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Found 1 definition: tank.

Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun tank has 5 senses

1. tank(n = noun.artifact) armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank - an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads;
is a kind of armored vehicle, armoured vehicle, military vehicle, tracked vehicle
has parts: cannon, gun enclosure, gun turret, turret
has particulars: panzer

2. tank(n = noun.artifact) storage tank - a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids;
is a kind of vessel
has particulars: aquarium, fish tank, marine museum, cistern, water tank, gas holder, gasometer, gas tank, gasoline tank, petrol tank, reservoir, septic tank, hot-water heater, hot-water tank, water heater
Derived forms verb tank₃, verb tank₁

3. tank(n = noun.quantity) tankful - as much as a tank will hold;
is a kind of containerful
Derived form verb tank₁

4. tank(n = noun.artifact) tank car - a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk;
is a kind of freight car

5. tank(n = noun.artifact) cooler - a cell for violent prisoners;
is a kind of cell, jail cell, prison cell

Verb tank has 3 senses

1. tank(v = verb.possession) - store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it;
is one way to store
Derived forms noun tank₂, noun tank₃, noun tankage₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2. tank(v = verb.consumption) - consume excessive amounts of alcohol;
is one way to booze, drink, fuddle
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

3. tank(v = verb.change) - treat in a tank; "tank animal refuse"
is one way to process, treat
Derived form noun tank₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

tank, n.

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds. [1913 Webster]

tank, n. [Pg. tanque, L. stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian origin. Cf. Stank, n.].

1. A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. [1913 Webster]

2. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home."
"The tanks are full and the grass is high." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. a heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an armored division. [PJC]

4. a jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station. [PJC]

Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender. -- Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

tank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a large receptacle or storage chamber usu. for liquid or gas.
2 a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a tracked carriage.
3 a container for the fuel supply in a motor vehicle.
4 the part of a locomotive tender containing water for the boiler.
5 a Ind. & Austral. a reservoir. b dial. esp. US a pond.
--v. (usu. foll. by up) esp. Brit.
1 tr. fill the tank of (a vehicle etc.) with fuel.
2 intr. & colloq. tr. (in passive) drink heavily; become drunk.

Idiom:
tank engine a railway engine carrying fuel and water receptacles in its own frame, not in a tender. tank-farming the practice of growing plants in tanks of water without soil. tank top a sleeveless, close-fitting upper garment with a scoop-neck.

Derivative:
tankful n. (pl. -fuls). tankless adj.

Etymology:
Gujurati tankh etc., perh. f. Skr. tadaga pond

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.