Definition of "tank" in Anglais

noun

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).

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. (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.

8. (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.

9. (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.

10. (UK, slang, dated, by extension) A bouncer or doorman.

11. (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).

    • The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.

12. (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.

    • drunk tank
    • The sheriff threw us in the tank without charges!

13. (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.

14. (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.

15. (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.

verb

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

2. (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.

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