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tank
(tăngk)n.
1.
a. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.
b. The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.
2. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.
3. A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.
4. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.
5. A tank top.
6. Slang A jail or jail cell.
v. tanked, tank·ing, tanks
v.tr.
To place, store, or process in a tank.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verb: Informal To suffer a sudden decline or failure: The stock market tanked yesterday.
tank up
Idiom: 1. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication.
2. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline.
in the tank
1. In reserve: a runner who didn't have enough in the tank to hold the lead.
2. In a state of decline or failure: Stocks have been in the tank for months.
3. Enthusiastically partial; strongly favoring: a reporter accused of being in the tank for a candidate.
[Partly from an Indic source such as Gujarati ṭāṃkhī, cistern, and ṭāṃkhī,ṃ, reservoir, or Marathi ṭāṃkeṃ, cistern, reservoir (all from Prakrit ṭaṅka, ditch, reservoir, of unknown origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin *stanticāre; see stanch1). Noun, sense 4, from the fact that in WWI the British army tried to conceal the development and transport of such armored vehicles by referring to them as water tanks in documents and communications.]
tank′ful′ (-fo͝ol′) n.
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tank
(tæŋk)n
1. a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases: tanks for storing oil.
2. (Military)
a. an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
b. (as modifier): a tank commander; a tank brigade.
3. dialect Brit and US a reservoir, lake, or pond
4. (Photography) photog
a. a light-tight container inside which a film can be processed in daylight, the solutions and rinsing waters being poured in and out without light entering
b. any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
5. (Law) slang chiefly
a. a jail
b. a jail cell
6. (Units) Also called: tankful the quantity contained in a tank
7. (Civil Engineering) Austral a dam formed by excavation
vb
8. (tr) to put or keep in a tank
9. (intr) to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
10. slang to defeat heavily
11. (Stock Exchange) (intr) informal to fail, esp commercially
12. (Commerce) (intr) informal to fail, esp commercially
[C17: from Gujarati tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre (unattested) to block, stanch]
ˈtankless adj
ˈtankˌlike adj
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tank
(tæŋk)n.
1. a large container or structure for holding a liquid or gas.
2. an armored combat vehicle, moving on caterpillar treads and usu. armed with a cannon mounted inside a rotating turret.
3. a prison cell for more than one occupant, esp. for groups of new prisoners.
4. a natural or artificial pond, esp. for storing water.
5. tank top.
v.t. 6. to put or store in a tank.
v.i. 7. Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail: The movie tanked at the box office.
[1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up; adopted as an early cover name for the military vehicle during manufacture in England (1915)]
tank′less, adj.
tank′like`, adj.
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tank
- May have come from Gujarati tanku, or Marathi tanke, "underground cistern," from Sanskrit tadaga, "pond."See also related terms for pond.
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tank
Past participle: tanked
Gerund: tanking
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Tank
A term sometimes applied to a pond used to collect and hold water for livestock.
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| Noun | 1. |  tank - an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treadsarmored vehicle, armoured vehicle - a vehicle that is protected by armor plate cannon - heavy gun fired from a tank gun enclosure, gun turret, turret - a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation military vehicle - vehicle used by the armed forces panzer - an armored vehicle or tank tracked vehicle - a self-propelled vehicle that moves on tracks armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| 2. |  tank - a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquidsaquarium, fish tank, marine museum - a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals water tank, cistern - a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet gas holder, gasometer - a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel reservoir - tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) septic tank - large tank where solid matter or sewage is disintegrated by bacteria vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | |
| 3. | tank - as much as a tank will hold containerful - the quantity that a container will hold | |
| 4. |  tank - a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulkfreight car - a railway car that carries freight | |
| 5. | tank - a cell for violent prisoners | |
| Verb | 1. | tank - store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it store - find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some" |
| 2. | tank - consume excessive amounts of alcohol | |
| 3. | tank - treat in a tank; "tank animal refuse" |
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tank
noun
3. armoured vehicle, Panzer (German), armoured car, combat vehicle soldiers backed up by tanks
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tank
[tæŋk]A. N
1. (= container) (for liquid) → tanque m, depósito m; (large) → cisterna f (Aut) → depósito m (Sp), tanque m (esp LAm)
fuel tank → depósito m (de combustible)
fish tank → acuario m
petrol or > gas tank (US) → depósito m (de gasolina)
water tank (for village, in house) → depósito m de agua; (on lorry) → cisterna f
see also septic, think D
fuel tank → depósito m (de combustible)
fish tank → acuario m
petrol or > gas tank (US) → depósito m (de gasolina)
water tank (for village, in house) → depósito m de agua; (on lorry) → cisterna f
see also septic, think D
2. (also tankful) (= quantity) → depósito m
B. CPD tank car N (US) → vagón m cisterna
tank engine N → locomotora f ténder
tank top N → chaleco m cerrado
tank wagon N (Rail) → vagón m cisterna (Aut) → camión m cisterna
tank engine N → locomotora f ténder
tank top N → chaleco m cerrado
tank wagon N (Rail) → vagón m cisterna (Aut) → camión m cisterna
tank up VI + ADV (with fuel) → llenar el tanque (with de) (with alcohol) → emborracharse (on bebiendo)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tank
(tӕŋk) noun2. a heavy steel-covered vehicle armed with guns. tanque de guerra
ˈtanker noun1. a ship or large lorry for carrying oil. petrolero
2. an aircraft used to transport fuel etc. avión cisterna
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tank
→ depósito , tanqueMultilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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tank
n (for oxygen) tanque m, tubo, cilindro (para oxígeno)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.