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Definitions for Tank

[1] a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
[2] a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
[3] Military . an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
[4] Slang . a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
[5] tank top.
[6] to put or store in a tank.
[7] Slang . to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail: The movie tanked at the box office.
[8] tank up , to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Slang . to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.
[9] go in /into the tank , Boxing Slang . to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
[10] in the tank , Slang . failing, doing poorly, or declining: His grades were in the tank last quarter. favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for ): The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
[11] a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases tanks for storing oil
[12] an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I (as modifier ) a tank commander ; a tank brigade
[13] British and US dialect a reservoir, lake, or pond
[14] photog a light-tight container inside which a film can be processed in daylight, the solutions and rinsing waters being poured in and out without light entering any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
[15] slang , mainly US a jail a jail cell
[16] Also called: tankful the quantity contained in a tank
[17] Australian a dam formed by excavation
[18] (tr) to put or keep in a tank
[19] (intr) to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
[20] slang to defeat heavily
[21] (intr) informal to fail, esp commercially

Words related to Tank

vessel, container, pond, pool, reservoir, keg, cask, cistern, basin, receptacle, vat, cauldron, tub, aquarium

Words nearby Tank

tanizaki jun-ichiro, tanjore, tanjungkarang, tanjungpandan, tanjungpriok, tank, tank car, tank destroyer, tank engine, tank farm, tank farming

Origin of Tank

1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (< Vulgar Latin *stanticāre ) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)

Other words from Tank

tank·less , adjective
tank·like , adjective

Word origin for Tank

C17: from Gujarati tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre (unattested) to block, stanch

Synonyms for Tank

container, vessel, basin, cask, cauldron, cistern, keg, receptacle, tub, vat