Meaning of tank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
2. bottle
3. A closed container for liquids or gases
4. A closed container for liquids or gases.
5. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
6. A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
7. To place, store, or process in a tank.
8. tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
9. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids
10. A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
11. Informal To suffer a sudden decline or failure: The stock market tanked yesterday.
    Informal
12. A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial)
13. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
14. A term sometimes applied to a pond used to collect and hold water for livestock.
15. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle
16. The amount held by a container; a tankful.
17. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.
18. The amount held by a container; a tankful
19. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
20. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.
21. A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.
22. A reservoir or dam.
    Australia, India
23. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.
24. A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
25. A tank top.
26. A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
    colloquial
27. Slang A jail or jail cell.
    Slang
28. A bouncer or doorman.
    UK, broadly, dated, slang
29. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication.
    Slang
30. 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).
31. A prison cell, or prison generally.
    US, slang
32. A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
    slang
33. Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
34. Ellipsis of tank top.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“The propane is stored in these tanks.”

“The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.”

“The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.”

“The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.”

“The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.”

“The tanks are full and the grass is high.”

“We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.”

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

“The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.”

“Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.”

“Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day!”

“The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.”

“drunk tank”

“The sheriff threw us in the tank without charges!”

“By the nature of imprisonment, one is perceived by free society as something subhuman. By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system.”

“Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.”

“Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore.”

“T-BACK COTTON TANK”

“It pleased her more than she could say to know she walked on her own land, over dewed grass, wearing a tank and cotton pajama pants.”

“I was wearing a tank and some cotton pants.”

“On TikTok, #wifepleaser boasts more than 11.4 million views, while #wifepleasertank has racked up 13.9 million. […] Thanks to TikTok, there has been a mass adoption of the term “wife pleaser” in an attempt to rebrand the tank.”

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