The quality or state of resembling. / That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. / A comparison; a simile. / Probability; verisimilitude.

The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception. / Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

To keep back; to retain. / To keep in store for future or special use. / To book in advance; to make a reservation. / (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

A principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged. / Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

A place where anything is kept in store. / A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.

(transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.

The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick. / The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. / (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

simple past tense and past participle of reserve