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▸ noun: An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
▸ noun: A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
▸ noun: The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
▸ noun: The amount held by a container; a tankful.
▸ noun: An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
▸ noun: (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
▸ noun: (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
▸ noun: (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
▸ noun: (UK, slang, dated, by extension) A bouncer or doorman.
▸ noun: (roleplaying games, board games, video games) a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
▸ noun: (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
▸ noun: (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
▸ verb: To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
▸ verb: (video games) To 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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
▸ verb: To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
▸ verb: (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
▸ verb: (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
▸ verb: To put or keep in a tank.
▸ noun: A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
▸ noun: A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
▸ verb: (Singapore, informal) To stand; to tolerate.
▸ noun: (rail transport) Short for tank engine and tank locomotive.
▸ noun: (clothing) Short for tank top. [An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.]
Similar:
tank car,
armored combat vehicle,
cooler,
army tank,
Storage tank,
sandbed,
sump,
aquarium,
fishtank,
tanker,
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