Tank

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English

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Etymology

Indian vernacular word (eg. Gujarati taku, or Marathi take (please improve these transliterations or replace them by the proper words)) for a large artificial water reservoir (cistern, pool, etc.), via Portuguese tanque, "tank", "liquid container". Also, Arabic has a verb istanqa`a = "it (= a liquid) collected and became stagnant".

As an armored military vehicle: to disguise its intended purpose, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water.

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Noun

Singular
tank

Plural
tanks

  1. In English language usage in India, a reservoir.
  2. A container for liquids or gases, typically with a volume of several cubic metres.
  3. In USA scuba divers' usage, a compressed air or gas cylinder.
  4. A heavy armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a large gun and moving on caterpillar tracks. For details see the Wikipedia article on "tank".
  5. In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.
  6. For uses as a name, see tank in Wikipedia.
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Translations

container

  • Finnish: tankki
  • German: Tank m
  • Interlingua: tank

military equipment

Translations to be checked

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Verb

Infinitive
to tank

Third person singular
tanks

Simple past
tanked

Past participle
tanked

Present participle
tanking

  1. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stockmarket); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.cs:tank

el:tank fr:tank ko:tank io:tank it:tank pl:tank ta:tank

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