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tankful

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tank  (tngk)
n.
1.
a. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.
b. The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.
2. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.
3. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.
4. A tank top.
5. Slang A jail or jail cell.
v. tanked, tank·ing, tanks
v.tr.
To place, store, or process in a tank.
v.intr.
Slang To suffer a sudden decline or failure: "Steady investors . . . kept their heads when the stock market tanked in October 1987" Burton G. Malkiel.
Phrasal Verb:
tank up
1. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication.
2. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline.

[Partly from Gujarati tnkh, cistern (from Sanskrit taga, pond, perhaps of Dravidian origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin *stanticre; see stanch1).]

tankful (-fl) n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tankful - as much as a tank will hold
containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
Translations
Spanish tankful [ˈtæŋkful] n to get a tankful of petrol → llenar el depósito de gasolina

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