<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.</li><li>to retain or secure by express stipulation.</li><li>to set apart for a particular use, purpose, service, etc.</li><li>to keep for oneself.</li><li>to retain (the original color) of a surface, as on a painted ceramic piece.</li><li>to save or set aside (a portion of the Eucharistic elements) to be administered, as to the sick, outside of the Mass or communion service.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Finance: cash, or assets readily convertible into cash, held aside, as by a corporation, bank, state or national government, etc., to meet expected or unexpected demands.</li><li>something kept or stored for use or need; stock: a reserve of food.</li><li>a resource not normally called upon but available if needed.</li><li>a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose: a forest reserve.</li><li>an act of reserving; reservation, exception, or qualification: I will do what you ask, but with one reserve.</li><li>Military: a fraction of a military force held in readiness to sustain the attack or defense made by the rest of the force.</li><li>the part of a country's fighting force not in active service.</li><li>reserves, the enrolled but not regular components of the U.S. Army.</li><li>formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship; avoidance of familiarity or intimacy with others: to conduct oneself with reserve.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.</li><li>of or relating to the animal awarded second place in livestock shows: the reserve champion steer.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>