Reserve \Re*serve"\, n. [F. r['e]serve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. --Addison.
2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. --Tillotson.
3. That which is excepted; exception.
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. --Rogers.
4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. --Prior.
The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. --Hawthorne.
5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
6. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. (b) troops trained but released from active service, retained as a formal part of the military force, and liable to be recalled to active service in cases of national need (see {Army organization}, above). [1913 Webster +PJC]
7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
8. (Finance) (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; specif.: (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the {real reserve}. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law (in 1913) to be not less than 15 per cent (--U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the
{reinsurance fund} or the
{self-insurance fund}. For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the
{initial reserve}, and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the
{terminal reserve}. For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the
{insurance reserve}, and the terminal reserve is then called the
{investment reserve}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
10. (Calico Printing) A resist. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
11. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reserved}. (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. {Reserving}.] [F. r['e]server, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See {Serve}.] 1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. ``I have reserved to myself nothing.'' --Shak.
2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain; to make a reservation[7]. --Gen. xxvii. 35.
Note: In cases where one person or party makes a request to an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both to the action of the person making the request, and to the action of the agent who takes the approproriate action (such as a notation in a book of reservations) to be certain that the accommodation is available at that time. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job xxxviii. 22,23.
Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift.
3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
Resist \Re*sist"\, n. 1. (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called {reserve}. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. --F. C. Calvert.
2. (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain action; specif.: A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, or of a silicon wafer, to prevent the action on it of acid, other chemical agents, or any other process such as irradiation or deposition, which would modify the surface if not protected. The resist is usually applied or in some way formed into a pattern so that the underlying surface may be modified in a complementary pattern. [PJC]
Mr Molyneaux, briefed in advance of the revelation, appeared ready to reserve judgment. But trust - or rather the absence of it - has always been the deciding factor in efforts to restore peace to Northern Ireland.
Overcoming traditional English reserve, many suburbanites shared cars or were seen hitchhiking to work.
Davis, who owns 2.9 percent of NWA's common shares, said in a statement that he supports the proposed transaction, but will reserve final judgement until he meets with his advisers.
"We reserve the right to impose our standards of taste," said Wayne Ethridge, a land planner, who is sponsoring the contest with Herschell Ross.
As a result, more than 80% of M2 is not subject to reserve requirements and therefore is not directly controllable by the Fed.
Nevertheless, the Fed's decision to arrange the unexpected two-day reserve drain shortly before a Treasury auction "has to be viewed as suspicious," said Dana Johnson, chief money market economist at First National Bank of Chicago.
Miners in the Maritime Region (around Vladivostok) are not providing for the power-engineering workers' requirements, and there aren't any deliveries from other areas. 'Power stations are already using up reserve stocks of coal.
Business Day said President F.W. de Klerk is expected to call for the scrapping of the Group Areas Act, which segregates neighborhoods by race, and the Land Acts, which reserve 87 percent of the country's land for the white minority.
Otherwise banks probably would have to immediately reserve for the money they contribute to the $5.2 billion credit.
His comments and those of 10 other reserve officers appear in "Commanders' Reflections," a 34-page booklet published by the Kibbutz Artzi movement that unites 85 of Israel's 160-odd kibbutzim, or communal farms.
But, he adds, "If there's a large reserve, it would be insane to leave it."
The increased reserve is to cover delinquent real estate loans and other nonperforming assets, the bank holding company said.
California had a $1.3 billion reserve that Deukmejian expects to be depleted by the end of the budget year.
Summit Savings Association said it added $435,000 to its loan-loss reserve and restated results for its fiscal third quarter, ended March 31, producing a loss for the period.
There was a wide railway reserve going through the city and Stewart (Elliott, his long-time British associate) said why not use that. 'No sane person has invested money in a railway this century.
Net income in the fourth quarter fell sharply, partly because of the $51 million charge to reserve for losses in an insurance operation that was closed in 1985.
In an interview with The Associated Press in 1983, Adamson said he had been told of a plot by Somalis to murder him in the hope that with him gone, authorities would be under little pressure to police the reserve.
Kohlberg Kravis is said to have an enormous cash reserve at its disposal.
By then you can draw your own conclusions from a totally adult play, a tribute I normally reserve for Harley Granville Barker who also performed at the Court. The professor is played by David Suchet, the student by Lia Williams.
On Saturday evening, about 2,000 residents gathered at the boundary of the nearby Kahnawake reserve and shouted racist slurs at Mohawks.
And riders reserve a special brand of courtesy for one another.
U.S. reserve assets fell $264 million in the three months through October to $47.17 billion, the Treasury said.
For example, yesterday was the final day of a two-week period in which banks must settle their reserve positions with the Federal Reserve.
Harkin has argued that more pressure should be exerted on other nations for greater support, and he has criticized Bush's decision to activate reserve units.
Chemical boosted its loan-loss reserve during the quarter by $105.6 million ($40 million of that amount was for Texas Commerce), compared with an $87.2 million boost a year ago.
Care Enterprises said that the litigation relates to the payment of start-up costs at certain facilities in the Southwest, and that it had established a $7.4 million reserve to cover any potential losses and charges from the dispute.
Then they lay down on the steps of city hall for what they called a "die-in." At Lafayette Park, about six blocks from city hall and the Superdome, officials had set up a small stage and sound system for demonstrators to reserve 90-minute slots.
In the report on reserve assets, the nation's holdings of foreign currencies fell $520 million in June to $13.9 billion; gold reserves fell $1 million in June to $11.069 billion.
He said Bush wanted to test the reserve system to be sure it works.
The package includes a central intelligence-gathering system, a school for narcotics agents and an international reserve pool of narcotics agents and intelligence operatives.