Reservoir vs. Pond

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.

Pondnoun

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

Pondnoun

An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

Pondnoun

(colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

Pondverb

(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

Pondverb

(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

Pondverb

(intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.

Pondverb

To ponder.

Pondnoun

A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.

Pondverb

To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

Pondverb

To ponder.

Pondnoun

a small lake;

Pond

A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g.