Tank (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
  2. a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
  3. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
  4. (in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, best suited to withstand large amounts of damage from an enemy: The only decent tank in this game is Warrior, just because the cooldown period for the Paladin and Dark Knight skills is way too long.
  5. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
  6. tank top.
verb (used with object)
  1. to put or store in a tank.
  2. (in a video game) to provoke and hold the attention of (an enemy character) so that it does not target other player characters in the party who are less able to withstand large amounts of damage: If you’re properly tanking this boss, you’ll never let him face your mages.
verb (used without object)
  1. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail: The movie tanked at the box office.
Verb Phrases
  1. tank up,
    • to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
    • to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.
Idioms
  1. to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
  2. in the tank, Slang.
    • failing, doing poorly, or declining: His grades were in the tank last quarter.
    • favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for): The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
noun
  1. a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases
    • an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
    • (as modifier)
  3. a reservoir, lake, or pond
  4. photog
    • a light-tight container inside which a film can be processed in daylight, the solutions and rinsing waters being poured in and out without light entering
    • any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
  5. slang, mainly US
    • a jail
    • a jail cell
  6. the quantity contained in a tank
  7. a dam formed by excavation
verb
  1. to put or keep in a tank
  2. to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
  3. to defeat heavily
  4. to fail, esp commercially
Tank (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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