thing vs reservoir

reservoir vs thing

thing and reservoir both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thing	Yes	No	No	No
reservoir	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reservoir is a hyponym of thing; that is, reservoir is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than thing:

thing: a separate and self-contained entity
reservoir: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

Other hyponyms of thing include content, depicted object, subject, body of water, water, inessential, nonessential, essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite, part, piece, source, building block, unit, variable.

thing (noun)	reservoir (noun)
a separate and self-contained entity	tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
an action	lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water
an artifact	anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
an entity that is not named specifically	a large or extra supply of something
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
a special abstraction
a special objective
a vaguely specified concern
a statement regarded as an object
an event
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
a special situation

Difference between thing and reservoir

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