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Res

noun
Word Frequency: 23.7

Definitions

1.nounThe act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
"The committee authorised the reservation of funds."
2.nounSomething that is withheld or kept back.
3.noun(often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
"I have reservations about your intentions."
4.nounA tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
5.nounAn arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
"I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith."
6.nounThe area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
"A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic."
7.nounThe setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
8.nounA place where anything is kept in store
9.nounA large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
10.nounA small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
11.nounA supply or source of something.
12.nounA species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
13.nounThe place where one lives; one's home.
14.nounA building used as a home.
15.nounThe place where a corporation is established.
16.nounThe state of living in a particular place or environment.
17.nounAccommodation for students at a university or college.
18.nounThe place where anything rests permanently.
19.nounSubsidence, as of a sediment
20.nounThat which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
21.nounA strong will, determination.
22.nounThe state of being resolute.
"His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish."
23.nounA statement of intent, a vow
"By February, most New Year's resolutions are forgotten.   My resolution is to cut back on the fast food this year."
24.nounThe act of discerning detail.
25.noun(computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
"Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance."
26.nounThe number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
"This monitor's maximum resolution is 1600 × 1200."
27.nounThe process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
"name resolution"
28.nounThe act or process of solving; solution.
"the resolution of an equation"
29.nounA formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
"The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority."
30.nounThe separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
31.nounThe degree of fineness of such a separation.
32.nounProgression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
33.nounThe moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
34.nounIn a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
35.verbTo raise from the dead, to bring life back to.
36.verbTo restore to a working state.
37.verbTo bring back to view or attention; reinstate.
38.nounThe act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
39.nounBodysnatching
40.nounA base of Russian espionage operations within a foreign country.

Synonyms

resreserverezbookingmedianmedian striprevivegainrisingresidenceresidencyrayra

Rhymes With

gazemalaisehazeblazedazeblaseappraiseablaze
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