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tank
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tank has 5 senses
- tank(n = noun.artifact) armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank - an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads; Array is a kind of armored vehicle, armoured vehicle, military vehicle, tracked vehicle
- tank(n = noun.artifact) storage tank - a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids; Array has particulars: aquarium, fish tank, marine museum, cistern, water tank, gas holder, gasometer, gas tank, gasoline tank, petrol tank, reservoir, septic tank, hot-water heater, hot-water tank, water heater
- tank(n = noun.quantity) tankful - as much as a tank will hold; Array is a kind of containerful
- tank(n = noun.artifact) tank car - a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk; Array is a kind of freight car
- tank(n = noun.artifact) cooler - a cell for violent prisoners; Array is a kind of cell, jail cell, prison cell
has parts: cannon, gun enclosure, gun turret, turret
has particulars: panzer
is a kind of vessel
Derived forms verb tank3, verb tank1
Derived form verb tank1
Verb tank has 3 senses
- tank(v = verb.possession) Array - store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it; Array is one way to store
- tank(v = verb.consumption) Array - consume excessive amounts of alcohol; Array is one way to booze, drink, fuddle
- tank(v = verb.change) Array - treat in a tank; "tank animal refuse" is one way to process, treat
Derived forms noun tank2, noun tank3, noun tankage3
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Derived form noun tank2
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
tank, n.
A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds. [1913 Webster]
- A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. [1913 Webster]
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]"We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home.""The tanks are full and the grass is high." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- a heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an
armored division . [PJC] - a jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a large receptacle or storage chamber usu. for liquid or gas.
2 a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a tracked carriage.
3 a container for the fuel supply in a motor vehicle.
4 the part of a locomotive tender containing water for the boiler.
5 a Ind. & Austral. a reservoir. b dial. esp. US a pond.
--v. (usu. foll. by up) esp. Brit.
1 tr. fill the tank of (a vehicle etc.) with fuel.
2 intr. & colloq. tr. (in passive) drink heavily; become drunk.
--n.
1 a large receptacle or storage chamber usu. for liquid or gas.
2 a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a tracked carriage.
3 a container for the fuel supply in a motor vehicle.
4 the part of a locomotive tender containing water for the boiler.
5 a Ind. & Austral. a reservoir. b dial. esp. US a pond.
--v. (usu. foll. by up) esp. Brit.
1 tr. fill the tank of (a vehicle etc.) with fuel.
2 intr. & colloq. tr. (in passive) drink heavily; become drunk.
Idiom
tank engine a railway engine carrying fuel and water receptacles in its own frame, not in a tender. tank-farming the practice of growing plants in tanks of water without soil. tank top a sleeveless, close-fitting upper garment with a scoop-neck.
Derivative
tankful n. (pl. -fuls). tankless adj.
Etymology
Gujurati tankh etc., perh. f. Skr. tadaga pond
THESAURUS
tank
Pullman, Pullman car, archives, armory, arsenal, artificial lake, attic, bag, baggage car, bank, barrel, basement, basket, bay, bayou lake, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bottle, box, box up, boxcar, bunker, buttery, caboose, can, capsule, car, cargo dock, carriage, carton, case, cask, cellar, chair car, chest, cistern, closet, coach, coal car, conservatory, covered waggon, crate, crib, cupboard, dam, day coach, dead water, depository, depot, dike, diner, dinghy, dining car, dock, drawer, drawing room, dump, encase, encyst, etang, exchequer, farm pond, fishpond, flat, flatcar, freshwater lake, glacial lake, glory hole, godown, gondola, hamper, hold, hutch, inland sea, jar, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, library, linn, local, loch, locker, lough, luggage van, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mail car, mail van, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, pack, package, palace car, parcel, parlor car, passenger car, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, pot, puddle, rack, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, roomette, sack, salina, salt pond, shelf, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, stack, stack room, stagnant water, standing water, still water, stock room, stockcar, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, sump, supply base, supply depot, tarn, tender, tidal pond, tin, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, truck, van, vat, vault, volcanic lake, waggon, warehouse, water hole, water pocket, well, wine cellarROGET THESAURUS
tank
Store
N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
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