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tank English

Meaning tank meaning

What does tank mean?
Definitions in simple English

tank Noun

— A tank is a large, strong container for gas or liquid. The gas stove was connected to a propane tank. When the house needs heat, hot water from the storage tank is transferred to the house. The firefighter was in full gear: helmet, flashlight, oxygen tank strapped across his back. The fuel tank holds 40 liters. The most common sources of groundwater pollution are leaking underground storage tanks. She was pumping gas into the tank of her 1977 Ford LTD. There was a large fish tank in which a few small orange fish were swimming. A notebook and pen lie on top of the toilet tank. I returned the car to her with an empty tank. — A tank is a large metal vehicle with a gun that runs on tracks. They do not have heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles. 1968 was the year Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. — The tank is a room, usually in a police station, for keeping people locked up. The police threw him in the holding tank with us.

tank Verb

— If something tanks, it gets worse quickly.

tank

— noun an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads — noun a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids — noun as much as a tank will hold — verb treat in a tank tank animal refuse — verb store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it — verb consume excessive amounts of alcohol — noun (= tank car) a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk — noun (= cooler) a cell for violent prisoners

Synonyms tank synonyms

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tank English » English

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Tank English » English

tank

Topics tank topics

What do people use tank to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with oil and gas
States Big Big area

Big container, volume

  • What words refer to a container that is big?
    tank tub
Work and occupation

Animal husbandry
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water

Conjugation tank conjugation

How do you conjugate tank?

tank · verb

Examples tank examples

How do I use tank in a sentence?

Simple sentences

How much petrol is left in the tank?
There's little water in the tank, if any.
The gas tank suddenly blew up.
The water tank teems with mosquito larvae.
The fuel tank in the car is full.
Can we drive to Miami on half a tank of gas?
Yuriko, a marine biology grad student, fell asleep inside a fish tank and awoke covered in octopuses and starfish.
The tank is full.
How many fish can you keep in your tank?
This tank has a capacity of thirty liters.
The gasoline tank was underneath.
What is a think tank?
The tank is empty.
They loaded the tank on the flatcar.
Fill up the tank.
The gas tank is almost empty.
How many gallons does it take to fill your tank?
Make sure you don't forget to fill up the tank.
The gas tank is empty.
The tank was empty.
How much kerosene is left in the tank?
How much water is left in the tank?

Movie subtitles

It's a tank to gather the rainwater.
What about the tank?
To have that thing in a tank, for starters, is wrong.
Now all you have to do is keep away from the tank.
I've seen you watching me from the tank. wanting to make a meal out of me.
Pavel lvanovitch! - lt seems the oxygen tank is damaged!
You mean to tell me that A.P. Kirby has been held in the drunk tank?
What a holiday they'd have if they knew A.P. Kirby was in the drunk tank.
No, the gasoline in the tank!
Don't overflow your tank.
Can a whippet tank make a sharp turn?
Can a whippet tank go up a side road?
A whippet tank can go anywhere.
She's some tank, ain't she?
Force-quit the tank.
The Blessed who abducted Ivan headed in the direction of the Savior tank plant, which also happens to be a company capable of creating a man-made virus?
Some months ago, I furnished you with plans and specifications of a new weapon called the tank.
It dealt with a research scientist, prior to disappearing himself, experimenting and making an octopus invisible in his laboratory tank.
Hurry, I'm chasing some bandits, and I forgot to fill up the tank.
Better throw her in the fish tank till I get down there.
Throw her in the fish tank.
I'd like to get this gal out of the woman's tank.
The co-pilot's seat was replaced by an extra fuel tank.
You'll ride on the tank.
I don't have to return it with a full tank, do I?
Nick, you're wasting your time in a small tank like this.
The copilot's seat was replaced by an extra fuel tank.
This factory, that smokestack and that tank will be all yours, Zenta, Sampei.
So, what's a tank?
I'll shove a tank down your throat.
And now, Wilhelm, I understand you want a little tank to play with.

News and current affairs

For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp - as America discovered in Vietnam.
My think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, is working with more than 60 top economists and several Nobel laureates to identify which targets promise the highest return on investment.
No one should be surprised the latest anti-tank missiles can penetrate even the heaviest and best protected of battle tanks.
The Israeli infantrymen had taped flashlights to their helmets so that the tank gunners could direct their fire at the Egyptians just ahead of them.
The Egyptians' tanks could still have counter-attacked, but they were engaged by an Israeli tank battalion that appeared from well behind the trench lines, having crossed supposedly impassable sand dunes.
A tremendously respected independent think tank, Freedom House, is, like the UN's headquarters, located in New York City.
All Bulgarian men have served in the army, and many remember how, in the 1970's, Russian tank brigades could be airlifted into the country in a matter of hours.
Fortunately, I can draw on an independent report by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), a Swiss think tank, to support my claim.
My think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, has asked 60 teams of the world's top economists to examine most of them.
But tank it did, taking Russia's economy with it.
Then, beginning in the spring of 1990, Germany united, the Warsaw Pact and USSR disintegrated, and countries to Germany's east, which had been the staging post for Soviet tank armies, suddenly became friends, then partners.
The alternative view, championed by people such as Igor Yurgens, head of Medvedev's favorite think tank, The Institute of Contemporary Development, is that democracy is the precondition for economic modernization.
Whenever you fill up your European compact car's gas tank, or that of your American SUV, you pay as much as a Russian schoolteacher earns in a month.
Its successor, the National Development and Reform Commission, will probably function more as a think tank - providing ideas and ensuring policy coherence, but with no power to allocate.
If people would stop filling up and instead make do with half a tank, they would immediately lower gasoline demand.
Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet-point from a report by an environmental think tank.
The time has come to supply the rebels with what they desperately need: anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles.
Did the whale, an orca named Tilikum and nicknamed Tilly, act out of stress at being held captive in a sterile concrete tank?
Moreover, the degree of confinement in an aquarium is extreme, for no tank, no matter how large, can come close to meeting the needs of animals who spend their lives in social groups swimming long distances in the ocean.
Working out the costs and benefits of a program to improve women's rights is not easy, but analyses by my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, offer some valuable insights.
Two of its reporters were later killed in Baghdad when a US tank fired on the Hotel Palestine, where, according to US officials, it was believed that a spotter directing fire at US troops was located.
An influential Moscow think tank called Niccolo M. advises the Kremlin on policies like offensive military communication technologies and hybrid warfare.
New America, the think tank I head, has compiled a database on 466 individuals from 25 Western countries who have left their homes to go to Syria.
Tank-washing gave rise to a huge number of small spills, and tanker accidents such as those involving the Torrey Canyon, Exxon Valdez, Metula, and St. Peter resulted in huge, concentrated spills.
The secular opposition's accession to power on the back of a tank might feed the Islamists' rage for years to come.
Given this alignment of forces, and the bloodshed that has already occurred in Manama's Pearl Square, the scenes from Cairo of protesters arm-in-arm with soldiers and hugging tank crews are unlikely to be replayed here.
It displayed a composite picture of an Israeli tank and a soldier taking aim at a defenseless Palestinian.
The grain required to fill the tank of an SUV with ethanol is enough to feed one African for a year.

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