tank

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[edit] English

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A military tank.

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From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭāṅkī), or Marathi  (take). Compare the Arabic verb استنقع (istanqáʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).

In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water (1915).

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tank (plural tanks)

  1. A container for liquids or gases.
  2. the fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
  3. The amount held by a container, =tankful.
    I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to Medicine Hat.
  4. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
  5. (Australian and Indian English) a reservoir or dam.
  6. (American Southwest English, esp Texas), a large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field. By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
  7. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
  8. (gaming, video games, online gaming) In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.

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container
military fighting vehicle
reservoir
muscular and physically intense person
gas cylinder for scuba diving
role playing character

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tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

  1. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
  2. (video games) 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.
  3. To put fuel into a tank
  4. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
    • Farber, Michael, "Swede Success", Sports Illustrated, March 6, 2006. Retrieved on February 5, 2011.
      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."

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tank m.

  1. tank, armor

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From English tank.

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  • (military fighting vehicle): IPA: /taːnk/, [tˢæːŋɡ̊]
  • (storage): IPA: /tank/, [tˢɑŋ̩ˀɡ̊]

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tank

  1. tank (military fighting vehicle)
  2. tank (storage)

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tank m. (plural tanks, diminutive tankje)

  1. tank (military fighting vehicle)
  2. tank (storage)

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tank

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tanken.
  2. imperative of tanken.

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From English tank.

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tank m. (plural tanks)

  1. tank (military vehicle)
  2. tank (container)

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  • (military tank): char

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tank

  1. Imperative singular of tanken.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of tanken.

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English

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tank m. inv.

  1. tank (military and container)

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tank

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tank c.

  1. tank (container for liquids)

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Declension of tank
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tank tanken tankar tankarna
genitive tanks tankens tankars tankarnas

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