tank

• IPA^(key): /tæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk

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”).

In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water [from 1915] as well as physical resemblance.

tank (plural tanks)

1. A closed container for liquids or gases.
2. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
3. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
   • Lawson

     The tanks are full and the grass is high.

4. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
5. The amount held by a container; a tankful.

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

6. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
7. (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
8. (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
9. (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
10. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
11. (role-playing games, board games, video games) a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks)
12. (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.

• (military fighting vehicle): battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle

• (military fighting vehicle): infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), superheavy tank (historical), tankette (historical), bobbin tank (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flail tank, flame tank, flamethrower tank

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, SPG, tank destroyer, assault gun

• → Afrikaans: tenk
• → Albanian: tank
• → Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)
• → Asturian: tanque
• → Azerbaijani: tank
• → Bashkir: танк (tank)
• → Belarusian: танк (tank)
• → Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭjangk)
• → Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)
• → Buryat: танк (tank)
• → Catalan: tanc
• → Chechen: танк (tank)
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)
• → Chuvash: танк (tank)
• → Czech: tank
• → Danish: tank
• → Dutch: tank
• → Eastern Mari: танк (tank)
• → Estonian: tank
• → Fiji Hindi: tanki
• → Finnish: tankki
• → French: tank
• → Galician: tanque
• → Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)
• → German: Tank
• → Greek: τανκ (tank)
• → Greenlandic: tanki
• → Hebrew: טנק‎ (tank)
• → Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
  • → Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)
• → Indonesian: tank
• → Italian: tank, tanca
• → Japanese: タンク (tanku)
• → Kazakh: танк (tank)
• → Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)
• → Kumyk: танк
• → Kyrgyz: танк (tank)
• → Latvian: tanks
• → Lezgi: танк (tank)
• → Lithuanian: tankas
• → Macedonian: тенк (tenk)
• → Malay: tank
• → Maori: taika
• → Mongolian: танк (tank)
• → Norwegian: tank, tanks
• → Ossetian: танк (tank)
• → Persian: تانک‎ (tânk)
• → Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)
• → Quechua: tanki
• → Romanian: tanc
• → Romansch: tanc
• → Russian: танк (tank)
  • → Armenian: տանկ (tank)
• → Rusyn: танк (tank)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тенк

  Latin: tenk

• → Slovak: tank
• → Slovene: tank
• → Swahili: tangi
• → Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)
• → Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)
• → Tatar: танк (tank)
• → Turkish: tank
• → Turkmen: tank
• → Ukrainian: танк (tank)
• → Upper Sorbian: tank
• → Urdu: ٹینک‎ (ṭaink)
• → Uzbek: tank
• → Vietnamese: xe tăng
• → Walloon: tank
• → Welsh: tanc
• → Yakut: тааҥка (taaŋka)
• → Yiddish: טאַנק‎ (tank)

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

1. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
2. (video games) 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.
3. To put fuel into a tank.
4. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
   • Farber, Michael (March 6, 2006), “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, Sports Illustrated, retrieved February 5, 2011

     Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."

5. (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
   • 2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin)‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:

     Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.

   • 2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:

     A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.

   • 2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:

     Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.

• tank up

tank (plural tanks)

1. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
2. A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

• Kant

tank

1. (Gressoney) thank you

• dankche
• fergälts Got
• merci
• vrattrus Got
• wol vergelzgott

• “tank” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /taŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋk

tank m

1. tank, armor

• tankový

• tank in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tank in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English tank.

• IPA^(key): /taːnk/, [tˢæːŋɡ̊]

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanks)

1. tank (military fighting vehicle)

• kampvogn

• IPA^(key): /tank/, [tˢɑŋ̩ˀɡ̊]

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanke)

1. tank (for storage)
2. (informal) filling station, gas station (US), petrol station (UK), service station

• (filling station): tankstation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /tɑŋk/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /tɛŋk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tank
• (Belgium) Rhymes: -ɑŋk
• (Netherlands) Rhymes: -ɛŋk

Borrowed from English tank.

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje n)

1. tank (military armoured fighting vehicle with tracks)

   Synonym: vechtwagen

2. tank (storage reservoir)

• antitankmijn
• gevechtstank
• mannelijke tank
• tankmijn
• tanktoren
• tankval
• vrouwelijke tank

• pantserwagen

See the etymology of the main entry.

tank

1. first-person singular present indicative of tanken
2. imperative of tanken

• kant

Borrowed from English tank.

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃k/

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tank m (plural tanks)

1. tank (military vehicle)
2. tank (container, Quebec French)

• (military tank): char

• “tank” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /taŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋk

tank

1. Imperative singular of tanken.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of tanken.

Borrowed from English tank.

tank m (invariable)

1. tank (military and container)

Borrowed from English tank.

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

1. a tank (container, as below)

• “tank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /tank/ (example of pronunciation)

Borrowed from English tank.

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

1. a tank (closed container for liquids or gases)

tank

1. imperative of tanka and tanke

• “tank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tank c

1. tank (container for liquids)

• dunk
• tanke