Dictionaries › English

tank

The English word “tank” has 25 meanings listed here.

  1. A closed container for liquids or gases.
  2. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
  3. A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
  4. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
  5. The amount held by a container; a tankful.
  6. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
  7. A reservoir or dam.
  8. A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
  9. A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
  10. A bouncer or doorman.
  11. 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).
  12. A prison cell, or prison generally.
  13. A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
  14. Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
  15. Ellipsis of tank top.
  16. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
  17. 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.
  18. To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
  19. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
  20. To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
  21. To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
  22. To stand; to tolerate.
  23. To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
  24. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
  25. A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “tank” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 589,350 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.