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Reservoir

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

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Cistern 76% connected

An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.

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Sump 76% connected

A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

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Water tower 76% connected

A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

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Lake 76% connected

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder…

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Tank 76% connected

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Containing whole 2

Water 70% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Water supply 70% connected

A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

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Source 92% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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