Image:US_Army_M1A1_Abrams_main_battle_tank.jpg|thumb|right|A military tank.
English
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.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æ�k|-æ�k
Noun
en-noun
- A container for liquids or gases, typically with a volume of several cubic metres.
- A armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun and moving on caterpillar tracks. For details see the w:tank|Wikipedia article on "tank".
- (Australian and Indian English), a reservoir or dam.
- (American SouthWest? English, esp Texas), a large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field. By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- slang a very muscular and physically intense person
- In USA scuba divers' usage, a compressed air or gas cylinder.
- In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.
- For uses as a name, see w:Tank|tank in Wikipedia.
Translations
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Finnish: säiliö, tankki
German: Tank m
Hebrew: ���� m
Interlingua: tank
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Japanese: ���(���, tanku)
Polish: zbiornik m
Portuguese: tanque m
Russian: бак (bak) m
Swedish: tank
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trans-top|military fighting vehicle
Czech: #Czech|tank m
Finnish: panssarivaunu, tankki
German: Panzer m
Hebrew: ×�× ×§ m
Interlingua: tank
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Japanese: ��(����, sensha)
Polish: czo�g m
Portuguese: tanque m
Russian: �анк (tank) m
Swedish: pansarvagn c
Ukrainian: �анк m
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trans-top|role playing character
Finnish: tankki
Swedish: tank
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trans-top|muscular and physically intense person
Finnish: kaappi (slang)
Swedish: muskelknutte
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Verb
en-verb
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stockmarket); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Online RPG) To attract the attacks of a monster, so that the other people in the group can defeat the monster in question more efficiently.
- To put fuel into a tank
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Czech
Noun
tank m
- #English|tank, armor
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