Dam vs. Reservoir

Damnoun

A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding

Damnoun

The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure.

Damnoun

(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.

Damnoun

A reservoir.

Damnoun

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Damnoun

(India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.

Damnoun

Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire).

Damnoun

A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Damverb

To block the flow of water.

Damnoun

A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

Damnoun

A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Damnoun

A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

Damnoun

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Damverb

To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; - generally used with in or up.

Damverb

To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

Damnoun

a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Damnoun

a metric unit of length equal to ten meters

Damnoun

female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock

Damverb

obstruct with, or as if with, a dam;

Damnoun

a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply

Damnoun

a barrier of branches in a stream, constructed by a beaver to provide a deep pool and a lodge.

Damnoun

an artificial pond or reservoir where rain or spring water is collected for storage

Damnoun

a rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.

Damnoun

the female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.

Damverb

build a dam across (a river or lake)

Damverb

hold back or obstruct (something)

Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability.

Reservoirnoun

A place where anything is kept in store

Reservoirnoun

A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.

Reservoirnoun

A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

Reservoirnoun

A supply or source of something.

Reservoirnoun

A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.

Reservoirnoun

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.

Reservoirnoun

A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

Reservoirnoun

a large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans.

Reservoirnoun

a large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host.

Reservoirnoun

a large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve.

Reservoirnoun

a large or extra supply of something;

Reservoirnoun

lake used to store water for community use

Reservoirnoun

tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

Reservoirnoun

anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;

Reservoir

A reservoir (; from French réservoir [ʁezɛʁvwaʁ]) is most commonly an enlarged natural or artificial lake created using a dam to store water. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees.