tank

See also Tank

English

Wikipedia

A military tank.

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tæŋk/, X-SAMPA: /t{Nk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

1. A closed container for liquids or gases.
2. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
3. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
4. The amount held by a container; a tankful.

   I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.

5. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
6. (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
7. (Southwestern US, chiefly 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.
8. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
9. (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.

Synonyms

• (military fighting vehicle): battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)

Derived terms

Terms derived from tank (noun)

antitank battle tank cavalry tank combat tank cruiser tank empty the tank fast tank fish tank

flame tank flamethrower tank heavy tank infantry tank light tank main battle tank medium tank tankbuster

tank destroyer tank suit tank top tankette tankini think tank

Hypernyms

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle

Hyponyms

• (military fighting vehicle): infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), tankette (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flame tank, flamethrower tank

Coordinate terms

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, tank destroyer, assault gun

Translations

closed container

• Catalan: tanc (ca) m, dipòsit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罐 (cmn) (guàn)

• Danish: tank (da), beholder (da)
• Dutch: vat (nl) n, tank (nl) m
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), tankki (fi)
• German: Tank (de) m, Behälter (de) m
• Greek: δεξαμενή (el) (dexamení) f, δοχείο (el) (docheío) n
• Hebrew: מיכל (he) m
• Icelandic: tankur (is) m
• Interlingua: tank (ia)
• Italian: tanica (it), serbatoio (it)
• Japanese: タンク (ja) (tanku)

• Korean: 탱크 (ko) (taengkeu)
• Macedonian: резервоар (mk) (rezervoár) m
• Malay: tangki (ms)
• Norwegian: tank (no)
• Polish: zbiornik (pl) m
• Portuguese: tanque (pt) m
• Russian: бак (ru) (bak) m, цистерна (ru) (cistɛ́rna) f, ёмкость (ru) (jómkostʹ) f, сосуд (ru) (sosúd) m
• Scottish Gaelic: amar (gd) m
• Swahili: tangi (sw)
• Swedish: tank (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бак (uk) (bak) m
• Welsh: tank (cy), tanc (cy)

open container

• Finnish: allas (fi)
• German: Becken (de) n, Tank (de) m

military fighting vehicle

• Afrikaans: tenk (af)
• Arabic: دبابة (ar) (dabbaaba) f
• Armenian: տանկ (hy) (tank)
• Basque: gerra-gurdi (eu)
• Belarusian: танк (be) (tank) m
• Bulgarian: танк (bg) (tank) m
• Catalan: tanc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坦克 (cmn) (tǎnkè), 坦克車 (cmn), 坦克车 (cmn) (tǎnkèchē)

• Chuvash: танк
• Czech: tank (cs) m
• Danish: kampvogn (da) c
• Dutch: tank (nl) m
• Esperanto: tanko (eo)
• Estonian: tank (et)
• Finnish: panssarivaunu (fi), tankki (fi)
• French: char de combat (fr) m
• Galician: carro de combate (gl) m
• Georgian: ტანკი (ka) (t'anki)
• German: Panzer (de) m
• Greek: άρμα μάχης (el) (árma máchis) n
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: טנק (he) (tanq) m
• Hindi: टैंक (hi) (ṭaink)
• Hungarian: harckocsi (hu), tank (hu)
• Icelandic: skriðdreki (is)
• Indonesian: tank (id)
• Interlingua: tank
• Italian: carro armato (it) m
• Japanese: 戦車 (ja) (せんしゃ, sensha)
• Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha) (戰車 (ko))
• Latin: autocurrus armatus (la) m
• Latvian: tanks (lv)
• Lithuanian: tankas (lt)

• Luxembourgish: Tanks (lb)
• Macedonian: тенк (mk) (tenk) m
• Malay: kereta kebal (ms)
• Marathi: रणगाडा (mr) (raṇagāḍā)
• Navajo: chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí
• Norwegian: stridsvogn (no)
• Persian: تانک (fa) (tânk)
• Polish: czołg (pl) m
• Portuguese: carro de combate (pt) m, tanque (pt) m
• Quechua: tanki (qu)
• Romanian: tanc (ro)
• Russian: танк (ru) (tank) m
• Samogitian: tanks
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тенк (sh) m

  Roman: tenk (sh) m

• Silesian: čoug
• Slovak: tank (sk) m
• Slovene: tank (sl) m
• Spanish: tanque (es) m
• Swahili: tangi (sw)
• Swedish: stridsvagn (sv) c, pansarvagn (sv) c
• Tamil: கவச தாங்கி (ta)
• Thai: รถถัง (th) (rót tăng)
• Turkish: tank (tr)
• Ukrainian: танк (uk) (tank) m
• Urdu: ٹینک (ur) (ṭaink)
• Uzbek: tank (uz)
• Vietnamese: xe tăng (vi)
• Volapük: bländ (vo)
• Walloon: tank (wa) m
• Yakut: тааҥка
• Yiddish: טאנק (yi) (tank) m

reservoir

• Greek: υδροταμιευτήρας (el) (ydrotamieftíras) m
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cisterna (it) f
• Macedonian: резервоар (mk) (rezervoár) m, цистерна (mk) (cistérna) f
• Marathi: टांकें (mr) n

• Russian: водохранилище (ru) (vodoxranílišče) n
• Scottish Gaelic: amar (gd) m
• Telugu: చెరువు (te) (cheruvu)
• Ukrainian: водоймище (uk) (vodójmyšče) n, водосховище (uk) (vodosxóvyšče) n, резервуар (uk) (rezervuár) m

muscular and physically intense person

• Finnish: kaappi (fi) (slang)
• Italian: energumeno (it)

• Swedish: muskelknutte (sv)

gas cylinder for scuba diving

• Italian: bombola (it) f
• Russian: баллон (ru) (ballón) m

• Swedish: dyktub (sv) c

role playing character

• Finnish: tankki (fi)
• Icelandic: tank (is) m

• Russian: танк (ru) (tank) m
• Swedish: tank (sv)

Verb

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."

Anagrams

• Kant

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Czech

Noun

tank m

1. tank, armor

Derived terms

• tankový

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Danish

Etymology

From English tank.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tank

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛŋk/, /tɑŋk/

Noun

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje)

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

Verb

tank

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

Anagrams

• kant

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French

Etymology

From English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑ̃k/

• Audio

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Noun

tank m (plural tanks)

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

Synonyms

• (military tank): char

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taŋk/

Verb

tank

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

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

tank m (invariable)

1. tank (military and container)

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Swedish

tank

Noun

tank c

1. tank (container for liquids)

Declension

Declension of tank

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

Related terms

• bensintank
• flyttank
• mjölktank
• tanka
• tankbil
• tanker
• tankfartyg
• tankvagn

See also

• dunk
• tanke