tank – English noun declension

English noun forms of tank

Noun: tank
Singulartank
Pluraltanks

Sample Sentences

  • The propane is stored in these tanks.
  • The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.
  • The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:]
  • The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.
  • The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.
  • The tanks are full and the grass is high. [1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back:]
  • We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
  • I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
  • The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.
  • Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.
  • Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day! [2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:]
  • The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.
  • See also: distraction carnifex
  • drunk tank
  • The sheriff threw us in the tank without charges!
  • By the nature of imprisonment, one is perceived by free society as something subhuman. By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system. [1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4:]
  • Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long. [1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Longest Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 431–432:]
  • Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore. [1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:]
  • T-BACK COTTON TANK [1990 November 18, “Earl’s Reebok Sale for the Holidays”, in Granite City Press-Record Journal, volume 6, number 46, Granite City, Ill., →OCLC, page 8A:]
  • It pleased her more than she could say to know she walked on her own land, over dewed grass, wearing a tank and cotton pajama pants. [2008, Nora Roberts, Tribute, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 206:]
  • I was wearing a tank and some cotton pants. [2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Minneapolis, Minn.: Broadleaf Books, 1517 Media, →ISBN:]
  • On TikTok, #wifepleaser boasts more than 11.4 million views, while #wifepleasertank has racked up 13.9 million. […] Thanks to TikTok, there has been a mass adoption of the term “wife pleaser” in an attempt to rebrand the tank. [2023 August 9, Brooke Kato, “Gen Z loves the ‘wife beater’ tee — but they’re canceling the name”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2023:]

Etymology

1. From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī).
2. A false friend can be found in North Germanic: dunk (“canister, keg”), 17th c. tönk, which appears derived from both Low German tunneke, Dutch tonneke (diminutive of "barrel"), and dunka (“to dunk, to dip under water, to moisten”).
3. * In the sense of armoured vehicle, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature and due to physical resemblance. First attested in 1915, but in common usage only as of 1916. Displaced landship, and mostly displaced battlewagon. See: Portuguese Nouns 'tanque'.

Verbs referencing "tank"

Danish Nouns tank, Dutch Nouns tank, French Nouns tank, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns tank, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tank, Polish Nouns tank, Latvian Nouns tanks, German Nouns Tank, Russian Nouns танк, Ukrainian Nouns танк, Italian Nouns tanica, Finnish Nouns tankki, Catalan Nouns tanc, Romanian Nouns tanc, Italian Nouns tanca, Russian Nouns танкер, French Nouns tinque.