tank

noun tanks

1. A closed container for liquids or gases. The propane is stored in these tanks.
2. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids. The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.
3. A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial). The tanks are full and the grass is high.
4. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle. We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
5. The amount held by a container; a tankful. I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
6. An armored fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks. The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.

   Similar: battle tank, combat tank, armour, tango

7. India A reservoir or dam (as it is known in the rest of Australia).
8. A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
9. colloquial A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
10. UK, broadly, dated, slang A bouncer or doorman.
11. 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). The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.
12. US, slang A prison cell, or prison generally. drunk tank
13. slang A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
14. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of tank engine or 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.
15. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of tank top T-BACK COTTON TANK

Opposite: glass cannon

verb tanks · tanking · tanked

1. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet. He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
2. Internet to flop; drop in popularity (of a musician/group)
3. To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
4. transitive To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank. Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake.
5. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage. Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague
6. slang To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt. Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
7. slang To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
8. Singapore, colloquial To stand; to tolerate.
9. Singapore, colloquial To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.

noun tanks

1. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
2. A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

proper noun

1. A city in Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2. A district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.