tank
/ˈteɪ̯ŋk/ noun B1- A closed container for liquids or gases. · The propane is stored in these tanks.· The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. · The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.· The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle. · We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful. · I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
- An armored fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks. · The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.· Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.
- A reservoir or dam (as it is known in the rest of Australia).
- A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
Plural tanks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.
They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.
And then he called aloud: “To the tank, Bagheera.
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