tanker

See also: tänker

English

Etymology

tank + -er

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)

Noun

tanker (plural tankers)

An oil tanker
  1. (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
  2. (automotive, US) A tank truck.
  3. (automotive, Britain) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
  4. (rail transport) A tank car
  5. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
  6. (surfing slang) A longboard.
    I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip

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Verb

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)

  1. (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.

Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tankər/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ɐ̯]

Etymology 1

tanker c

  1. plural indefinite of tanke

Etymology 2

From English tanker

Noun

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

  1. a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)
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Verb

tanker

  1. present of tanke

Norwegian Bokmål

Tankeren "Flanders Loyalty"

Etymology 1

From English tanker

Noun

tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

  1. (nautical) a tanker
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See also

Noun

tanker m

  1. indefinite plural of tank
  2. indefinite plural of tanke

Verb

tanker

  1. present of tanke

References


Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tǎnker/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧ker

Noun

tànker m (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)

  1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Declension

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