sententiousness, set, set apart,
   set aside, set by, set off, shelve, shift off, shortness, sign on,
   sign up, sign up for, sinking fund, sleep on, something in reserve,
   spare, stand over, standoffishness, state forest, stave off, stay,
   stock, stockpile, stopgap, store, stored, stretch out, subduedness,
   substitute, succinctness, summariness, supply, suppression,
   suspend, suspended, table, taciturnity, tag, take a recess,
   take into employment, take on, temporary, tentative, terseness,
   to spare, token, unaffability, unapplied, unapproachability,
   unbeaten, uncongeniality, unconsumed, undemonstrativeness,
   unemployed, unexercised, unexpansiveness, unexpended,
   unexpended balance, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched,
   untrodden, unused, unutilized, utility, vicarious, waive, waived,
   wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, withdrawal, withdrawnness,
   withhold



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Reserve, WI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wisconsin
   Population (2000):    436
   Housing Units (2000): 252
   Land area (2000):     53.009057 sq. miles (137.292821 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.698415 sq. miles (1.808887 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    53.707472 sq. miles (139.101708 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            67050
   Located within:       Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
   Location:             45.859877 N, 91.372722 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reserve, WI
    Reserve


U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Reserve, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
   Population (2000):    37
   Housing Units (2000): 25
   Land area (2000):     1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            62125
   Located within:       Montana (MT), FIPS 30
   Location:             48.605251 N, 104.463969 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     59258
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reserve, MT
    Reserve


U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Reserve, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
   Population (2000):    387
   Housing Units (2000): 238
   Land area (2000):     0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            62620
   Located within:       New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
   Location:             33.708493 N, 108.760822 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     87830
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reserve, NM
    Reserve


U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Reserve, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
   Population (2000):    100
   Housing Units (2000): 60
   Land area (2000):     0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            59050
   Located within:       Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
   Location:             39.976378 N, 95.564464 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     66434
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reserve, KS
    Reserve


U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Reserve, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana
   Population (2000):    9111
   Housing Units (2000): 3385
   Land area (2000):     16.067055 sq. miles (41.613480 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    1.050370 sq. miles (2.720446 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    17.117425 sq. miles (44.333926 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            64310
   Located within:       Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
   Location:             30.062566 N, 90.553296 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     70084
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reserve, LA
    Reserve