English Dictionary

tank

IPA（発音記号）

/tæŋk/

名詞

オーストラリア英語 インド 南西部方言 テキサス英語 アメリカ英語 俗語 略語 別表記

A closed container for liquids or gases. / An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. / A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. / The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

日本語の意味

液体または気体を保持するための密閉された容器 / 水やその他の液体を保存するための、開放された容器またはプール / 池、プール、小さな湖（自然または人工のもの） / 車両の燃料タンク

After the storm, the old fuel tank behind the barn began to leak, contaminating the soil.

嵐の後、納屋の裏にあった古い燃料貯蔵槽が漏れ始め、土壌を汚染しました。

意味（1）

A closed container for liquids or gases.

The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.

意味（2）

An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

意味（3）

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

The tanks are full and the grass is high.

意味（4）

The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

意味（5）

The amount held by a container; a tankful.

I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.

意味（6）

An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

意味（7）

(Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.

意味（8）

(Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.

意味（9）

(Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

意味（10）

(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.

意味（11）

(role-playing games, board games, video games) a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).

意味（12）

(US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.

意味（13）

(poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.

意味（14）

(rail transport) Short for tank engine and tank locomotive.

Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.

tanks （ plural ）