Cisterns Synonyms

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Synonyms for Cisterns

cisternae
(Cytology) One of the saclike vesicles that comprise the endoplasmic reticulum.
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wells
Any of various shafts or deep enclosed spaces resembling a well
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vessels
The definition of a vessel is a large ship or boat. It also refers to a container, especially one that is used to hold liquids.
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vats
A liquid containing a vat dye
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tubs
(Mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
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tanks
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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sacs
(UK, law, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
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reservoirs
(Medicine) An organism or population that directly or indirectly transmits a pathogen while being virtually immune to its effects.
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chests
A box with a lid and, often, a lock, for storing or shipping things
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cavities
A hollow area within the body:
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ponds
A still body of water smaller than a lake.
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Cisterns Sentence Examples

  • Kazvin has many baths and cisterns fed by underground canals.

  • It contains several cisterns, excavated in the rock.

  • The reburnt and cooled char is collected and sent back to the char cisterns.

  • A few fragments of undoubtedly Roman pottery and some Roman coins have been found there, but the cisterns and the ruins of houses are probably of later date (P. Calcara, Descrizione dell' Isola di Linosa, Palermo, 1851, 29).

  • There are no streams near the ruins, and the water-supply was derived from cisterns and from a few pools now filled with soil and vegetation.

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