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- noun Plural form of
cistern .
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Sources are unclear as to which of the cisterns is the older.
1. Introduction 1989
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(b) Noting that the cisterns are always black, is there some kind of insulation on them, or is it simply the high volume to surface ratio of the water in the cisterns that keeps the water from heating up intolerably during the daytime?
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And it means using basic technology, such as cisterns under public parks and parking lots -- even in backyards -- to mimic a tree's ability to collect and hold water.
Andy Lipkis: Economic Stimulus Doesn't Have to Mean Ecological Disaster 2009
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At the base of the brain, particularly in the posterior fossa, the sub-arachnoid space is wider than elsewhere, forming "cisterns" filled with cerebro-spinal fluid which supports the cerebral structures.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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They "forsook the fountain of living waters," and the "cisterns" they resolved to possess, prove to be "broken" and empty.
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818
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The roof garden acts as an irrigation system, collecting rainwater in cisterns which is then treated to serve the building.
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The roof garden acts as an irrigation system, collecting rainwater in cisterns which is then treated to serve the building.
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They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water (jer2: 13) ... he asks ...
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Mr. Rabinowitz questioned him about a criminal case opened against him in June 1992, when he was accused of forging documents to obtain five railway cisterns of diesel fuel from an oil refinery in his home town of Ukhta.
Russian Tycoon Faces Grilling Guy Chazan 2011
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So far, the project only has money to do three of the National Mall's eight center grass panels and two of its cisterns.
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