(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
(5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
(7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
(11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
(12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
(13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
(14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
(16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
(17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
Reservist
Definition:
(n.) A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(2) Lack of support for reservists is especially worrying because of plans to increase the army’s reliance on reservists, the report says.
(3) An enlisted US army reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday.
(4) Many will be involved in this effort, from FBI agents to intelligence operatives to the reservists we have called to active duty.
(5) "The job we are asking our reservists to do is changing," Hammond said.
(6) Sung-ha Joo, in his 40s, was a reservist artillery officer, in the North Korean military before he left in 2001.
(7) But recruiting the extra personnel is proving a difficult task, and though reservists have played an important role supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has taken a heavy toll on their families and employers.
(8) A control group of US Army reservists showed 1 of 25 (4%) to have positive Amsler chart tests.
(9) An army reservist who collapsed and died after an SAS selection exercise suffered multiple organ failure, a coroner has been told.
(10) In July three army reservists died during an SAS selection training course in the Brecon Beacons after carrying heavy packs in temperatures of 30C.
(11) Crookes, 26, from Halesowen, West Midlands, was a reservist on his third deployment to Afghanistan, having volunteered for service in 2007 and 2009.
(12) Johnson, an enlisted US army reservist, deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday.
(13) Rp578, UK infantry corporal, Afghanistan and Iraq I served on both Iraq and Afghanistan as an Infantry NCO, being called up as a reservist on both occasions.
(14) It was predicted that anxiety would be greater in reservist nurses who were anticipating mobilization during Operation Desert Storm.
(15) According to the same sources, former reservists from the opposition towns of Mladenovac, just south of Belgrade, and Kragujevac and Cacak in central Serbia came ready to fight in a strategy organised by Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic.
(16) Smith, 32, from Hawick, Roxburghshire, was a reservist deployed in Iraq in June 2003.
(17) SAS reservists have traditionally been used as a long-range reconnaissance force but in recent years have served alongside SAS regulars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
(18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
(19) Among those freed Wednesday are people jailed in connection to the killings of Israelis including a reservist and a Nazi death camp survivor, according to a list provided by Israel's prison service.
(20) Flying over the same spot again a few days later, Commander Jason Tieman, a reservist in the National Coastguard, explains over the thudding din of the 19-seater Sikorsky helicopter that the big problem was spotting the oil: "It's very hard to see from the air.