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Tank
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- 1 A closed container for liquids or gases.
"The propane is stored in these tanks."
- 2 A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- 3 a cell for violent prisoners wordnet
- 4 An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
"The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals."
- 5 A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
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- 6 a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids wordnet
- 7 A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
"The tanks are full and the grass is high."
- 8 an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads wordnet
- 9 The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
"We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank."
- 10 a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk wordnet
- 11 The amount held by a container; a tankful.
"I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York."
- 12 as much as a tank will hold wordnet
- 13 An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
"The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank."
- 14 A reservoir or dam. Australia, India
- 15 A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- 16 A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank. colloquial
- 17 A bouncer or doorman. UK, broadly, dated, slang
- 18 A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
"The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills."
- 19 A prison cell, or prison generally. US, slang
"drunk tank"
- 20 A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank. slang
- 21 Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long."
- 22 Ellipsis of tank top. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"T-BACK COTTON TANK"
- 1 To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
"He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices."
- 2 treat in a tank wordnet
- 3 To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- 4 consume excessive amounts of alcohol wordnet
- 5 To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank. transitive
"Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake."
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- 6 store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it wordnet
- 7 To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
"Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague.""
- 8 To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt. slang
"Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance."
- 9 To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank. slang
- 10 To stand; to tolerate. Singapore, colloquial
- 11 To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden. Singapore, colloquial
Etymology
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”). In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”). In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”). In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.
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