Definitions for Tank
tæŋktank

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tank, army tank, armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehiclenoun

   an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads

2. tank, storage tanknoun

   a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids

3. tank, tankfulnoun

   as much as a tank will hold

4. tank car, tanknoun

   a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk

5. cooler, tankverb

   a cell for violent prisoners

6. tankverb

   store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it

7. tankverb

   consume excessive amounts of alcohol

8. tankverb

   treat in a tank

   "tank animal refuse"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tanknoun

   A container for liquids or gases.

2. tanknoun

   The amount held by a container, =tankful.

   I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to Medicine Hat.

3. tanknoun

   In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.

4. tankverb

   To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

5. tankverb

   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.

6. tankverb

   To put fuel into a tank

7. tankverb

   To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

8. tanknoun

   A closed container for liquids or gases.

9. tanknoun

   An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

10. tanknoun

    A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

    The tanks are full and the grass is high.

11. tanknoun

    The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

12. tanknoun

    The amount held by a container; a tankful.

    I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.

13. tanknoun

    An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

14. tanknoun

    A reservoir or dam.

15. tanknoun

    A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.

16. tanknoun

    By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

17. tanknoun

    A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.

18. tanknoun

    a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy

19. tanknoun

    A prison cell, or prison generally.

20. Etymology: 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 (istanqaʿa, " to become stagnant, to stagnate").

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tanknoun

   A large cistern or bason.

   Etymology: tanque, Fr.

   Handle your pruning-knife with dexterity; go tightly to your business: you have cost me much, and must earn it: here’s plentiful provision, rascal; fallading in the garden and water in the tank; and in holy days, the licking of a platter of rice when you deserve it. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tank

   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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tank

   A tank is a large, often metallic container used for storing liquids or gases. It can also refer to an armored, heavily armed military vehicle that moves on continuous tracks and is typically used in frontline battles due to its heavy firepower and strong defensive capabilities. The term "tank" can also be used in video games to refer to a character class that absorbs damage and protects other team members.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tanknoun

   a small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls

2. Tanknoun

   a large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tank

   A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities. Firepower is normally provided by a large-calibre main gun in a rotating turret and secondary machine guns, while heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all primary tasks of the armoured troops on the battlefield. Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army on September 15, 1916 at Flers-Courcelette, during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose. While the French and British built thousands of tanks between them, Germany developed and brought into service only a single design the A7V producing 20 vehicles due to lack of capacities or resources. Tanks of the interwar period evolved into the designs of World War II. Important concepts of armoured warfare were developed; the Soviet Union launched the first mass tank/air attack at Khalkhin Gol in August 1939, which later resulted in the T-34, a predecessor of the main battle tank; this was quickly followed up by Germany on a larger scale when they introduced blitzkrieg less than two weeks later; a technique which made use of massed concentrations of tanks supported by artillery and air power to break through the enemy front and cause a complete collapse in enemy resistance and morale.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tank

   tangk, n. a large basin or cistern: a reservoir of water.—v.t. to cause to flow into a tank: to plunge into a tank.—ns. Tank′age, the act of storing oil, &c., in tanks: the price charged for such storage: the capacity of a tank or series of tanks; Tank′-car, a railway-car for carrying petroleum in bulk in a long cylindrical tank; Tank′-en′gine, a locomotive that carries the water and coal it requires; Tank′-worm, a nematode worm in the mud of tanks in India. [Port. tanque (Sp. estanque, O. Fr. estang)—L. stagnum, a stagnant pool.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tank

   A piece of deep water, natural as well as artificial. Also, an iron cistern for containing fresh water--a great improvement on wooden casks for keeping water sweet.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TANK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tank is ranked #14127 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tank surname appeared 2,127 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Tank.
   
   83.5% or 1,778 total occurrences were White.
   10.8% or 230 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.3% or 49 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 47 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Armored Vehicle
   • Drink
   • Freight Car
   • Military Vehicle
   • Store
   • Treat

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Tank' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3092

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Tank' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3158

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Tank' in Nouns Frequency: #963

How to pronounce Tank?

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 Tank in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tank in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Tank in a Sentence

1. Mary Saladino:

   It’s like your power goes off in your house and you have a backup generator, but your backup generator isn’t working so well, we see the disease manifest at moments when Henry’s tank is running low. It could be when he’s too hot, tired from climbing upstairs, or he’s hungry or his brain was working too hard during therapy.

2. Lindsey Graham:

   I think Biden's approval ratings are in the tank because his policies are not working, he's got to talk about how to fix a broken border, how to repair the damage done through the Biden economic agenda, and how to make the world a safer place.

3. David Barker:

   In the short run, his numbers might get even worse if he then does not decide to shut things down again — because he will lose favor with people on his own side who currently support him, in the long run, though, shutting things down will make him even more unpopular, because it would tank the economy again — producing the dreaded two-headed monster of stagflation.

4. Brandon Wipf:

   Certainly, if this trade war were to continue to escalate, you’re going to see some big time switch in strategy [on] the part of farmers all across America going into the next year and the next year, if everybody switches to plant corn for instance, well what do you think the price of corn is going to do? It’s going to tank.

5. Transportation Safety Board of Canada:

   Preliminary assessment of the CPC-1232-compliant tank cars involved in this occurrence demonstrates the inadequacy of this standard given the tank cars' similar performance to the legacy Class 111 tanks cars involved in the Lac-Mégantic accident.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Tank
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tank
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Tank
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tank
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Tank
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Tank
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Tank
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html