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Tank

noun
1.
An enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads.  Synonyms: armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank.
2.
A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids.  Synonym: storage tank.
3.
As much as a tank will hold.  Synonym: tankful.
4.
A freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk.  Synonym: tank car.
5.
A cell for violent prisoners.  Synonym: cooler.
verb
1.
Store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it.
2.
Consume excessive amounts of alcohol.
3.
Treat in a tank.



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"Tank" Quotes from Famous Books



... declared ready, Jack opened the charging-tube of the gas reservoir and poured in some of the volatile powder that made the lifting vapor. In fifteen minutes the gauge showed a good pressure in the tank and the valve ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner
... thing to tell you about insect collecting at "Old Orchard." About five months back I was examining one of the clumps of an orchid in the glass case—which had been sent me from Buenos Ayres by Mr. John Hall—when three pretty little beetles dropped out of it, on the edge of the tank, and I only managed to catch two of them. They were pretty little Longicornes, about an inch long, but very slender and graceful, though only of a yellowish-brown colour. I sent them up to the British Museum asking the name, and telling ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... touches. The patio of a Mexican house is its proper front. Here you no longer look upon jail-like door and windows, but facades gaily frescoed, curtained verandahs, and glazed sashes that reach to the ground. The patio of Don Ramon's mansion was paved with brick. A fountain, with its tank of japanned mason-work, stood in the centre; orange-trees stretched their fronds over the water: their golden globes and white wax-like flowers perfumed the atmosphere, which, cooled by the constant evaporation of the jet, felt fresh and fragrant. Around three sides ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... you from some rustic institution for the insane. You take a liver-pill and go to bed! I don't promise anything, mind, but perhaps about the first I can manage a little cheque if only you will make oath on a few Bibles not to tank up on it in Lichfield. The transoms there," he added unkindlily, "are not built for those full ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... not unusual to see, lying on the edge of the tank at these times, or on another flat stone, an unfortunate baby, tightly swathed up, arms and legs and all, in an enormous quantity of wrapper, so that it is unable to move a toe or finger. This custom (which we often see represented ...
— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens


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