Definitions for TANKS
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1. tanksinterjection

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1. tanks

   A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret. They are a mainstay of modern 20th and 21st century ground forces and a key part of combined arms combat. Modern tanks are versatile mobile land weapons platforms whose main armament is a large-caliber tank gun mounted in a rotating gun turret, supplemented by machine guns or other ranged weapons such as anti-tank guided missiles or rocket launchers. They have heavy vehicle armour which provides protection for the crew, the vehicle's munition storage, fuel tank and propulsion systems. The use of tracks rather than wheels provides improved operational mobility which allows the tank to overcome rugged terrain and adverse conditions such as mud and ice/snow better than wheeled vehicles, and thus be more flexibly positioned at advantageous locations on the battlefield. These features enable the tank to perform well in a variety of intense combat situations, simultaneously both offensively (with direct fire from their powerful main gun) and defensively (as fire support and defilade for friendly troops due to the near invulnerability to common infantry small arms and good resistance against heavier weapons, although anti-tank weapons used in 2022, some of them man-portable, have demonstrated the ability to destroy older generations of tanks with single shots), all while maintaining the mobility needed to exploit changing tactical situations. Fully integrating tanks into modern military forces spawned a new era of combat: armoured warfare. Until the arrival of the main battle tank, tanks were typically categorized either by weight class (light, medium, heavy or superheavy tanks) or doctrinal purpose (breakthrough-, cavalry-, infantry-, cruiser-, or reconnaissance tanks). Some being larger and very heavily armoured and with large guns, while others are smaller, lightly armoured, and equipped with a smaller caliber and lighter gun. These smaller tanks move over terrain with speed and agility and can perform a reconnaissance role in addition to engaging enemy targets. The smaller, faster tank would not normally engage in battle with a larger, heavily armoured tank, except during a surprise flanking manoeuvre.

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1. TANKS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tanks is ranked #47107 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tanks surname appeared 451 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tanks.
   
   86.4% or 390 total occurrences were Black.
   8.8% or 40 total occurrences were White.
   2.2% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.3% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TANKS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4540

Anagrams for TANKS »

1. stank

How to pronounce TANKS?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TANKS in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TANKS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of TANKS in a Sentence

1. Veryan Khan:

   I believe Boko Haram is more than just copying the Islamic State -- their image is being ‘shaped’ at very least in the ISIS media wing, immediately after Baghdadi declared the Islamic State Caliphate, Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau did the same. We then started seeing (in the videos) the Islamic State flags being painted onto Boko Haram’s most prized possessions, their AFVs and tanks, most recently on Feb. 20 during the ops within the Northeastern Nigeria border.

2. German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel:

   We can see that it was right to neither deliver tanks nor G36 assault rifles to Saudi Arabia, now we have to review whether we also need to evaluate defensive armaments more critically in the future.

3. Kurdish Peshmerga:

   What America has given to Iraq in the past, what Iraq borrowed from Russia and U.S., ISIS has, they are using many, many, mines, C4, TNT, snipers, mortars; they have Humvees, they have tanks, they have different kinds of weapons.

4. Don Smith:

   Everything started being blocked off, the SWAT was then later called in, then we had the tanks pull up.

5. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images Lukashenko:

   Why do you support Ukraine, pumping it with weapons instead of sitting down to negotiate as I suggest? You are already discussing sending long range weapons, missiles up to 300 kilometers in range and F 16 fighter jets, state of the art fighter jets, after hundreds of Leopard tanks have gone there. Why are you doing this? You understand this is escalation.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tanks
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html