Definition of tank in English:

tank

noun taŋktæŋk

1A large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas.
（尤指存放液体或气体的）大容器，箱，罐
Example sentencesExamples
- The underground storage tanks for these chemicals (and you can be sure there were many in the Silicon Valley) sometimes leaked.
- The rainwater falling on the rooftop, which acts as the catchment area, is directed to the storage tank with the help of specially made channels using PVC pipes.
- Sperm is traditionally stored in large liquid nitrogen tanks together with a protective chemical that must be removed before fertilisation.
- The toxic waste flooded footpaths, flowed through a forest and onto playing fields after the storage tank on the road overflowed.
- Its oil refinery and farms of storage tanks disburse petroleum products to much of South-East Asia.
- In Atlanta, a retired attorney of impeccable reputation was arrested for trying to take photos of some storage tanks.
- In fact, the effective storage of most hydro tanks is about 18 percent of the total volume.
- Probably the best system would have been to run them off natural gas and to have created storage tanks near the pumps in case the gas lines failed.
- Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was enough to cause plenty of drama.
- Currently, the plant has two cream storage tanks and three raw milk storage tanks.
- The protest forced the field to halt production in order to prevent its 2,000-barrel storage tanks from overflowing.
- Storage tanks will also be built to treat stormwater.
- With the boiler and storage tanks removed from the cinder block building, that seemed to be the best first place to look.
- There are eight raw storage tanks plus an outdoor silo for all liquid ingredients, with capacity totaling 54,000 gallons.
- There are temperature controlled fermenters and storage tanks, and good new oak barrels for maturation.
- We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank.
- New emission limits will be imposed on the company when recycled liquid fuel is used and purpose-built secure on-site storage tanks will be used to store the fuel.
- As you can see from the figure below, the baffle extends to the top of the tank, and the liquid passes through holes below the water line.
- He had breached several conditions of his licence by failing to notify the Petroleum Licensing Authority of his intention to discontinue the use of petroleum spirit storage tanks.
- Moreover, much of the water supply is deliberately contaminated by willful destruction of sewers, water pipes and storage tanks.
1. 1.1 The container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc.
  （汽车上的）油箱
  the trucks all had a full tank of gasoline
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
  After spinning out in Saturday's qualifying, he would have started in the back of the pack anyway, so his team gave his car a fresh engine and a full tank of fuel as soon as the race started.
  Self-sealing crashworthy fuel tanks have explosion suppression and non-return valves.
  He notes, for example that there are additional opportunities for plastic fuel tanks.
  Fuel tanks could be considered the container of the lifeblood of your Mazda.
  If so, he will not be as quick with a fuller tank of fuel come the first race.
  I get a free car for a week, brand spanking new, with that gorgeous new-car smell and most probably a full tank of petrol, to drive wherever I want?
  Both plastic fuel tanks and plastic intake manifolds have experienced significant gains since 1995.
  Fuel tanks in the racing cars are located to the left of the driver so a two-seat conversion requires it to be moved to the rear of the car - no small job.
  But remember, a full tank of fuel costs £77 and lasts just over 300 miles.
  The fuel tank still contained gasoline and the majority of rubber hoses and other rubber items were in such condition that they could be reused if wanted.
  Then the airflow is diffused, only to be recompressed and diffused again as it moves along the underside of the car past the muffler and the fuel tank.
  This fitting design actually pressurizes the fuel tank and forces gasoline out of the fill pipe and it flows into the bilge.
  The car has been plagued by two recalls and at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws.
  The fuel tank and exhaust pipe routing were modified slightly to accommodate the new subframe.
  In rural areas, there are normally only a few service stations, so when travelling long distances, be sure to leave with a full tank of fuel.
  The rear seat sat above the fuel tank, which was accessed via a filler door located low on the body side, just behind the driver's door.
  In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision.
  A look at old race cars, with their exposed fuel tanks and absence of seatbelts, is a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the drivers once were.
  This is why drivers are asked to turn off their automobile engines, and not smoke, when filling fuel tanks with gasoline.
  Synonyms
  container, receptacle, vat, cistern, barrel, storage chamber, repository, reservoir, holder, basin
2. 1.2 A receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium.
  鱼缸
  Example sentencesExamples
  After wiping mud from the fish she put it on its side in a tank of water and soon enough it was swimming around.
  The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will continue to need access to the site to work on its 80 fish tanks.
  The workers raise chickens, grow their own vegetables, have a fish tank and rent out space for horses.
  A fish tank bubbled quietly next to the sliding glass doors which looked out upon the lake.
  The aquarium has also done some research and development on pressurized tanks to display fish, but a window on such a system has to be so small that only one or two people can look into a tank at a time.
  The first story is about a young Clownfish named Nemo who gets captured from his home in the ocean and wants to escape the domesticated captivity of a fish tank and find his way back to the sea.
  Staff were asked to replace damaged glass tops to aquarium tanks, and they were also told that keeping an incubation facility in the zoo kitchen is ‘inappropriate’.
  The stimulus tanks also were supplied with airstones, but none of the tanks contained filters because they would have impeded the view of both the focal fish and the observer.
  Despite the size of the sharks, she felt at ease in the underwater environment and helped clean the tank and feed the aquariums other fish.
  At other shops the undercover vets found tarantulas and scorpions within reach of children, fish in murky tanks and ignorant staff who recommended dangerous animals for family homes.
  You can tell that the ‘underwater’ shots are filmed behind a tank of aquarium fish, plastic plants and all.
  Feeding guppies in a fish tank has never been so much fun.
  Custom tanks for large specialty fish can run in the thousands of dollars, plus extra for proper heating and filtration.
  I would have to say fish - I wanted a dog and my parents got us a fish tank.
  We were walking through the aquarium, glass fish tanks surrounding us on all sides.
  Fish were held in large plastic tanks or large aquaria when not being used, and they were fed frozen chironomids and live damselfly larvae.
  One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past.
  I soon go sit down in front of my fish tank and do a little meditation.
  They garden in the small areas around the house, put out the bird food, and feed the fish in the fish tanks.
  A new shark has been introduced with the sand tiger sharks into the tanks of a British aquarium.
  Synonyms
  aquarium, bowl
3. 1.3Australian, Indian, NZ A reservoir.
  〈印度，澳/新西兰〉蓄水池
  Example sentencesExamples
  Moreover, to stop the waste pouring in from the hamlets around the lake, the department is laying under-lake sewer tanks.
  With the light showers, the water level improved in the tank.
  What seems to have gone wrong is that many of the storm water drains that followed the natural alignment and drained off excess water into tanks and lakes are no longer in a functional state.
  This year the tank has a good water level even by end May.
  About five million families mostly rural still fetch drinking water from ponds, tanks, rivers and springs.
  The Government should initiate a census of water resources in the State such as the number of wells, ponds and tanks and necessary law should be framed to protect these resources.
  The other seven tanks were also desilted and water level rose in the surrounding areas.
  Again, the Building Code could require that new houses have water tanks so that the demand for water from reticulated services is reduced.
  Rainwater tanks and stormwater harvesting are mentioned as alternative water sources but little detail is provided.
  "I have sent proposals to the State Government to target these lakes as potential groundwater recharge tanks," he said, hoping that his plans would come true.
  We had a small tank to catch the rain water from the roof, but we never used this for drinking purposes, and anyway it lasted only a few days unless rain fell at regular intervals.
  Clouds gather, sometimes developing into a cyclone but will a water-starved Chennai see its tanks, lakes, wells and reservoirs full this year?
  Through the ages, Indian agriculture has been sustained by natural and man-made water bodies such as lakes, tanks, ponds and similar structures.
  In spite of being the second largest arid zone in the country, Karnataka has been a blessed State with plenty of rainfall in the catchment areas of its rivers, lakes and tanks.
  Polluted tanks, lakes and rivers, perils faced by the ecosystem and a host of other problems have only reinforced the need to go in for joint action to achieve the desired goals.
  The Thippagondanahalli Reservoir, Bannerghatta National Park and several lakes and tanks are covered for protection and conservation.
  The water available in villages is drawn from wells sunk in tanks and lakes.
  The two agencies have been studying the feasibility of building sewage treatment plants around lakes and tanks for the restoration of the water bodies.
  What with mandatory water tanks, dual flush toilets, water saving shower heads and front loading washing machines, he is full of bright ideas.
  The water tanks are phase one of a water improvement programme for the island and the next phase will involve building a public reservoir, he says.
2A heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
坦克
Example sentencesExamples
- Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague.
- There were tanks on both sides of the border and his regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected).
- There is no doubt we have the finest tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the world.
- Among the advantages, few of the Army's tanks and armored fighting vehicles were lost to enemy action, and in most cases, their crews survived.
- Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up.
- That night the cabinet rounded up the strike leaders and flooded Glasgow with tanks and trainloads of troops to break the strike.
- Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs.
- First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank.
- In the late hours of 16 November tanks, armoured vehicles and elite army units started to move towards the city centre.
- The Marines have captured two bridges and moved hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, fuel trucks, Humvees and other military vehicles across them in the past few days.
- In short, tanks and troops alone will not win this struggle.
- The helicopters, accompanied by tanks and heavy Bradley fighting vehicles, arrived later than many expected.
- The mission of the aircraft is ground attack against tanks, armoured vehicles and installations, and close air support of ground forces.
- It was used in Baghdad last year to attack side streets where tanks were thought to be hiding.
- Correspondingly, would Rommel have achieved even greater success with his tactical genius and an endless supply of tanks and fuel?
- My tanks reached the northern side of the bridge leading to Saigon.
- Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds.
- Also for sale are evocative photographs of the Queen's Park works which was switched from making steam locomotives to producing tanks during the Second World War.
- Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies.
- They fought tanks, armored personnel carriers, jets and precision munitions with Datsun pickups.
Synonyms
armoured vehicle, armoured car, combat vehicle
German Panzer
3
a large class of 0-6-0 tanks
short for tank engine
4North American informal A cell in a police station or jail.
〈美，非正式〉（警察局或监狱的）牢房
Example sentencesExamples
- Get thrown in the tank and they let me out at 6am and give me back my shoe laces and bifocal sunglasses I don't even remember them and just kind of smiled when the girl was emptying the bag.
- I got thrown in once when I was underage, not to eventful though...tried to get a cop to drive me home, he said sure and drove me straight to the tank.
- And don't refrain from telling your friends: Among drunks, the real ones anyway, a night in the tank is a very large feather in the drinking cap.
Synonyms
dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, prison
5
short for tank top
Example sentencesExamples
- Her eyes were pink and puffy and from what I could see she was wearing only a black tank and her underwear.
- But I think that I will wear my pink tank with a jean skirt.
- Wear it over your favorite camisole or tank for a cool night out.
- Shown here is the aqua tiny tank that is perfect over one of those hot new bathing suits.
- I see a lot of girls on campus wearing tanks with their skirts.
- This season, remember to stock up on simple shirts with sleeves of all lengths and tanks.
- Are the boots able to be worn in the spring if pared with a short denim skirt and tank or are they snow boots?
- Sheer jerseys layer over t-shirts, vests and tanks.
- She picked up a robe that was laying across a stool, and slipped it on, after she had dressed in her usual black tank and trousers.
- She turned around and started to pick through his shirt drawer, once again, and came out with a white tank and another shirt that buttoned up.
- She'd put me in low, hip hugger jeans, a blue tank and a denim jacket.
- She had been using the sweatpants as pajama bottoms and her new tank as a pajama top.
- Close-fitting tees and tanks with loose pants work best.
- He had shining blue eyes and was wearing something I definitely liked: Cargo khaki pants, a white tank with a Hawaiian shirt.
- After some tough decisions I decided to wear a black mini skirt and a crimson shirt with a white tank underneath.
- I dressed in a white tank, jeans, and a matching denim jacket.
- I pulled on my silky pink lace tank, and my black tie jeans.
- I ran out of my house wearing a hot pink mini skirt and a black tank over it I had a black long sleeved fishnet shirt.
- The men wear khakis and cornflower-blue shirts, the women dressy tanks and knee-length skirts.
- Belly-bearing tanks, and halter dresses emphasized every curve on the mom-to-be.

verb taŋktæŋk

1no object Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
给车辆加油
the cars stopped to tank up
汽车停下来加油。
Example sentencesExamples
- "Let's go down to the town, tank the car up, get some flowers for your mother, and have lunch in MacDonald's".
- No drop in petrol prices so people will still head south to tank up while no drop in corporation tax means foreign investors will still favour the Irish Republic.
- Yesterday evening, when I'd recovered from the journey, I went over to Minehead for provisions and to tank up the car.
- Last August, GM showed the result: a gasoline processor that could allow fuel cell vehicles to tank up at local gas stations.
- As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly.
- The trick is figuring out how to hold hydrogen safely and at sufficient density to allow a typical car to go 500 kilometers or so before having to tank up.
1. 1.1be/get tanked upBritish informal Drink heavily; become drunk.
  〈非正式〉大量喝酒；喝醉
  they get tanked up before the game
  他们在比赛之前喝醉了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Did the previous writers mention that they dressed like they were hitting the beach at 3.00 a.m. tanked up on beer?
  "They're getting tanked up on those alcopop drinks and by the time it comes to midnight they're all over the place," he said.
  The ‘not so bright’ builder was tanked up on booze and decided that it would be fun to fire a loaded 11 mm pistol in a public area.
  You all know those kinds of drunks that no matter how tanked they get they still seem to get keep their wits.
  So we were tanking up, smoking, talking nonsense, enjoying the once-a-month concession to our younger selves our wives allow us.
  He, once it opened, headed straight to the bar, as if he hadn't drunk enough porter and whiskey and proceeded to tank up again.
  I was a cadet officer in those times - and I was a well-behaved one, before he tells me anything different - and one of the junior engineers got tanked up on a Greek plane with a Greek captain in charge.
  They were apparently all going to an under-18 disco at the Club in Swanley and had decided to get tanked up beforehand.
  He was reclining in his chair getting tanked on Uncle's home brew.
  They are all out getting tanked in the marquee, as most members opposite were until a few minutes ago.
  ‘This will result in either people staying in and drinking or getting tanked up before they go out,’ he said.
  They get out some booze and proceed to get tanked up like my Uncle at the ‘Family Reunion.’
  With most everyone tanked and soaked, the 10-hour nighttime drive to the Lake was unanimously the worst of the entire trip.
  Rather, it's the ones who travel to another country without any grasp of the language, get tanked up on booze, and sing ‘Two World Wars and One World Cup’ every time they see a German.
  A reasonable person would not be with the drunk driver while he's getting even more tanked up and still put him back behind the wheel.
  Perhaps alcohol consumption would be more responsible if fans could drink at grounds rather than feeling the need to get tanked up before the game.
  Fortified by carry-outs of strong lager and vodka, he would get tanked up before setting out to cause mayhem in the area.
  You can tank up on powerful Sake while you dine on their noodles, and you can knock back Martinis and Cosmos in the bar later on when the fashion elite make their entrances.
  It's unlicensed so if you need some bevvies to jumble up the courage, get tanked up elsewhere.
  The gist of it is, two fans are leaving a game, slightly tanked.
2US informal no object Fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
〈美，非正式〉彻底地失败（尤指巨大的财政损失）
the previous movie had tanked at the box office
Example sentencesExamples
- After a shaky second quarter, real gross domestic product entered the third quarter with a good head of steam even as the stock market was tanking.
- But if the market continues to slide, the recession rears up, and Republican numbers keep tanking, it will take more than the gerrymanderer's art to keep him in control of the House.
- For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press.
- The sense that a candidate is tanking - or on a roll - can make the difference between a potential donor making a contribution or keeping his checkbook in his pocket.
- As the rest of Asia's economies tanked during the financial crisis that began in 1997, Taiwan remained afloat.
- Some of these workers lost tens of thousands of dollars, in addition to their jobs, when the stock tanked and the company went bankrupt.
- He was also a billionaire for a few months before the stock tanked.
- While most of the recent rash of trashy comedies tanked at the box office, I would not be surprised if at least some made money anyways with such low budgets.
- As he points out, because of the market's gradual appreciation through the years despite occasionally tanking as it did this spring the longer the time horizon lower the variability of return on investment.
- The fact the film tanked at the box office is likely an indication it's out of its time, culturally speaking.
- I know a great deal about movies - what's tanking, what's opened wide, what's in turnaround, what the buzz is.
- Dot-coms may tank, but the empty offices they leave behind don't look quite as ugly.
- Had the book tanked and gone the deep discount route of so many widely unwanted Canadian books, it would have seemed highly irregular for us to wonder why it had failed to connect with people.
- It has been widely reported that profits have tanked over the past two years for OEMs and large publicly traded parts suppliers.
- That's because it's easy to point to the organization if a project tanks or gets cut off because of a perceived security hole.
- Subsequently, the film tanked at the box office, proving that when terror is on the rise, folks don't want to spend nine dollars to watch even more realistic horror unfold in their local multiplex.
- After all, during the Gulf War, sales of large gas-consuming vehicles literally tanked.
- After the music stopped and the stock tanked and they collapsed into bankruptcy, everyone on Wall Street pretended to be absolutely shocked that such a thing could happen.
- But, when the movie tanked, all bets for a sequel were off.
- The reason you haven't heard of them is because they tanked at the box office.
1. 2.1North American with object (in sport) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a match)
  〈北美，非正式〉（体育比赛中）故意输掉（或不比完）（比赛）
  the powerful baseliner had tanked the match
  Example sentencesExamples
  No, but while some teams choose to tank, others have a tanked season forced upon them.
  In fact reports say he even had to dodge the question of whether the Indians tanked the match!
  Fair or not, the team has earned a reputation as a team that tanks in tough situations.
  Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts.
  They simply tanked in the play-offs when he had to sit out with a hip injury…
  The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick.
  That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused.
  People who accuse teams of tanking it in order to get a higher draft pick don't understand the mentality that is prevalent in the National Football League.
  There are any numbers of instances where top players have ‘tanked’ first round matches just to get home early.
  And I always tried my best; I wouldn't tank matches.
  When asked last week about the possibility of a team tanking in the final days to improve its playoff position, the deputy commissioner said the league was not concerned.
  They became the second straight team with a top-ranked offense to tank on Super Bowl Sunday.
  On the other hand, maybe they knew what the evil player was up to and tanked to deprive him of one last baseball thrill.
  The team begins this season with a thrilling comeback against Washington State, then tanks the next three games.
3Scottish informal with object Defeat heavily.
〈非正式，主苏格兰〉使惨败
Rangers tanked the local side 8–0
流浪者队以8比0大败主场队。
Example sentencesExamples
- That must have been such a shaming thing to go back up to Manchester with: 6-3 by a team with the tiniest ground in the world and we tanked them.
- Do you see those guys really tanking him in 2004?
- Our next game is against Ireland, who were tanked by England yesterday.
- By the brutal code of Hollywood, if your big-budget television series isn't tanking the opposition after the first five episodes, it risks being binned.
- The team did do, tanked us 3-0 and stayed up.
Synonyms
beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish

Derivatives

tankful

nounPlural tankfuls ˈtaŋkfʊlˈtæŋkˌfʊl

It just reminded me of the time when they used to advertise that their cars would travel 400 miles on a tankful.
Example sentencesExamples
- Suppose motorists have to pay $3 a litre for their petrol, with a 50-litre tankful costing $150.
- A water heater's capacity is a result of two factors: storage and recovery time (how quickly it can heat a tankful of water).
- Today was the day for their fortnightly water change (no, not the whole tankful, just 10%).
- The typical food product in any supermarket has traveled more than 1,500 miles to get there, wasting tankfuls of energy, destroying both freshness and nutrition and denying shelf space to local producers.

tankless

adjective

A system is available in which a tankless gas water heater is installed outdoors and piped inside to the old electric storage tank, which is disconnected from its power supply.
Example sentencesExamples
- And a tankless hot-water heater provides warm water on demand, rather than consuming energy 24 hours a day.
- No separate storage tank is needed in the tankless coil water heater because water is heated directly inside the boiler in a hot water heating system.
- With that information, we'll be able to say with much more certainty what the propane and water savings should be with the tankless arrangement, and therefore compare costs over the lifetime of the alternatives.
- Armed with this information, we began our search for tankless hot water heaters that would meet all of these requirements.

Origin

Early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ '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.

In early 17th-century English, tank was the name given to a pool in India, going back to Sanskrit tadāga ‘pond’ and probably also influenced by the Portuguese word for ‘pond’, tangue. It was being used for a domestic container of liquid in the modern way by the end of the century. In 1915 tank was used as a secret code word for the armoured military vehicles that were first being made. A Times column of September 1916 remarked: ‘The name has the evident official advantage of being quite undescriptive.’ A sleeveless tank top is not so called because it was worn by the driver of a tank, but because it resembles the top part of a one-piece swimsuit known as a tank suit, worn in ‘swimming tanks’ or swimming pools. A drunk person has been tanked up since the 1890s. The comparison is with a vehicle filled with water or fuel from a tank.

Rhymes

ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, thank, yank

Definition of tank in US English:

tank

nountaNGktæŋk

1A large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas.
（尤指存放液体或气体的）大容器，箱，罐
Example sentencesExamples
- Storage tanks will also be built to treat stormwater.
- Probably the best system would have been to run them off natural gas and to have created storage tanks near the pumps in case the gas lines failed.
- There are eight raw storage tanks plus an outdoor silo for all liquid ingredients, with capacity totaling 54,000 gallons.
- There are temperature controlled fermenters and storage tanks, and good new oak barrels for maturation.
- He had breached several conditions of his licence by failing to notify the Petroleum Licensing Authority of his intention to discontinue the use of petroleum spirit storage tanks.
- Moreover, much of the water supply is deliberately contaminated by willful destruction of sewers, water pipes and storage tanks.
- Currently, the plant has two cream storage tanks and three raw milk storage tanks.
- Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was enough to cause plenty of drama.
- In fact, the effective storage of most hydro tanks is about 18 percent of the total volume.
- In Atlanta, a retired attorney of impeccable reputation was arrested for trying to take photos of some storage tanks.
- As you can see from the figure below, the baffle extends to the top of the tank, and the liquid passes through holes below the water line.
- Sperm is traditionally stored in large liquid nitrogen tanks together with a protective chemical that must be removed before fertilisation.
- The underground storage tanks for these chemicals (and you can be sure there were many in the Silicon Valley) sometimes leaked.
- With the boiler and storage tanks removed from the cinder block building, that seemed to be the best first place to look.
- New emission limits will be imposed on the company when recycled liquid fuel is used and purpose-built secure on-site storage tanks will be used to store the fuel.
- The protest forced the field to halt production in order to prevent its 2,000-barrel storage tanks from overflowing.
- The rainwater falling on the rooftop, which acts as the catchment area, is directed to the storage tank with the help of specially made channels using PVC pipes.
- The toxic waste flooded footpaths, flowed through a forest and onto playing fields after the storage tank on the road overflowed.
- Its oil refinery and farms of storage tanks disburse petroleum products to much of South-East Asia.
- We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank.
1. 1.1 The container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc.
  （汽车上的）油箱
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then the airflow is diffused, only to be recompressed and diffused again as it moves along the underside of the car past the muffler and the fuel tank.
  After spinning out in Saturday's qualifying, he would have started in the back of the pack anyway, so his team gave his car a fresh engine and a full tank of fuel as soon as the race started.
  The rear seat sat above the fuel tank, which was accessed via a filler door located low on the body side, just behind the driver's door.
  I get a free car for a week, brand spanking new, with that gorgeous new-car smell and most probably a full tank of petrol, to drive wherever I want?
  If so, he will not be as quick with a fuller tank of fuel come the first race.
  Fuel tanks could be considered the container of the lifeblood of your Mazda.
  The fuel tank still contained gasoline and the majority of rubber hoses and other rubber items were in such condition that they could be reused if wanted.
  This is why drivers are asked to turn off their automobile engines, and not smoke, when filling fuel tanks with gasoline.
  The car has been plagued by two recalls and at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws.
  Both plastic fuel tanks and plastic intake manifolds have experienced significant gains since 1995.
  This fitting design actually pressurizes the fuel tank and forces gasoline out of the fill pipe and it flows into the bilge.
  The fuel tank and exhaust pipe routing were modified slightly to accommodate the new subframe.
  Fuel tanks in the racing cars are located to the left of the driver so a two-seat conversion requires it to be moved to the rear of the car - no small job.
  In rural areas, there are normally only a few service stations, so when travelling long distances, be sure to leave with a full tank of fuel.
  A look at old race cars, with their exposed fuel tanks and absence of seatbelts, is a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the drivers once were.
  With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
  In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision.
  Self-sealing crashworthy fuel tanks have explosion suppression and non-return valves.
  But remember, a full tank of fuel costs £77 and lasts just over 300 miles.
  He notes, for example that there are additional opportunities for plastic fuel tanks.
  Synonyms
  container, receptacle, vat, cistern, barrel, storage chamber, repository, reservoir, holder, basin
2. 1.2 A receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium.
  鱼缸
  Example sentencesExamples
  They garden in the small areas around the house, put out the bird food, and feed the fish in the fish tanks.
  A fish tank bubbled quietly next to the sliding glass doors which looked out upon the lake.
  You can tell that the ‘underwater’ shots are filmed behind a tank of aquarium fish, plastic plants and all.
  I would have to say fish - I wanted a dog and my parents got us a fish tank.
  One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past.
  The workers raise chickens, grow their own vegetables, have a fish tank and rent out space for horses.
  We were walking through the aquarium, glass fish tanks surrounding us on all sides.
  Fish were held in large plastic tanks or large aquaria when not being used, and they were fed frozen chironomids and live damselfly larvae.
  Custom tanks for large specialty fish can run in the thousands of dollars, plus extra for proper heating and filtration.
  I soon go sit down in front of my fish tank and do a little meditation.
  The stimulus tanks also were supplied with airstones, but none of the tanks contained filters because they would have impeded the view of both the focal fish and the observer.
  At other shops the undercover vets found tarantulas and scorpions within reach of children, fish in murky tanks and ignorant staff who recommended dangerous animals for family homes.
  Despite the size of the sharks, she felt at ease in the underwater environment and helped clean the tank and feed the aquariums other fish.
  The first story is about a young Clownfish named Nemo who gets captured from his home in the ocean and wants to escape the domesticated captivity of a fish tank and find his way back to the sea.
  Feeding guppies in a fish tank has never been so much fun.
  After wiping mud from the fish she put it on its side in a tank of water and soon enough it was swimming around.
  Staff were asked to replace damaged glass tops to aquarium tanks, and they were also told that keeping an incubation facility in the zoo kitchen is ‘inappropriate’.
  The aquarium has also done some research and development on pressurized tanks to display fish, but a window on such a system has to be so small that only one or two people can look into a tank at a time.
  A new shark has been introduced with the sand tiger sharks into the tanks of a British aquarium.
  The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will continue to need access to the site to work on its 80 fish tanks.
  Synonyms
  aquarium, bowl
2A heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
坦克
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the advantages, few of the Army's tanks and armored fighting vehicles were lost to enemy action, and in most cases, their crews survived.
- The helicopters, accompanied by tanks and heavy Bradley fighting vehicles, arrived later than many expected.
- Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up.
- In short, tanks and troops alone will not win this struggle.
- Correspondingly, would Rommel have achieved even greater success with his tactical genius and an endless supply of tanks and fuel?
- There were tanks on both sides of the border and his regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected).
- Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague.
- Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies.
- My tanks reached the northern side of the bridge leading to Saigon.
- That night the cabinet rounded up the strike leaders and flooded Glasgow with tanks and trainloads of troops to break the strike.
- First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank.
- There is no doubt we have the finest tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the world.
- They fought tanks, armored personnel carriers, jets and precision munitions with Datsun pickups.
- The mission of the aircraft is ground attack against tanks, armoured vehicles and installations, and close air support of ground forces.
- Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs.
- The Marines have captured two bridges and moved hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, fuel trucks, Humvees and other military vehicles across them in the past few days.
- Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds.
- Also for sale are evocative photographs of the Queen's Park works which was switched from making steam locomotives to producing tanks during the Second World War.
- In the late hours of 16 November tanks, armoured vehicles and elite army units started to move towards the city centre.
- It was used in Baghdad last year to attack side streets where tanks were thought to be hiding.
Synonyms
armoured vehicle, armoured car, combat vehicle
3North American informal A cell in a police station or jail.
〈美，非正式〉（警察局或监狱的）牢房
Example sentencesExamples
- Get thrown in the tank and they let me out at 6am and give me back my shoe laces and bifocal sunglasses I don't even remember them and just kind of smiled when the girl was emptying the bag.
- I got thrown in once when I was underage, not to eventful though...tried to get a cop to drive me home, he said sure and drove me straight to the tank.
- And don't refrain from telling your friends: Among drunks, the real ones anyway, a night in the tank is a very large feather in the drinking cap.
Synonyms
dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, prison

verbtaNGktæŋk

[no object]

1Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
给车辆加油
the cars stopped to tank up
汽车停下来加油。
Example sentencesExamples
- No drop in petrol prices so people will still head south to tank up while no drop in corporation tax means foreign investors will still favour the Irish Republic.
- "Let's go down to the town, tank the car up, get some flowers for your mother, and have lunch in MacDonald's".
- Yesterday evening, when I'd recovered from the journey, I went over to Minehead for provisions and to tank up the car.
- The trick is figuring out how to hold hydrogen safely and at sufficient density to allow a typical car to go 500 kilometers or so before having to tank up.
- As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly.
- Last August, GM showed the result: a gasoline processor that could allow fuel cell vehicles to tank up at local gas stations.
1. 1.1be/get tanked upBritish informal Drink heavily; become drunk.
  〈非正式〉大量喝酒；喝醉
  they get tanked up before the game
  他们在比赛之前喝醉了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ‘not so bright’ builder was tanked up on booze and decided that it would be fun to fire a loaded 11 mm pistol in a public area.
  "They're getting tanked up on those alcopop drinks and by the time it comes to midnight they're all over the place," he said.
  Perhaps alcohol consumption would be more responsible if fans could drink at grounds rather than feeling the need to get tanked up before the game.
  They were apparently all going to an under-18 disco at the Club in Swanley and had decided to get tanked up beforehand.
  They are all out getting tanked in the marquee, as most members opposite were until a few minutes ago.
  With most everyone tanked and soaked, the 10-hour nighttime drive to the Lake was unanimously the worst of the entire trip.
  Rather, it's the ones who travel to another country without any grasp of the language, get tanked up on booze, and sing ‘Two World Wars and One World Cup’ every time they see a German.
  Fortified by carry-outs of strong lager and vodka, he would get tanked up before setting out to cause mayhem in the area.
  They get out some booze and proceed to get tanked up like my Uncle at the ‘Family Reunion.’
  You can tank up on powerful Sake while you dine on their noodles, and you can knock back Martinis and Cosmos in the bar later on when the fashion elite make their entrances.
  He was reclining in his chair getting tanked on Uncle's home brew.
  The gist of it is, two fans are leaving a game, slightly tanked.
  A reasonable person would not be with the drunk driver while he's getting even more tanked up and still put him back behind the wheel.
  ‘This will result in either people staying in and drinking or getting tanked up before they go out,’ he said.
  It's unlicensed so if you need some bevvies to jumble up the courage, get tanked up elsewhere.
  You all know those kinds of drunks that no matter how tanked they get they still seem to get keep their wits.
  I was a cadet officer in those times - and I was a well-behaved one, before he tells me anything different - and one of the junior engineers got tanked up on a Greek plane with a Greek captain in charge.
  So we were tanking up, smoking, talking nonsense, enjoying the once-a-month concession to our younger selves our wives allow us.
  He, once it opened, headed straight to the bar, as if he hadn't drunk enough porter and whiskey and proceeded to tank up again.
  Did the previous writers mention that they dressed like they were hitting the beach at 3.00 a.m. tanked up on beer?
2US informal Fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
〈美，非正式〉彻底地失败（尤指巨大的财政损失）
Example sentencesExamples
- But if the market continues to slide, the recession rears up, and Republican numbers keep tanking, it will take more than the gerrymanderer's art to keep him in control of the House.
- After the music stopped and the stock tanked and they collapsed into bankruptcy, everyone on Wall Street pretended to be absolutely shocked that such a thing could happen.
- The sense that a candidate is tanking - or on a roll - can make the difference between a potential donor making a contribution or keeping his checkbook in his pocket.
- Subsequently, the film tanked at the box office, proving that when terror is on the rise, folks don't want to spend nine dollars to watch even more realistic horror unfold in their local multiplex.
- I know a great deal about movies - what's tanking, what's opened wide, what's in turnaround, what the buzz is.
- After a shaky second quarter, real gross domestic product entered the third quarter with a good head of steam even as the stock market was tanking.
- As he points out, because of the market's gradual appreciation through the years despite occasionally tanking as it did this spring the longer the time horizon lower the variability of return on investment.
- Had the book tanked and gone the deep discount route of so many widely unwanted Canadian books, it would have seemed highly irregular for us to wonder why it had failed to connect with people.
- He was also a billionaire for a few months before the stock tanked.
- It has been widely reported that profits have tanked over the past two years for OEMs and large publicly traded parts suppliers.
- For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press.
- But, when the movie tanked, all bets for a sequel were off.
- That's because it's easy to point to the organization if a project tanks or gets cut off because of a perceived security hole.
- While most of the recent rash of trashy comedies tanked at the box office, I would not be surprised if at least some made money anyways with such low budgets.
- After all, during the Gulf War, sales of large gas-consuming vehicles literally tanked.
- The fact the film tanked at the box office is likely an indication it's out of its time, culturally speaking.
- Some of these workers lost tens of thousands of dollars, in addition to their jobs, when the stock tanked and the company went bankrupt.
- Dot-coms may tank, but the empty offices they leave behind don't look quite as ugly.
- As the rest of Asia's economies tanked during the financial crisis that began in 1997, Taiwan remained afloat.
- The reason you haven't heard of them is because they tanked at the box office.
1. 2.1North American with object (in sports) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a game)
  〈北美，非正式〉（体育比赛中）故意输掉（或不比完）（比赛）
  the lackluster performance prompted speculation that he tanked the second set
  Example sentencesExamples
  That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused.
  Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts.
  People who accuse teams of tanking it in order to get a higher draft pick don't understand the mentality that is prevalent in the National Football League.
  On the other hand, maybe they knew what the evil player was up to and tanked to deprive him of one last baseball thrill.
  They simply tanked in the play-offs when he had to sit out with a hip injury…
  The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick.
  They became the second straight team with a top-ranked offense to tank on Super Bowl Sunday.
  When asked last week about the possibility of a team tanking in the final days to improve its playoff position, the deputy commissioner said the league was not concerned.
  No, but while some teams choose to tank, others have a tanked season forced upon them.
  And I always tried my best; I wouldn't tank matches.
  There are any numbers of instances where top players have ‘tanked’ first round matches just to get home early.
  Fair or not, the team has earned a reputation as a team that tanks in tough situations.
  In fact reports say he even had to dodge the question of whether the Indians tanked the match!
  The team begins this season with a thrilling comeback against Washington State, then tanks the next three games.

Origin

Early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ ‘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.

词汇	tank
释义	Definition of tank in English: tank noun taŋktæŋk 1A large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas. （尤指存放液体或气体的）大容器，箱，罐 Example sentencesExamples The underground storage tanks for these chemicals (and you can be sure there were many in the Silicon Valley) sometimes leaked. The rainwater falling on the rooftop, which acts as the catchment area, is directed to the storage tank with the help of specially made channels using PVC pipes. Sperm is traditionally stored in large liquid nitrogen tanks together with a protective chemical that must be removed before fertilisation. The toxic waste flooded footpaths, flowed through a forest and onto playing fields after the storage tank on the road overflowed. Its oil refinery and farms of storage tanks disburse petroleum products to much of South-East Asia. In Atlanta, a retired attorney of impeccable reputation was arrested for trying to take photos of some storage tanks. In fact, the effective storage of most hydro tanks is about 18 percent of the total volume. Probably the best system would have been to run them off natural gas and to have created storage tanks near the pumps in case the gas lines failed. Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was enough to cause plenty of drama. Currently, the plant has two cream storage tanks and three raw milk storage tanks. The protest forced the field to halt production in order to prevent its 2,000-barrel storage tanks from overflowing. Storage tanks will also be built to treat stormwater. With the boiler and storage tanks removed from the cinder block building, that seemed to be the best first place to look. There are eight raw storage tanks plus an outdoor silo for all liquid ingredients, with capacity totaling 54,000 gallons. There are temperature controlled fermenters and storage tanks, and good new oak barrels for maturation. We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank. New emission limits will be imposed on the company when recycled liquid fuel is used and purpose-built secure on-site storage tanks will be used to store the fuel. As you can see from the figure below, the baffle extends to the top of the tank, and the liquid passes through holes below the water line. He had breached several conditions of his licence by failing to notify the Petroleum Licensing Authority of his intention to discontinue the use of petroleum spirit storage tanks. Moreover, much of the water supply is deliberately contaminated by willful destruction of sewers, water pipes and storage tanks. 1.1 The container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc. （汽车上的）油箱 the trucks all had a full tank of gasoline Example sentencesExamples With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential. After spinning out in Saturday's qualifying, he would have started in the back of the pack anyway, so his team gave his car a fresh engine and a full tank of fuel as soon as the race started. Self-sealing crashworthy fuel tanks have explosion suppression and non-return valves. He notes, for example that there are additional opportunities for plastic fuel tanks. Fuel tanks could be considered the container of the lifeblood of your Mazda. If so, he will not be as quick with a fuller tank of fuel come the first race. I get a free car for a week, brand spanking new, with that gorgeous new-car smell and most probably a full tank of petrol, to drive wherever I want? Both plastic fuel tanks and plastic intake manifolds have experienced significant gains since 1995. Fuel tanks in the racing cars are located to the left of the driver so a two-seat conversion requires it to be moved to the rear of the car - no small job. But remember, a full tank of fuel costs £77 and lasts just over 300 miles. The fuel tank still contained gasoline and the majority of rubber hoses and other rubber items were in such condition that they could be reused if wanted. Then the airflow is diffused, only to be recompressed and diffused again as it moves along the underside of the car past the muffler and the fuel tank. This fitting design actually pressurizes the fuel tank and forces gasoline out of the fill pipe and it flows into the bilge. The car has been plagued by two recalls and at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws. The fuel tank and exhaust pipe routing were modified slightly to accommodate the new subframe. In rural areas, there are normally only a few service stations, so when travelling long distances, be sure to leave with a full tank of fuel. The rear seat sat above the fuel tank, which was accessed via a filler door located low on the body side, just behind the driver's door. In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision. A look at old race cars, with their exposed fuel tanks and absence of seatbelts, is a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the drivers once were. This is why drivers are asked to turn off their automobile engines, and not smoke, when filling fuel tanks with gasoline. Synonyms container, receptacle, vat, cistern, barrel, storage chamber, repository, reservoir, holder, basin 1.2 A receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium. 鱼缸 Example sentencesExamples After wiping mud from the fish she put it on its side in a tank of water and soon enough it was swimming around. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will continue to need access to the site to work on its 80 fish tanks. The workers raise chickens, grow their own vegetables, have a fish tank and rent out space for horses. A fish tank bubbled quietly next to the sliding glass doors which looked out upon the lake. The aquarium has also done some research and development on pressurized tanks to display fish, but a window on such a system has to be so small that only one or two people can look into a tank at a time. The first story is about a young Clownfish named Nemo who gets captured from his home in the ocean and wants to escape the domesticated captivity of a fish tank and find his way back to the sea. Staff were asked to replace damaged glass tops to aquarium tanks, and they were also told that keeping an incubation facility in the zoo kitchen is ‘inappropriate’. The stimulus tanks also were supplied with airstones, but none of the tanks contained filters because they would have impeded the view of both the focal fish and the observer. Despite the size of the sharks, she felt at ease in the underwater environment and helped clean the tank and feed the aquariums other fish. At other shops the undercover vets found tarantulas and scorpions within reach of children, fish in murky tanks and ignorant staff who recommended dangerous animals for family homes. You can tell that the ‘underwater’ shots are filmed behind a tank of aquarium fish, plastic plants and all. Feeding guppies in a fish tank has never been so much fun. Custom tanks for large specialty fish can run in the thousands of dollars, plus extra for proper heating and filtration. I would have to say fish - I wanted a dog and my parents got us a fish tank. We were walking through the aquarium, glass fish tanks surrounding us on all sides. Fish were held in large plastic tanks or large aquaria when not being used, and they were fed frozen chironomids and live damselfly larvae. One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past. I soon go sit down in front of my fish tank and do a little meditation. They garden in the small areas around the house, put out the bird food, and feed the fish in the fish tanks. A new shark has been introduced with the sand tiger sharks into the tanks of a British aquarium. Synonyms aquarium, bowl 1.3Australian, Indian, NZ A reservoir. 〈印度，澳/新西兰〉蓄水池 Example sentencesExamples Moreover, to stop the waste pouring in from the hamlets around the lake, the department is laying under-lake sewer tanks. With the light showers, the water level improved in the tank. What seems to have gone wrong is that many of the storm water drains that followed the natural alignment and drained off excess water into tanks and lakes are no longer in a functional state. This year the tank has a good water level even by end May. About five million families mostly rural still fetch drinking water from ponds, tanks, rivers and springs. The Government should initiate a census of water resources in the State such as the number of wells, ponds and tanks and necessary law should be framed to protect these resources. The other seven tanks were also desilted and water level rose in the surrounding areas. Again, the Building Code could require that new houses have water tanks so that the demand for water from reticulated services is reduced. Rainwater tanks and stormwater harvesting are mentioned as alternative water sources but little detail is provided. "I have sent proposals to the State Government to target these lakes as potential groundwater recharge tanks," he said, hoping that his plans would come true. We had a small tank to catch the rain water from the roof, but we never used this for drinking purposes, and anyway it lasted only a few days unless rain fell at regular intervals. Clouds gather, sometimes developing into a cyclone but will a water-starved Chennai see its tanks, lakes, wells and reservoirs full this year? Through the ages, Indian agriculture has been sustained by natural and man-made water bodies such as lakes, tanks, ponds and similar structures. In spite of being the second largest arid zone in the country, Karnataka has been a blessed State with plenty of rainfall in the catchment areas of its rivers, lakes and tanks. Polluted tanks, lakes and rivers, perils faced by the ecosystem and a host of other problems have only reinforced the need to go in for joint action to achieve the desired goals. The Thippagondanahalli Reservoir, Bannerghatta National Park and several lakes and tanks are covered for protection and conservation. The water available in villages is drawn from wells sunk in tanks and lakes. The two agencies have been studying the feasibility of building sewage treatment plants around lakes and tanks for the restoration of the water bodies. What with mandatory water tanks, dual flush toilets, water saving shower heads and front loading washing machines, he is full of bright ideas. The water tanks are phase one of a water improvement programme for the island and the next phase will involve building a public reservoir, he says. 2A heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track. 坦克 Example sentencesExamples Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague. There were tanks on both sides of the border and his regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected). There is no doubt we have the finest tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the world. Among the advantages, few of the Army's tanks and armored fighting vehicles were lost to enemy action, and in most cases, their crews survived. Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up. That night the cabinet rounded up the strike leaders and flooded Glasgow with tanks and trainloads of troops to break the strike. Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs. First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank. In the late hours of 16 November tanks, armoured vehicles and elite army units started to move towards the city centre. The Marines have captured two bridges and moved hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, fuel trucks, Humvees and other military vehicles across them in the past few days. In short, tanks and troops alone will not win this struggle. The helicopters, accompanied by tanks and heavy Bradley fighting vehicles, arrived later than many expected. The mission of the aircraft is ground attack against tanks, armoured vehicles and installations, and close air support of ground forces. It was used in Baghdad last year to attack side streets where tanks were thought to be hiding. Correspondingly, would Rommel have achieved even greater success with his tactical genius and an endless supply of tanks and fuel? My tanks reached the northern side of the bridge leading to Saigon. Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds. Also for sale are evocative photographs of the Queen's Park works which was switched from making steam locomotives to producing tanks during the Second World War. Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies. They fought tanks, armored personnel carriers, jets and precision munitions with Datsun pickups. Synonyms armoured vehicle, armoured car, combat vehicle German Panzer 3 a large class of 0-6-0 tanks short for tank engine 4North American informal A cell in a police station or jail. 〈美，非正式〉（警察局或监狱的）牢房 Example sentencesExamples Get thrown in the tank and they let me out at 6am and give me back my shoe laces and bifocal sunglasses I don't even remember them and just kind of smiled when the girl was emptying the bag. I got thrown in once when I was underage, not to eventful though...tried to get a cop to drive me home, he said sure and drove me straight to the tank. And don't refrain from telling your friends: Among drunks, the real ones anyway, a night in the tank is a very large feather in the drinking cap. Synonyms dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, prison 5 short for tank top Example sentencesExamples Her eyes were pink and puffy and from what I could see she was wearing only a black tank and her underwear. But I think that I will wear my pink tank with a jean skirt. Wear it over your favorite camisole or tank for a cool night out. Shown here is the aqua tiny tank that is perfect over one of those hot new bathing suits. I see a lot of girls on campus wearing tanks with their skirts. This season, remember to stock up on simple shirts with sleeves of all lengths and tanks. Are the boots able to be worn in the spring if pared with a short denim skirt and tank or are they snow boots? Sheer jerseys layer over t-shirts, vests and tanks. She picked up a robe that was laying across a stool, and slipped it on, after she had dressed in her usual black tank and trousers. She turned around and started to pick through his shirt drawer, once again, and came out with a white tank and another shirt that buttoned up. She'd put me in low, hip hugger jeans, a blue tank and a denim jacket. She had been using the sweatpants as pajama bottoms and her new tank as a pajama top. Close-fitting tees and tanks with loose pants work best. He had shining blue eyes and was wearing something I definitely liked: Cargo khaki pants, a white tank with a Hawaiian shirt. After some tough decisions I decided to wear a black mini skirt and a crimson shirt with a white tank underneath. I dressed in a white tank, jeans, and a matching denim jacket. I pulled on my silky pink lace tank, and my black tie jeans. I ran out of my house wearing a hot pink mini skirt and a black tank over it I had a black long sleeved fishnet shirt. The men wear khakis and cornflower-blue shirts, the women dressy tanks and knee-length skirts. Belly-bearing tanks, and halter dresses emphasized every curve on the mom-to-be. verb taŋktæŋk 1no object Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel. 给车辆加油 the cars stopped to tank up 汽车停下来加油。 Example sentencesExamples "Let's go down to the town, tank the car up, get some flowers for your mother, and have lunch in MacDonald's". No drop in petrol prices so people will still head south to tank up while no drop in corporation tax means foreign investors will still favour the Irish Republic. Yesterday evening, when I'd recovered from the journey, I went over to Minehead for provisions and to tank up the car. Last August, GM showed the result: a gasoline processor that could allow fuel cell vehicles to tank up at local gas stations. As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly. The trick is figuring out how to hold hydrogen safely and at sufficient density to allow a typical car to go 500 kilometers or so before having to tank up. 1.1be/get tanked upBritish informal Drink heavily; become drunk. 〈非正式〉大量喝酒；喝醉 they get tanked up before the game 他们在比赛之前喝醉了。 Example sentencesExamples Did the previous writers mention that they dressed like they were hitting the beach at 3.00 a.m. tanked up on beer? "They're getting tanked up on those alcopop drinks and by the time it comes to midnight they're all over the place," he said. The ‘not so bright’ builder was tanked up on booze and decided that it would be fun to fire a loaded 11 mm pistol in a public area. You all know those kinds of drunks that no matter how tanked they get they still seem to get keep their wits. So we were tanking up, smoking, talking nonsense, enjoying the once-a-month concession to our younger selves our wives allow us. He, once it opened, headed straight to the bar, as if he hadn't drunk enough porter and whiskey and proceeded to tank up again. I was a cadet officer in those times - and I was a well-behaved one, before he tells me anything different - and one of the junior engineers got tanked up on a Greek plane with a Greek captain in charge. They were apparently all going to an under-18 disco at the Club in Swanley and had decided to get tanked up beforehand. He was reclining in his chair getting tanked on Uncle's home brew. They are all out getting tanked in the marquee, as most members opposite were until a few minutes ago. ‘This will result in either people staying in and drinking or getting tanked up before they go out,’ he said. They get out some booze and proceed to get tanked up like my Uncle at the ‘Family Reunion.’ With most everyone tanked and soaked, the 10-hour nighttime drive to the Lake was unanimously the worst of the entire trip. Rather, it's the ones who travel to another country without any grasp of the language, get tanked up on booze, and sing ‘Two World Wars and One World Cup’ every time they see a German. A reasonable person would not be with the drunk driver while he's getting even more tanked up and still put him back behind the wheel. Perhaps alcohol consumption would be more responsible if fans could drink at grounds rather than feeling the need to get tanked up before the game. Fortified by carry-outs of strong lager and vodka, he would get tanked up before setting out to cause mayhem in the area. You can tank up on powerful Sake while you dine on their noodles, and you can knock back Martinis and Cosmos in the bar later on when the fashion elite make their entrances. It's unlicensed so if you need some bevvies to jumble up the courage, get tanked up elsewhere. The gist of it is, two fans are leaving a game, slightly tanked. 2US informal no object Fail completely, especially at great financial cost. 〈美，非正式〉彻底地失败（尤指巨大的财政损失） the previous movie had tanked at the box office Example sentencesExamples After a shaky second quarter, real gross domestic product entered the third quarter with a good head of steam even as the stock market was tanking. But if the market continues to slide, the recession rears up, and Republican numbers keep tanking, it will take more than the gerrymanderer's art to keep him in control of the House. For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press. The sense that a candidate is tanking - or on a roll - can make the difference between a potential donor making a contribution or keeping his checkbook in his pocket. As the rest of Asia's economies tanked during the financial crisis that began in 1997, Taiwan remained afloat. Some of these workers lost tens of thousands of dollars, in addition to their jobs, when the stock tanked and the company went bankrupt. He was also a billionaire for a few months before the stock tanked. While most of the recent rash of trashy comedies tanked at the box office, I would not be surprised if at least some made money anyways with such low budgets. As he points out, because of the market's gradual appreciation through the years despite occasionally tanking as it did this spring the longer the time horizon lower the variability of return on investment. The fact the film tanked at the box office is likely an indication it's out of its time, culturally speaking. I know a great deal about movies - what's tanking, what's opened wide, what's in turnaround, what the buzz is. Dot-coms may tank, but the empty offices they leave behind don't look quite as ugly. Had the book tanked and gone the deep discount route of so many widely unwanted Canadian books, it would have seemed highly irregular for us to wonder why it had failed to connect with people. It has been widely reported that profits have tanked over the past two years for OEMs and large publicly traded parts suppliers. That's because it's easy to point to the organization if a project tanks or gets cut off because of a perceived security hole. Subsequently, the film tanked at the box office, proving that when terror is on the rise, folks don't want to spend nine dollars to watch even more realistic horror unfold in their local multiplex. After all, during the Gulf War, sales of large gas-consuming vehicles literally tanked. After the music stopped and the stock tanked and they collapsed into bankruptcy, everyone on Wall Street pretended to be absolutely shocked that such a thing could happen. But, when the movie tanked, all bets for a sequel were off. The reason you haven't heard of them is because they tanked at the box office. 2.1North American with object (in sport) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a match) 〈北美，非正式〉（体育比赛中）故意输掉（或不比完）（比赛） the powerful baseliner had tanked the match Example sentencesExamples No, but while some teams choose to tank, others have a tanked season forced upon them. In fact reports say he even had to dodge the question of whether the Indians tanked the match! Fair or not, the team has earned a reputation as a team that tanks in tough situations. Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts. They simply tanked in the play-offs when he had to sit out with a hip injury… The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick. That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused. People who accuse teams of tanking it in order to get a higher draft pick don't understand the mentality that is prevalent in the National Football League. There are any numbers of instances where top players have ‘tanked’ first round matches just to get home early. And I always tried my best; I wouldn't tank matches. When asked last week about the possibility of a team tanking in the final days to improve its playoff position, the deputy commissioner said the league was not concerned. They became the second straight team with a top-ranked offense to tank on Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, maybe they knew what the evil player was up to and tanked to deprive him of one last baseball thrill. The team begins this season with a thrilling comeback against Washington State, then tanks the next three games. 3Scottish informal with object Defeat heavily. 〈非正式，主苏格兰〉使惨败 Rangers tanked the local side 8–0 流浪者队以8比0大败主场队。 Example sentencesExamples That must have been such a shaming thing to go back up to Manchester with: 6-3 by a team with the tiniest ground in the world and we tanked them. Do you see those guys really tanking him in 2004? Our next game is against Ireland, who were tanked by England yesterday. By the brutal code of Hollywood, if your big-budget television series isn't tanking the opposition after the first five episodes, it risks being binned. The team did do, tanked us 3-0 and stayed up. Synonyms beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish Derivatives tankful nounPlural tankfuls ˈtaŋkfʊlˈtæŋkˌfʊl It just reminded me of the time when they used to advertise that their cars would travel 400 miles on a tankful. Example sentencesExamples Suppose motorists have to pay $3 a litre for their petrol, with a 50-litre tankful costing $150. A water heater's capacity is a result of two factors: storage and recovery time (how quickly it can heat a tankful of water). Today was the day for their fortnightly water change (no, not the whole tankful, just 10%). The typical food product in any supermarket has traveled more than 1,500 miles to get there, wasting tankfuls of energy, destroying both freshness and nutrition and denying shelf space to local producers. tankless adjective A system is available in which a tankless gas water heater is installed outdoors and piped inside to the old electric storage tank, which is disconnected from its power supply. Example sentencesExamples And a tankless hot-water heater provides warm water on demand, rather than consuming energy 24 hours a day. No separate storage tank is needed in the tankless coil water heater because water is heated directly inside the boiler in a hot water heating system. With that information, we'll be able to say with much more certainty what the propane and water savings should be with the tankless arrangement, and therefore compare costs over the lifetime of the alternatives. Armed with this information, we began our search for tankless hot water heaters that would meet all of these requirements. Origin Early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ '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. In early 17th-century English, tank was the name given to a pool in India, going back to Sanskrit tadāga ‘pond’ and probably also influenced by the Portuguese word for ‘pond’, tangue. It was being used for a domestic container of liquid in the modern way by the end of the century. In 1915 tank was used as a secret code word for the armoured military vehicles that were first being made. A Times column of September 1916 remarked: ‘The name has the evident official advantage of being quite undescriptive.’ A sleeveless tank top is not so called because it was worn by the driver of a tank, but because it resembles the top part of a one-piece swimsuit known as a tank suit, worn in ‘swimming tanks’ or swimming pools. A drunk person has been tanked up since the 1890s. The comparison is with a vehicle filled with water or fuel from a tank. Rhymes ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, thank, yank Definition of tank in US English: tank nountaNGktæŋk 1A large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas. （尤指存放液体或气体的）大容器，箱，罐 Example sentencesExamples Storage tanks will also be built to treat stormwater. Probably the best system would have been to run them off natural gas and to have created storage tanks near the pumps in case the gas lines failed. There are eight raw storage tanks plus an outdoor silo for all liquid ingredients, with capacity totaling 54,000 gallons. There are temperature controlled fermenters and storage tanks, and good new oak barrels for maturation. He had breached several conditions of his licence by failing to notify the Petroleum Licensing Authority of his intention to discontinue the use of petroleum spirit storage tanks. Moreover, much of the water supply is deliberately contaminated by willful destruction of sewers, water pipes and storage tanks. Currently, the plant has two cream storage tanks and three raw milk storage tanks. Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was enough to cause plenty of drama. In fact, the effective storage of most hydro tanks is about 18 percent of the total volume. In Atlanta, a retired attorney of impeccable reputation was arrested for trying to take photos of some storage tanks. As you can see from the figure below, the baffle extends to the top of the tank, and the liquid passes through holes below the water line. Sperm is traditionally stored in large liquid nitrogen tanks together with a protective chemical that must be removed before fertilisation. The underground storage tanks for these chemicals (and you can be sure there were many in the Silicon Valley) sometimes leaked. With the boiler and storage tanks removed from the cinder block building, that seemed to be the best first place to look. New emission limits will be imposed on the company when recycled liquid fuel is used and purpose-built secure on-site storage tanks will be used to store the fuel. The protest forced the field to halt production in order to prevent its 2,000-barrel storage tanks from overflowing. The rainwater falling on the rooftop, which acts as the catchment area, is directed to the storage tank with the help of specially made channels using PVC pipes. The toxic waste flooded footpaths, flowed through a forest and onto playing fields after the storage tank on the road overflowed. Its oil refinery and farms of storage tanks disburse petroleum products to much of South-East Asia. We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank. 1.1 The container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc. （汽车上的）油箱 Example sentencesExamples Then the airflow is diffused, only to be recompressed and diffused again as it moves along the underside of the car past the muffler and the fuel tank. After spinning out in Saturday's qualifying, he would have started in the back of the pack anyway, so his team gave his car a fresh engine and a full tank of fuel as soon as the race started. The rear seat sat above the fuel tank, which was accessed via a filler door located low on the body side, just behind the driver's door. I get a free car for a week, brand spanking new, with that gorgeous new-car smell and most probably a full tank of petrol, to drive wherever I want? If so, he will not be as quick with a fuller tank of fuel come the first race. Fuel tanks could be considered the container of the lifeblood of your Mazda. The fuel tank still contained gasoline and the majority of rubber hoses and other rubber items were in such condition that they could be reused if wanted. This is why drivers are asked to turn off their automobile engines, and not smoke, when filling fuel tanks with gasoline. The car has been plagued by two recalls and at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws. Both plastic fuel tanks and plastic intake manifolds have experienced significant gains since 1995. This fitting design actually pressurizes the fuel tank and forces gasoline out of the fill pipe and it flows into the bilge. The fuel tank and exhaust pipe routing were modified slightly to accommodate the new subframe. Fuel tanks in the racing cars are located to the left of the driver so a two-seat conversion requires it to be moved to the rear of the car - no small job. In rural areas, there are normally only a few service stations, so when travelling long distances, be sure to leave with a full tank of fuel. A look at old race cars, with their exposed fuel tanks and absence of seatbelts, is a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the drivers once were. With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential. In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision. Self-sealing crashworthy fuel tanks have explosion suppression and non-return valves. But remember, a full tank of fuel costs £77 and lasts just over 300 miles. He notes, for example that there are additional opportunities for plastic fuel tanks. Synonyms container, receptacle, vat, cistern, barrel, storage chamber, repository, reservoir, holder, basin 1.2 A receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium. 鱼缸 Example sentencesExamples They garden in the small areas around the house, put out the bird food, and feed the fish in the fish tanks. A fish tank bubbled quietly next to the sliding glass doors which looked out upon the lake. You can tell that the ‘underwater’ shots are filmed behind a tank of aquarium fish, plastic plants and all. I would have to say fish - I wanted a dog and my parents got us a fish tank. One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past. The workers raise chickens, grow their own vegetables, have a fish tank and rent out space for horses. We were walking through the aquarium, glass fish tanks surrounding us on all sides. Fish were held in large plastic tanks or large aquaria when not being used, and they were fed frozen chironomids and live damselfly larvae. Custom tanks for large specialty fish can run in the thousands of dollars, plus extra for proper heating and filtration. I soon go sit down in front of my fish tank and do a little meditation. The stimulus tanks also were supplied with airstones, but none of the tanks contained filters because they would have impeded the view of both the focal fish and the observer. At other shops the undercover vets found tarantulas and scorpions within reach of children, fish in murky tanks and ignorant staff who recommended dangerous animals for family homes. Despite the size of the sharks, she felt at ease in the underwater environment and helped clean the tank and feed the aquariums other fish. The first story is about a young Clownfish named Nemo who gets captured from his home in the ocean and wants to escape the domesticated captivity of a fish tank and find his way back to the sea. Feeding guppies in a fish tank has never been so much fun. After wiping mud from the fish she put it on its side in a tank of water and soon enough it was swimming around. Staff were asked to replace damaged glass tops to aquarium tanks, and they were also told that keeping an incubation facility in the zoo kitchen is ‘inappropriate’. The aquarium has also done some research and development on pressurized tanks to display fish, but a window on such a system has to be so small that only one or two people can look into a tank at a time. A new shark has been introduced with the sand tiger sharks into the tanks of a British aquarium. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will continue to need access to the site to work on its 80 fish tanks. Synonyms aquarium, bowl 2A heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track. 坦克 Example sentencesExamples Among the advantages, few of the Army's tanks and armored fighting vehicles were lost to enemy action, and in most cases, their crews survived. The helicopters, accompanied by tanks and heavy Bradley fighting vehicles, arrived later than many expected. Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up. In short, tanks and troops alone will not win this struggle. Correspondingly, would Rommel have achieved even greater success with his tactical genius and an endless supply of tanks and fuel? There were tanks on both sides of the border and his regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected). Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague. Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies. My tanks reached the northern side of the bridge leading to Saigon. That night the cabinet rounded up the strike leaders and flooded Glasgow with tanks and trainloads of troops to break the strike. First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank. There is no doubt we have the finest tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the world. They fought tanks, armored personnel carriers, jets and precision munitions with Datsun pickups. The mission of the aircraft is ground attack against tanks, armoured vehicles and installations, and close air support of ground forces. Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs. The Marines have captured two bridges and moved hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, fuel trucks, Humvees and other military vehicles across them in the past few days. Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds. Also for sale are evocative photographs of the Queen's Park works which was switched from making steam locomotives to producing tanks during the Second World War. In the late hours of 16 November tanks, armoured vehicles and elite army units started to move towards the city centre. It was used in Baghdad last year to attack side streets where tanks were thought to be hiding. Synonyms armoured vehicle, armoured car, combat vehicle 3North American informal A cell in a police station or jail. 〈美，非正式〉（警察局或监狱的）牢房 Example sentencesExamples Get thrown in the tank and they let me out at 6am and give me back my shoe laces and bifocal sunglasses I don't even remember them and just kind of smiled when the girl was emptying the bag. I got thrown in once when I was underage, not to eventful though...tried to get a cop to drive me home, he said sure and drove me straight to the tank. And don't refrain from telling your friends: Among drunks, the real ones anyway, a night in the tank is a very large feather in the drinking cap. Synonyms dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, prison verbtaNGktæŋk [no object] 1Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel. 给车辆加油 the cars stopped to tank up 汽车停下来加油。 Example sentencesExamples No drop in petrol prices so people will still head south to tank up while no drop in corporation tax means foreign investors will still favour the Irish Republic. "Let's go down to the town, tank the car up, get some flowers for your mother, and have lunch in MacDonald's". Yesterday evening, when I'd recovered from the journey, I went over to Minehead for provisions and to tank up the car. The trick is figuring out how to hold hydrogen safely and at sufficient density to allow a typical car to go 500 kilometers or so before having to tank up. As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly. Last August, GM showed the result: a gasoline processor that could allow fuel cell vehicles to tank up at local gas stations. 1.1be/get tanked upBritish informal Drink heavily; become drunk. 〈非正式〉大量喝酒；喝醉 they get tanked up before the game 他们在比赛之前喝醉了。 Example sentencesExamples The ‘not so bright’ builder was tanked up on booze and decided that it would be fun to fire a loaded 11 mm pistol in a public area. "They're getting tanked up on those alcopop drinks and by the time it comes to midnight they're all over the place," he said. Perhaps alcohol consumption would be more responsible if fans could drink at grounds rather than feeling the need to get tanked up before the game. They were apparently all going to an under-18 disco at the Club in Swanley and had decided to get tanked up beforehand. They are all out getting tanked in the marquee, as most members opposite were until a few minutes ago. With most everyone tanked and soaked, the 10-hour nighttime drive to the Lake was unanimously the worst of the entire trip. Rather, it's the ones who travel to another country without any grasp of the language, get tanked up on booze, and sing ‘Two World Wars and One World Cup’ every time they see a German. Fortified by carry-outs of strong lager and vodka, he would get tanked up before setting out to cause mayhem in the area. They get out some booze and proceed to get tanked up like my Uncle at the ‘Family Reunion.’ You can tank up on powerful Sake while you dine on their noodles, and you can knock back Martinis and Cosmos in the bar later on when the fashion elite make their entrances. He was reclining in his chair getting tanked on Uncle's home brew. The gist of it is, two fans are leaving a game, slightly tanked. A reasonable person would not be with the drunk driver while he's getting even more tanked up and still put him back behind the wheel. ‘This will result in either people staying in and drinking or getting tanked up before they go out,’ he said. It's unlicensed so if you need some bevvies to jumble up the courage, get tanked up elsewhere. You all know those kinds of drunks that no matter how tanked they get they still seem to get keep their wits. I was a cadet officer in those times - and I was a well-behaved one, before he tells me anything different - and one of the junior engineers got tanked up on a Greek plane with a Greek captain in charge. So we were tanking up, smoking, talking nonsense, enjoying the once-a-month concession to our younger selves our wives allow us. He, once it opened, headed straight to the bar, as if he hadn't drunk enough porter and whiskey and proceeded to tank up again. Did the previous writers mention that they dressed like they were hitting the beach at 3.00 a.m. tanked up on beer? 2US informal Fail completely, especially at great financial cost. 〈美，非正式〉彻底地失败（尤指巨大的财政损失） Example sentencesExamples But if the market continues to slide, the recession rears up, and Republican numbers keep tanking, it will take more than the gerrymanderer's art to keep him in control of the House. After the music stopped and the stock tanked and they collapsed into bankruptcy, everyone on Wall Street pretended to be absolutely shocked that such a thing could happen. The sense that a candidate is tanking - or on a roll - can make the difference between a potential donor making a contribution or keeping his checkbook in his pocket. Subsequently, the film tanked at the box office, proving that when terror is on the rise, folks don't want to spend nine dollars to watch even more realistic horror unfold in their local multiplex. I know a great deal about movies - what's tanking, what's opened wide, what's in turnaround, what the buzz is. After a shaky second quarter, real gross domestic product entered the third quarter with a good head of steam even as the stock market was tanking. As he points out, because of the market's gradual appreciation through the years despite occasionally tanking as it did this spring the longer the time horizon lower the variability of return on investment. Had the book tanked and gone the deep discount route of so many widely unwanted Canadian books, it would have seemed highly irregular for us to wonder why it had failed to connect with people. He was also a billionaire for a few months before the stock tanked. It has been widely reported that profits have tanked over the past two years for OEMs and large publicly traded parts suppliers. For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press. But, when the movie tanked, all bets for a sequel were off. That's because it's easy to point to the organization if a project tanks or gets cut off because of a perceived security hole. While most of the recent rash of trashy comedies tanked at the box office, I would not be surprised if at least some made money anyways with such low budgets. After all, during the Gulf War, sales of large gas-consuming vehicles literally tanked. The fact the film tanked at the box office is likely an indication it's out of its time, culturally speaking. Some of these workers lost tens of thousands of dollars, in addition to their jobs, when the stock tanked and the company went bankrupt. Dot-coms may tank, but the empty offices they leave behind don't look quite as ugly. As the rest of Asia's economies tanked during the financial crisis that began in 1997, Taiwan remained afloat. The reason you haven't heard of them is because they tanked at the box office. 2.1North American with object (in sports) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a game) 〈北美，非正式〉（体育比赛中）故意输掉（或不比完）（比赛） the lackluster performance prompted speculation that he tanked the second set Example sentencesExamples That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused. Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts. People who accuse teams of tanking it in order to get a higher draft pick don't understand the mentality that is prevalent in the National Football League. On the other hand, maybe they knew what the evil player was up to and tanked to deprive him of one last baseball thrill. They simply tanked in the play-offs when he had to sit out with a hip injury… The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick. They became the second straight team with a top-ranked offense to tank on Super Bowl Sunday. When asked last week about the possibility of a team tanking in the final days to improve its playoff position, the deputy commissioner said the league was not concerned. No, but while some teams choose to tank, others have a tanked season forced upon them. And I always tried my best; I wouldn't tank matches. There are any numbers of instances where top players have ‘tanked’ first round matches just to get home early. Fair or not, the team has earned a reputation as a team that tanks in tough situations. In fact reports say he even had to dodge the question of whether the Indians tanked the match! The team begins this season with a thrilling comeback against Washington State, then tanks the next three games. Origin Early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ ‘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.
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