tank meaning
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[tæŋk] [teɪŋk] [-æŋk] WTank
- A tank is a large type of armoured fighting vehicle with tracks, designed for front-line combat. Modern tanks are strong mobile land weapons platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret.
- Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front.
- Tanks of the interwar period evolved into the designs of World War II.
- The widespread introduction of HEAT warheads during the second half of WWII led to lightweight anti-tank weapons with considerable power. This caused major changes in tank doctrine and the introduction of effective combined arms tactics.
FR tank 
- NounPLtanks
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
- (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) A large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- (role-playing 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).
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- VerbSGtanksPRtankingPT, PPtanked
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (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.
- To put fuel into a tank.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- As a test for centrophobia, we measured the time fish spent in the centre of the tank in the horizontal plane.
- The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.
- A svelte pima tank top with little buttons down the back is $118.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The C-47s could not make it over the Hump with a full load and full tanks.
- To avoid misfuelling, diesel car owners could get a device that replaces the conventional fuel cap and prevents the petrol nozzle fitting in the tank.
- He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tank in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tank" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.