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tank

[ tangk ]

noun

  1. a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas:

    tanks for storing oil.

  2. a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
  3. Military. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
  4. (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: DD ( def 2 ), healer ( def 3 ).

    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.

  5. Slang. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.


verb (used with object)

  1. to put or store in a tank.
  2. (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鈥檙e properly tanking this boss, you鈥檒l never let him face your mages.

verb (used without object)

  1. Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail:

    The movie tanked at the box office.

verb phrase

    1. to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
    2. Slang. to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.

tank

/ 迟忙艐办 /

noun

  1. a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases

    tanks for storing oil

    1. an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
    2. ( as modifier )

      a tank commander

      a tank brigade

  2. dialect.
    a reservoir, lake, or pond
  3. photog
    1. 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
    2. any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
  4. slang.
    1. a jail
    2. a jail cell
  5. Also calledtankful the quantity contained in a tank
  6. a dam formed by excavation
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to put or keep in a tank
  2. intr to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
  3. slang.
    to defeat heavily
  4. informal.
    intr to fail, esp commercially
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞迟补苍办藢濒颈办别, adjective
  • 藞迟补苍办濒别蝉蝉, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 迟补苍办路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
  • 迟补苍办路濒颈办别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of tank1

First recorded in 1610鈥20; perhaps jointly from Gujarati 迟腻苍办丑 鈥渞eservoir, lake,鈥 and Portuguese tanque, shortening of estanque 鈥減ond,鈥 literally, 鈥渟omething dammed up,鈥 derivative of estancar, from Vulgar Latin 蝉迟补苍迟颈肠腻谤别 (unattested) 鈥渢o dam up, weaken鈥; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December 1915)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of tank1

C17: from Gujarati 迟腻苍办丑 artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin 蝉迟补苍迟颈肠腻谤别 (unattested) to block, stanch
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. go in / into the tank, Boxing Slang. to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
  2. in the tank, Slang.
    1. failing, doing poorly, or declining:

      His grades were in the tank last quarter.

    2. favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for ):

      The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.

More idioms and phrases containing tank

In addition to the idiom beginning with tank , also see think tank .
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Example Sentences

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Yalda Jabbarpour, director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies, a health policy think tank, said failure to invest robustly in primary care has robbed the public of its benefits.

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"These are barely trained troops led by Russian officers who they don't understand," former British Army tank commander, Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon had said earlier this year.

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A leading health think tank says urgent and emergency care in England is performing "far worse" than before the pandemic.

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鈥淚 remember that some of the soldiers that drove the tank into the Independence Palace that day were from my hometown,鈥 the retired hospital worker said.

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鈥淭he economy does best when government doesn鈥檛 pick winners and losers,鈥 said Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow of business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank that advocates for free markets.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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