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Dictionary » R » Reserves Reservesreserve 1. (Science: geology) Typically used to describe the amount of a substance which can be extracted from the earth with current technology at current prices. Typically much smaller than resources. 2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. (Tillotson) 3. That which is excepted; exception. Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. (Rogers) 4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. (prior) The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. (Hawthorne) 5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose. 6. A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. 7. Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. Reserve air. Synonym: reservation, retention, limitation, backwardness, reservedness, coldness, restraint, [[ 3de shyness]], coyness, modesty. Origin: F. Reserve. ![]()
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Results from our forumdamaging adipocytes... of mechanical damage to the fat tissue? my guess the adipocytes break off,or their fat breaks off into the bloodstream and thus draining the fat reserves more? thx for the replies
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Re: Converting Glucose to Fat or ATP?... It signals to cells to take up the glucose in the blood. Some glucose is needed immediately for energy. The rest is stored away in glycogen reserves in the liver and muscle. When the glycogen stores are filled, leftover glucose is converted into fat, and stored in that way (this process ...
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Darwin and Racism... - if fantastic ancestors aliens not warning in advance and not just settle us a couple of dozen Cambrian mermaids from the strategic reserves: (http://spacenoology.agro.name/?page_id=4912) :D
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Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... - if fantastic ancestors aliens not warning in advance and not just settle us a couple of dozen Cambrian mermaids from the strategic reserves: (http://spacenoology.agro.name/?page_id=4912) :D
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Re: Human Inferiority... including the extinction of other species. However, unlike other species, we can learn. Here in New Zealand, we are generating more and more reserves, sanctuaries, sheltered areas, and so on, to conserve nature and endangered species. Only humanity of all the animals on Earth, has ever even ...
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