Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designated as unavailable except for a certain purpose or user; kept in reserve.
- adjective Given to or marked by self-restraint and reticence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kept for another or future use; retained; kept back.
- Showing reserve in behavior; backward in communicating one's thoughts; not open, free, or frank; distant; cold; shy; coy.
- Retired; secluded.
- In decorative art, left of the color of the background, as when another color is worked upon the ground to form a new ground, the pattern being left of the first color.
- Synonyms Excepted, withheld.
- Restrained, cautious, uncommunicative, unsocial, unsociable, taciturn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency.
- adjective Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reserve . - adjective comparable Slow to reveal
emotion oropinions . - adjective not comparable Set
aside for the use of a particular person or party.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by self-restraint and reticence
- adjective set aside for the use of a particular person or party
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Examples
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Why is the term reserved for people who ostensibly are otherwise dim?
Mike Amato: Why Are Women So 'Bright'? Mike Amato 2011
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Isn't that a term reserved to describe things like the Maoist revolution in China or text messaging and teenage social behaviors?
Peter Abaci, M.D.: Transforming Pain Relief: The First Steps M.D. Peter Abaci 2012
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Why is the term reserved for people who ostensibly are otherwise dim?
Mike Amato: Why Are Women So 'Bright'? Mike Amato 2011
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Isn't that a term reserved to describe things like the Maoist revolution in China or text messaging and teenage social behaviors?
Peter Abaci, M.D.: Transforming Pain Relief: The First Steps M.D. Peter Abaci 2012
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Isn't that a term reserved to describe things like the Maoist revolution in China or text messaging and teenage social behaviors?
Peter Abaci, M.D.: Transforming Pain Relief: The First Steps M.D. Peter Abaci 2012
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Why is the term reserved for people who ostensibly are otherwise dim?
Mike Amato: Why Are Women So 'Bright'? Mike Amato 2011
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Why is the term reserved for people who ostensibly are otherwise dim?
Mike Amato: Why Are Women So 'Bright'? Mike Amato 2011
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Isn't that a term reserved to describe things like the Maoist revolution in China or text messaging and teenage social behaviors?
Peter Abaci, M.D.: Transforming Pain Relief: The First Steps M.D. Peter Abaci 2012
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Isn't that a term reserved to describe things like the Maoist revolution in China or text messaging and teenage social behaviors?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. Peter Abaci 2012
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A "chimpira" is the lowest level of gangster and a term reserved for the most stupid gang members.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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