tanker

See also tänker

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)

Noun

tanker (plural tankers)

An Oil Tanker

1. A vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.

   Oil tanker. Ship designed to carry crude oil and petroleum.

   Petrol tanker. Truck with a container for transporting fuel.

2. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
3. (surfing slang) A longboard.

   1997: I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip — Neal Miyake, World Surf Day 1997 [1]

Synonyms

• (military): trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
• (military): zipperhead (Canadian military slang)

Translations

vessel

Chinese: Mandarin: 油船 (zh) (yóuchuán) Finnish: tankkeri (fi), öljytankkeri (fi) (oil tanker), säiliöalus (fi), säiliölaiva (fi) French: navire-citerne (fr) m., pétrolier (fr) m., tanker (fr) m. German: Tanker (de) m.

Japanese: タンカー (ja) (tankā) Korean: 탱커 (ko) (taengkeo) Russian: танкер (ru) (tánker) m. Spanish: buque cisterna (es) m. (tanker ship), camión cisterna (es) m. (tank truck), avión cisterna (es) m. (tanker plane) Volapük: cubanaf (vo)

member of a tank crew

Czech: tankista (cs) m. Finnish: panssarimies (fi) French: tankiste (fr) m. and f.

German: Panzersoldat (de) m. Russian: танкист (ru) (tankíst) m.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tankər/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ɐ̯]

Noun

tanker c.

1. mind (judgement, opinion, or view)
2. plural indefinite of tanke

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tǎnker/
• Hyphenation: tan‧ker

Noun

tànker m. (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)

1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Declension

    declension of tanker

	singular	plural
nominative	tanker	tankeri
genitive	tankera	tankera
dative	tankeru	tankerima
accusative	tanker	tankere
vocative	tankeru	tankeri
locative	tankeru	tankerima
instrumental	tankerom	tankerima