Tankname

• 1

  A city in Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

• 2

  A district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

tanknoun詞源 1/ˈtæŋk/

• 1

  A closed container for liquids or gases.

  • The propane is stored in these tanks.
  • The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.
• 2

  An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

  • The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.
  • The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.
• 3

  A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).

  • The tanks are full and the grass is high.
• 4

  The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

  • We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
• 5

  The amount held by a container; a tankful.

  • I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
• 6

  An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

  • The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.
  • Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.
• 7

  A reservoir or dam.

• 8

  biologybotanynatural-sciencesA structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.

tankadj詞源 1/ˈtæŋk/

tankverb詞源 1/ˈtæŋk/

• 1

  To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

  • He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
  • "[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
• 2

  To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

• 3

  video-gamesTo attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.

• 4

  To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.

  • Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake.
  • Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
• 5

  To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

  • Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
• 6

  slanglifestyleTo resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.

  • Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
  • A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
• 7

  slangTo contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.

• 8

  To stand; to tolerate.

tanknoun詞源 2/ˈtæŋk/

• 1

  A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.

• 2

  A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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