See Also: Weary(medicine)
weary(1)(dictionary)
weary(2)(dictionary)
world-weary(dictionary)
weary 2, verb(dictionary)
weary 1, adjective(dictionary)
Reservoir(health)
reservoir(medicine)
gas reservoir(encyclopedia)
reservoir(dictionary)

weary(1) (iou) and gas reservoir (sh)


weary(1) (iou)



weary adjective & adverb.

A. adjective.
I.
Suffering from loss of strength and need for rest as a result of continued exertion or endurance; tired, fatigued, now esp. intensely so; expressing extreme tiredness or fatigue. OE.
weary Willie [see TIRED Tim] a tramp, a work-shy person.
O. Manning The weary faces of Other passengers. I. Murdoch We are both weary, we have not the energy for real communication.
Depressed, dispirited. (Foll. by of, with.) OE.
Shakespeare Macbeth So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune.
Dismayed at the continued presence or recurrence of a thing; exhausted in patience with. Formerly also foll. by in, to do. ME.
J. B. Priestley She was weary of stopping to ask the way. A. P. Herbert Weary we are of blood and noise and pain.
Of a person: frail, sickly. Scot. & dial. LME.
II.
Fatiguing, exhausting. Now passing into sense 6. ME.
R. Kipling Now we have walked a weary way.
Irksome, wearisome, tedious. LME.
A. Uttley So the weary time dragged on.
a. Sad, sorrowful. Scot. & north. E18.
b. Vexatious, irritating. Scot. & north. L18.
b. adverb. Extremely, very. Scot. & dial. OE.
wearily adverb LME.
weariness noun (a) the state or condition of being weary; (b) a thing that produces this, a cause of tiredness or fatigue: OE.
wearyish adjective (rare) wearisome E17-E18.

gas reservoir (sh)




In geology, a naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation, that traps and holds natural gas.

The reservoir rock must be permeable and porous to contain the gas, and it has to be capped by impervious rock in order to form an effective seal and prevent the gas from escaping. Typical reservoir rocks are sedimentary and include sands, sandstones, arkoses, and fissured limestones and dolomites. In the U.S. and certain Other countries, artificial gas reservoirs are being created from depleted oil and gas fields, particularly near salt domes and in sedimentary basins, to store gas during periods of low consumption for later use.