Tank Fish Tæŋk I Gas Noun Fuel/Water/Storage Keeping

• a fuel/water/storage tank
• a fish tank (= for keeping fish in)
• i filled the petrol tank before i set off on my journey.
• the gas tank

tank

1. a large container for holding liquid or gas
• SEE ALSO flotation tank
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/flotation-tank
• a fuel/water/storage tank
• a fish tank (= for keeping fish in)
• I filled the petrol tank before I set off on my journey.
• the gas tank
• He uses an oxygen tank to breathe.

Extra Examples

• Put a little fish food into the tank.
• The truck crashed into a wall and ruptured a fuel tank.
• Firefighters sometimes need to use air tanks and special breathing masks.
2. the contents of a tank or the amount it will hold
• We drove there and back on one tank of fuel.
3. a military vehicle covered with strong metal and armed with guns. It can travel over very rough ground using wheels that move inside metal belts.
• Tanks rolled in to end the siege.
• He's six feet tall and built like a tank (= has a solid, strong body).
4. an artificial pool, lake or reservoir

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi (a language spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra) tānke͂ ‘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.