tank

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See also: Tank and tänk

English

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A military tank.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæŋk/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋk

Etymology 1

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 टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).

In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water [from 1915] as well as physical resemblance.

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. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
    • (Can we date this quote by Lawson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The tanks are full and the grass is high.
  4. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
  5. The amount held by a container; a tankful.
    I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
  6. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
  7. (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
  8. (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
  9. (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
  10. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
  11. (roleplaying games, board games, video games) 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)
  12. (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
Synonyms
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Hyponyms
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Derived terms
Terms derived from tank (noun)
Descendants
Related terms
Translations
tankful — see tankful
reservoir or dam — see reservoir,‎ dam

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. (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
    • 1913, Geoffrey Martin, Industrial and manufacturing chemistry:
      Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
  4. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
    • 2006 March 6, Michael Farber, “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 4 November 2012:
      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."
  5. (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
    • 2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin)‎[2], retrieved 2017-06-19:
      Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
    • 2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums‎[3], retrieved 2017-06-19:
      A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
    • 2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino‎[4], retrieved 2017-06-19:
      Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.

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Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

  1. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
  2. A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Verb

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

  1. (Singapore, informal) To stand; to tolerate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Interjection

tank

  1. (Gressoney) thank you

Synonyms

References

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. tank, armor

Declension

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Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːnk/, [tˢæːŋɡ̊]
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Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanks)

  1. tank (military fighting vehicle)
Declension
Declension of tank
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tank tanken tanks tanksene
genitive tanks tankens tanks' tanksenes
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tank/, [tˢɑŋ̩ˀɡ̊]

Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanke)

  1. tank (for storage)
  2. (informal) filling station, gas station (US), petrol station (UK), service station
Declension
Declension of tank
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tank tanken tanke tankene
genitive tanks tankens tankes tankenes
Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: tank
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje n)

  1. tank (military armoured fighting vehicle with tracks)
    Synonym: vechtwagen
  2. tank (storage reservoir)
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tank

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of tanken
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of tanken

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

Noun

tank m (plural tanks)

  1. tank (military vehicle)
  2. tank (container, Quebec French)

Synonyms

  • (military tank): char

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tank

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒŋk]
  • Hyphenation: tank

Noun

tank (plural tankok)

  1. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
  2. tank, fuel tank (the fuel reservoir of a vehicle)
    Synonym: üzemanyagtartály
  3. (military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)
    Synonyms: harckocsi, páncélkocsi, páncélos
  4. (photography) developing tank (a closed container used for developing film in a daylight environment)
    Synonym: előhívó tank

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tank tankok
accusative tankot tankokat
dative tanknak tankoknak
instrumental tankkal tankokkal
causal-final tankért tankokért
translative tankká tankokká
terminative tankig tankokig
essive-formal tankként tankokként
essive-modal — —
inessive tankban tankokban
superessive tankon tankokon
adessive tanknál tankoknál
illative tankba tankokba
sublative tankra tankokra
allative tankhoz tankokhoz
elative tankból tankokból
delative tankról tankokról
ablative tanktól tankoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		tanké tankoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		tankéi tankokéi
Possessive forms of tank
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tankom tankjaim
2nd person sing. tankod tankjaid
3rd person sing. tankja tankjai
1st person plural tankunk tankjaink
2nd person plural tankotok tankjaitok
3rd person plural tankjuk tankjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • tank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (uncountable)

  1. tank (military and container)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

  1. a tank (container, as below)

Derived terms

Terms derived from tank

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

  1. a tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
Derived terms
Terms derived from tank

Etymology 2

Verb

tank

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of tanka

References

Swedish

tank

Noun

tank c

  1. tank (container for liquids)

Declension

Declension of tank 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tank tanken tankar tankarna
Genitive tanks tankens tankars tankarnas

See also

Anagrams

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