different between panzer vs tanker

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Panzer [1940], from Middle High German Panzer (“armour”), from Old French panciere (“coat of mail”), from Latin pantex (“paunch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pænts?(?)/, /?pænz?(?)/, /?p??nts?(?)/

Noun

panzer (plural panzers)

1. A tank, especially a German one of World War II.
2. (attributive, sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II.
   • 1940, Al Williams, Airpower, New York: Coward-McCann.

     A Panzer division is composed of 12,000 to 14,000 men, with 3,150 motorized vehicles of all descriptions, ranging from tanks to antitank guns, antiaircraft batteries, motorized supply units transporting food,  […]

Romanian

Etymology

From German Panzer

Noun

panzer n (plural panzere)

1. panzer

Declension

Spanish

Noun

panzer m (plural panzers or panzer)

1. panzer

English

Etymology

tank +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ?k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Noun

tanker (plural tankers)

1. (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
2. (automotive, US) A tank truck.
3. (automotive, Britain) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
4. (aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.

5. (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.

6. (rail transport) A tank car
7. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
   • 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN), page 70:

     On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]

8. (surfing slang) A longboard.

   I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip

Synonyms

• (military): tankman, tankist
• (military): trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
• (military): zipperhead (Canadian military slang)

Derived terms

• air tanker
• oil tanker
• supertanker

Translations

Verb

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)

1. (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
2. (aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.

Anagrams

• Kanter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tank?r/, [?t??n????]

Etymology 1

Noun

tanker c

1. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 2

From English tanker

Noun

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)

Synonyms

• tankskib

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tanker.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?t??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)

1. A tanker (type of cargo ship).

   Synonym: tankschip

Derived terms

• gastanker
• mammoettanker
• olietanker

French

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers)

1. tanker (vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English tanker

Noun

tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. (nautical) a tanker

Synonyms

• tankbåt, tankskip

Derived terms

• oljetanker

See also

• tankar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Noun

tanker m

1. indefinite plural of tank
2. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 3

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

References

• “tanker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tanker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nker/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker

Noun

tànker m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Declension