different between tank vs fank

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ????? (???k?) or Marathi ???? (??k?). Compare the Arabic verb ????????????? (istanqa?a, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).

In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water [from 1915] as well as physical resemblance.

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

1. A closed container for liquids or gases.
2. An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
3. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
   • 1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back

     The tanks are full and the grass is high.

4. The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
5. The amount held by a container; a tankful.

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

6. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
7. (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
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.
9. (Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
10. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
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).
12. (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
13. (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.

Synonyms

• (military fighting vehicle): battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)

Antonyms

• (gaming): glass cannon

Hypernyms

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle

Hyponyms

• (military fighting vehicle): infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), superheavy tank (historical), tankette (historical), bobbin tank (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flail tank, flame tank, flamethrower tank

Coordinate terms

• (military fighting vehicle): armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, SPG, tank destroyer, assault gun

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Tokelauan: tane

Descendants

Translations

Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

1. To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
2. (video games) 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.
3. (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
4. 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."

5. (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
6. (poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.

Derived terms

• tank up

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

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

References

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

1. (Singapore, informal) To stand; to tolerate.

Related terms

• buay tank

Further reading

• tank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kant

Alemannic German

Interjection

tank

1. (Gressoney) thank you

Synonyms

• dankche
• fergälts Got
• merci
• vrattrus Got
• wol vergelzgott

References

• “tank” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?k]
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

tank m

1. tank, armor

Declension

Derived terms

• tankový

Further reading

• tank in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tank in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tan?k/, [?t??????]

Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanke)

1. tank (for storage)

   Synonym: beholder

2. (informal) filling station, gas station (US), petrol station (UK), service station

   Synonym: tankstation

Inflection

References

• “tank,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tank (but later than the previous word)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?nk/, [?t?æ????]

Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanks)

1. tank (military fighting vehicle)

   Synonym: kampvogn

Inflection

References

• “tank,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tan?k/, [?t??????]

Verb

tank

1. imperative of tanke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /t??k/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Hyphenation: tank
• (Belgium) Rhymes: -??k
• (Netherlands) Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje n)

1. tank (military armoured fighting vehicle with tracks)

   Synonym: vechtwagen

2. tank (storage reservoir)

Derived terms

• antitankmijn
• gevechtstank
• mannelijke tank
• tankmijn
• tanktoren
• tankval
• vrouwelijke tank

See also

• pantserwagen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tank

1. first-person singular present indicative of tanken
2. imperative of tanken

Anagrams

• kant

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??k/

Noun

tank m (plural tanks)

1. tank (military vehicle)
2. tank (container, Quebec French)

Synonyms

• (military tank): char

Further reading

• “tank” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

tank

1. singular imperative of tanken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of tanken

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??k]
• Hyphenation: tank
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

tank (plural tankok)

1. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
2. tank, fuel tank (the fuel reservoir of a vehicle)

   Synonym: üzemanyagtartály

3. (military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)

   Synonyms: harckocsi, páncélkocsi, páncélos

4. (photography) developing tank (a closed container used for developing film in a daylight environment)

   Synonym: el?hívó tank

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• tank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch tank, from English tank, from Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ????? (???k?) or Marathi ???? (??k?), from Sanskrit ??? (ta?aga, “pond”). Doublet of tangki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k/, /?ta?/
• Hyphenation: tank
• Homophone: tang (in second pronunciation)

Noun

tank (first-person possessive tankku, second-person possessive tankmu, third-person possessive tanknya)

1. tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

Alternative forms

• tang
• teng

Further reading

• “tank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (invariable)

1. tank (military and container)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

1. a tank (container, as below)
2. (military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)

   Synonym: stridsvogn

Derived terms

References

• “tank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• kant

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tank/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

1. a tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
2. (military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)

   Synonym: stridsvogn

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

tank

1. imperative of tanka

References

• “tank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• kant

Swedish

Noun

tank c

1. tank (container for liquids)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• dunk
• tanke

Anagrams

• kant

English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic fang.

Noun

fank (plural fanks)

1. A pen for enclosing sheep, mainly in the Scottish Highlands.

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989