What does tanker mean?

Definitions for tanker
ˈtæŋ kərtanker

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word tanker.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. oil tanker, oiler, tanker, tank shipnoun

    a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk

  2. tanker, tank drivernoun

    a soldier who drives a tank

Wiktionary

  1. tankernoun

    A vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.

  2. tankernoun

    Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.

  3. tankernoun

    A longboard.

    1997: I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip uE000149824uE001 Neal Miyake, World Surf Day 1997

ChatGPT

  1. tanker

    A tanker is a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft designed to carry or transport bulk quantities of liquids or gases, such as oil or petroleum.

Wikidata

  1. Tanker

    A tanker is a merchant vessel designed to transport liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tanker in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tanker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tanker in a Sentence

  1. Richard Aboulafia:

    Tanker and 787 are the only issues that make sense as driving the panicky mood, i would expect Muilenburg would want to deal with this sooner rather than later.

  2. Eric Zelien:

    Most of our out-of-towners are rescheduling their trips. It’s kind of like when COVID first hit, when you hear oil spill, everyone thinks Exxon Valdez,'' Eric Zelien said, referring to the tanker that ran aground in 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled millions of gallons.

  3. Tom Roseen:

    Despite plus-side equity returns, both fund investors and ETF investors were net redeemers of equity assets, redeeming a net $8.4 billion for the week, shrugging off progress in the U.S.-China trade talks, a nice start to the Q2 earnings season, and general agreement on the U.S. budget and ceiling, investors showed constraint after learning that Iran had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, increasing geopolitical concerns.

  4. Charles Randell:

    It's a big oil tanker and takes a while to turn.

  5. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

    Our pilots do not bomb civil targets, except if you call the thousands of tanker trucks – virtually a living pipeline – a civil target.

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