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tank
[tangk]
noun
a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas.
tanks for storing oil.
a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
Military.an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
(in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, best suited to withstand large amounts of damage from an enemy.
The only decent tank in this game is Warrior, just because the cooldown period for the Paladin and Dark Knight skills is way too long.
Slang.a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
verb (used with object)
to put or store in a tank.
(in a video game) to provoke and hold the attention of (an enemy character) so that it does not target other player characters in the party who are less able to withstand large amounts of damage.
If you’re properly tanking this boss, you’ll never let him face your mages.
verb (used without object)
Slang.to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail.
The movie tanked at the box office.
verb phrase
to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
Slangto drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.
tank
/ æŋ /
noun
a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases
tanks for storing oil
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
dialecta reservoir, lake, or pond
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
slang
a jail
a jail cell
Also called: tankful.the quantity contained in a tank
a dam formed by excavation
verb
(tr) to put or keep in a tank
(intr) to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
slangto defeat heavily
informal(intr) to fail, esp commercially
Other 51Թ Forms
- tankless adjective
- tanklike adjective
- ˈٲˌ adjective
- ˈٲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tank1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tank1
Idioms and Phrases
go in / into the tank, to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
in the tank,
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 orfor ).
The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
Example Sentences
The president stood to salute as some of the thousands of uniformed soldiers taking part in the parade marched past, alongside dozens of tanks and military vehicles, plus marching bands.
Mr Spencer, who is now head of crime and justice for the centre-right Policy Exchange think tank, says demands on police time have risen dramatically.
Tigers still had something in the tank and Emeka Ilione's score five minutes from time set up a grandstand finish but Bath held on.
"I don't think any Australian should feel that our ally is fully committed to our security at this moment," says Sam Roggeveen, who leads the security programme at Australia's Lowy Institute think tank.
It will feature nearly 7,000 troops, 50 aircraft and 28 tanks.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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