tank
noun
[ taŋk ]
• a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas.
• a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
Similar:
armoured vehicle,
armoured car,
combat vehicle,
Panzer,
• short for tank engine.
• "a large class of 0-6-0 tanks"
• a cell in a police station or jail.
• short for tank top.
tank
verb
• fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
• "the cars stopped to tank up"
• fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
• "the previous movie had tanked at the box office"
• defeat heavily.
• "Rangers tanked the local side 8–0"
Origin:
early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ ‘underground cistern’, from Sanskrit tadāga ‘pond’, probably influenced by Portuguese tangue ‘pond’, from Latin stagnum . The military vehicle took its name from the use of tank as a secret code word during manufacture in 1915.
