Word Finder - tank

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A closed container for liquids or gases.

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An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

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A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

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The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

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The amount held by a container; a tankful.

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

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An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

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(Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.

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A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.

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By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

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A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.

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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).

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A prison cell, or prison generally.

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A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.

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To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

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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.

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To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.

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To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

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To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.

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To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.

We checked out the tank and the mileage.

The tank top displayed his thick biceps and shapely shoulders.

A propane tank perched on concrete blocks looked out of place in the antiquated setting.

Her mate, Rhyn, stood in heavy boots, running pants, and a tank top.

Beside the tank was a pile of split wood about three feet high and six feet long.

It is upon a small island in the middle of this tank that the Golden Temple is now situated.

These at first consisted of an ordinary truck on which were placed two wooden tub-like tanks, each holding about 2000 gallons; they were replaced in 1871 by the modern type of tank-car, constructed with a horizontal cylindrical tank of boiler plate.

He was the author of numerous inventions, including the cagniardelle, a blowing machine, which consists essentially of an Archimedean screw set obliquely in a tank of water in such a way that its lower end is completely and its upper end partially immersed, and operated by being rotated in the opposite direction to that required for raising water.

Where an effective sealing of the mine is impracticable it is sometimes possible to extinguish the fire from the outside of the mine by constructing a large reservoir or tank in the upper part of the mine-shaft and suddenly releasing a large volume of water by opening dischargedoors.

In Norwood and Rogers's process a thin coating of tin is applied to the iron before it is dipped in the zinc, by putting the plates between layers of granulated tin in a wooden tank containing a dilute solution of stannous chloride, when tin is deposited on them by galvanic action.

Marble terraces and balustrades surround the tank, and a marble causeway leads across the water to the temple, whose gilded walls, roof, dome and cupolas, with vivid touches of red curtains, are reflected in the still water.

The cable is carefully coiled into the tanks in horizontal flakes, each of which is begun at the outside of the tank and coiled towards the centre.

Limnocodium sowerbyi was first discovered in the Victoria regia tank in the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, London.

When water ballast is employed the water is filled into a tank in the bottom of the wagon or car, its quantity, if passengers are carried, being regulated by the number ascending or descending.

Occasionally a somewhat similar type is designed with the bogie under the fire-box and a single leading axle forward under the smoke-box - an arrangement in favour for suburban tank engines.

The capacity of the tank depends on the power required and the distance to be traversed by a single charge of air.

Y g g The air passes through a reducing valve from the main to an auxiliary tank, in which the pressure is, say, 125 lb, and thence to the driving cylinders.

He could figure the gas he'd have used and written his own receipt when he filled up the motor home, stop­ping after filling the tank part way.

The lower end e of the cable in the tank T is taken to the testing room, so that continuous tests for electrical condition can be made.

The principal types to be found in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe are open wagons (the lading often protected from the weather by tarpaulin sheets), mineral wagons, covered or box wagons for cotton, grain, &c., sheep and cattle trucks, &c. The principal types of American freight cars are box cars, gondola cars, coal cars, stock cars, tank cars and refrigerator cars, with, as in other countries, various special cars for special purposes.

All work simultaneously, each raising the water to a tank or sump above, whence it is taken by the next pump of the system, and finally discharged at the surface.

The temperature required in the fusion of sheet-glass and of other glasses produced in tank furnaces is much lower than that attained in steel furnaces, and it is consequently pos Since the discovery of the Rntgen rays, experiments have been made to ascertain the effects of the different constituents of glass on the transparency of glass to X-rays.

The fusion of sheet-glass is now generally carried out in gas-fired regenerative tank furnaces.

In many respects the glassmelting tank resembles the open-hearth steel furnace, but there are certain interesting differences.

In a sheet-glass tank there is therefore a gradient of temperature and a continuous passage of material from the hotter end of the furnace where the raw materials are introduced to the cooler end where the glass, free from bubbles and raw material, is withdrawn by the gatherers.

For the production of coloured sheet-glass, however, the employment of pot furnaces is still almost universal, probably because the quantities of glass required of any one tint are insufficient to employ even a small tank furnace continuously; the exact control of the colour is also more readily attained with the smaller bulk of glass which has to be dealt with in pots.

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Reform is an independent, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity.

All draw off services are taken off from the flow pipe which connects the boiler with the tank.

The glass to be used for the production of plate is universally melted in pots or crucibles and not in open tank furnaces.

The boiling juice is run down into subsiding tanks, where it cools, and at the same time the albumen, which has been suddenly coagulated by momentary exposure to high temperature, falls to the bottom of the tank, carrying with it the vegetable and other matters which were in suspension in the juice.

Thus clear liquor alone is run off, and the mud and cloudy liquor at the bottom of the tank are left undisturbed, and discharged separately as required.

The scums then settle down to the bottom of the cone, whence they are run off to the scum tank.

The water forced by the force-pump against the Pelton wheels returns by a waste-pipe to the tank, from which the force-pump takes it again.

The whole operation of thus changing a filter occupies about ten minutes, and there is no need for anyone to enter the hot cistern to detach the bags, which are removed in the open air above the mud tank.

A common type of condenser consists of a copper worm placed in a water bath; but more generally straight tubes of copper or cast iron which cross and recross a rectangular tank are employed, since this form is more readily repaired and cleansed.

Well and tank water is also largely used for irrigation purposes.

Jonah is the Kitab al Tank (" Book of Exact Investigation"), which consists of two parts, regarded as two distinct books - the Kitab alLuma ("Book of Many-coloured Flower-beds") and the Kitab alusul ("Book of Roots").

A movable wooden bridge must have been used to enable the priest to cross the water in the surrounding tank.

It consists of a stoneware tank with a thin sheet of platinum-iridium alloy at either end forming the primary electrodes, and between them a number of glass plates reaching nearly to the bottom, each having a platinum gauze sheet on either side; the two sheets belonging to each plate are in metallic connexion, but insulated from all the others, and form intermediary or bi-polar electrodes.

In this process all the anode metals pass into solution except iridium and other refractory metals of that group, which remain as metals, and silver, which is converted into insoluble chloride; lead and bismuth form chloride and oxychloride respectively, and these dissolve until the bath is saturated with them, and then precipitate with the silver in the tank.

The tank is of porcelain or glazed earthenware, the electrodes for impure solutions are z in.

It seems clear then, that the basin was at stated times used for the latter purpose, and was converted into a tank.

The operation had been brilliant in the extreme, but the exploitation proved more difficult, as neither tank nor artillery support was available in sufficient strength.

The brine is cooled in a tank filled with spiral pipes, in which anhydrous ammonia, previously liquefied by compression, is vaporized in vacuo at the atmospheric temperature by the sensible heat of the returncurrent of brine, whose temperature has been slightly raised in its passage through the circulating tubes.

The cleaned coal is carried by a stream of water to a bucket elevator and delivered to the storage bunkers, or both water and coal may be lifted by a centrifugal pump into a large cylindrical tank, where the water drains away, leaving the coal sufficiently dry for use.

The town of Multai contains an artificial tank, from the centre of which the Tapti is said to take its rise; hence the reputed sanctity of the spot, and the accumulation of temples in its honour.

Threatened with death on his refusing to say where his treasure lay hid, the old king told them to take him to the tank.

The principal temple is sacred to Siva, and is said to have been rebuilt or enlarged by a leper emperor, who came south on a pilgrimage and was cured by bathing in the temple tank; upwards of 60,000 pilgrims visit the temple every December.

Still farther to the east, divided from the monastic buildings by a wall, were the vegetable gardens and orchards, and tank for fish.