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预定,预约,保留,贮藏,缄默

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reservation \Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F.
   r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See {Reserve}.]
   1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or
      withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith.

            With reservation of an hundred knights. --Shak.

            Make some reservation of your wrongs. --Shak.

   2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or
      not given up or brought forward. --Dryden.

   3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use,
      as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]

   4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. --Shak.

   5. (Law)
      (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is
          reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse
          before.
      (b) A proviso. --Kent.

   Note: This term is often used in the same sense with
         exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.

   6. (Eccl.)
      (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for
          purposes of devotion and for the communion of the
          absent and sick.
      (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope
          reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

   {Mental reservation}, the withholding, or failing to
      disclose, something that affects a statement, promise,
      etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its
      import.

资料来源 : WordNet®

reservation
     n 1: a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: {reserve}]
     2: a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he
        recommended her without any reservations" [syn: {qualification}]
     3: an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something
        wholeheartedly [syn: {mental reservation}, {arriere pensee}]
     4: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the
        services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made
        the booking" [syn: {booking}]
     5: the written record or promise of an arrangement by which
        accommodations are secured in advance
     6: something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a
        seat on a plane etc.)
     7: the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future
        occasion