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tasker

English

Etymology

task +? -er

Noun

tasker (plural taskers)

  1. One who imposes a task.
  2. One who performs a task, such as a day-labourer.
  3. (Scotland, historical) A labourer who receives wages in kind.

Anagrams

  • Akters, Kaster, Krastë, Skater, Staker, Starke, retask, sakret, skater, staker, strake, streak, takers, trakes

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tanker

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

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