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Cistern

//ˈsɪs.tɚn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.

    "1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture", Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed."

  2. 2
    an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater wordnet
  3. 3
    In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.

    "It is possible to connect your tank to your toilet cistern and/or garden, so that even if the water is not drinkable it still can be used productively to make major water savings."

  4. 4
    a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet wordnet
  5. 5
    A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
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  1. 6
    a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid wordnet
  2. 7
    The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.

    "By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]"

  3. 8
    A cisterna.
  4. 9
    The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.

Etymology

From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna.

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