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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.

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A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.

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A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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To stand; to tolerate.

Tanks and pots are both used for melting the glass.

Large tanks of boiler-plate are used to receive the oil as it comes through the pipe-lines.

The filtering works include 6 lime saturators, 2 mixing or softening tanks, 6 settling basins, 10 mechanical filters and 2 clear-water reservoirs.

The water cranes or towers which are placed at intervals along the railway to supply the engines with water require similar care in regard to the quality of the water laid on to them, as also to the water troughs, or track tanks as they are called in America, by which engines are able to pick up water without stopping.

The liquid is now run into neutralizing tanks containing sodium carbonate, and, after settling, the supernatant liquid, termed "light liquor," is run through bag filters and then on to bone-char filters, which have been previously used for the "heavy liquor."

The plan usually adopted is to collect the latex in rectangular tanks or casks.

Large objects are suspended in the tanks by hooks or wires, care being taken to shift their position and so avoid wire-marks.

The strength of the current may also be regulated by introducing lengths of German silver or iron wire, carbon rod, or other inferior conductors in the path of the current, and a series of such resistances should always be provided close to the tanks.

The cantonment is situated on the left bank of the Hugh; it has also a large bazaar and several large tanks, and also a parade ground.

The state came under British management, and the administration was improved, the revenue increased, a system of irrigation developed, new tanks and wells constructed and an excellent system of roads and public buildings organized.

As the water level falls the tanks readily follow it while at work, whereas pumps must be lowered to new positions to keep within suction distance.

Self-acting tanks are occasionally built underneath the platforms of hoisting cages.

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.

In Australia a continuous juice separator is generally used, and preferred to ordinary subsiding or filtering tanks.

The clear juice when it arrives at the top of the separator flows slowly over the level edges of, a cross canal and passes in a continuous stream to the service tanks of the evaporators or vacuum pan.

In some factories they are collected in suitable tanks, and steam is blown into them, which further coagulates the albuminous par Scums. tides.

The latter are circular or rectangular vessels, holding from 500 to 1500 gallons each, according to the capacity of the factory, and fitted with steam coils at the bottom and skimming troughs at the top. In them the syrup is quickly brought up to the boil and skimmed for about five minutes, when it is run off to the service tanks of the vacuum pans.

They consist of tanks or cisterns fitted with " heads " from which a number of bags of specially woven cloth are suspended in a suitable manner, and into which the melted sugar or liquor to be filtered flows from the melting pans.

In a refinery in Nova Scotia a system has been introduced by which a travelling crane above the bag filters lifts up any head bodily with all its bags attached, and runs it to the mud and washing tanks at the end of the battery, while another similar crane drops another head, fitted with fresh bags, into the place of the one just removed.

The filtered liquors, being collected in the various service tanks according to their qualities, are drawn up into the vacuum pans and boiled to crystals.

Among the most famous remains of Ma'rib are those of a great dike reminding one of the restored tanks familiar to visitors at Aden.

Above it was a series of three tanks (A Journey through the Yemen, p. 279, aondon, 1893).

After filtration the water is pumped to the storage tanks.

Water everywhere abounds, and is supplied to the shipping by means of tanks.

He suggested the use of experimental tanks for testing the powers of ship models, invented an ear-trumpet for the deaf, improved the common house-stove of his native land, cured smoky chimneys, took a lively interest in machine-guns and even sketched a flying machine.

They cannot endure captivity, dying in the course of two or three days, even when kept in capacious tanks.

After charging, the barrel is rotated, and when the chlorination is complete the contents are emptied on a filter of quartz or some similar material, and the filtrate led to settling tanks.

After settling the solution is run into the precipitating tanks.

The precipitation is carried out in tanks or vats made with"wooden sides and a cement bottom.

The supernatant liquid is led into settling tanks, where a further amount of "gold is deposited, r and is then filtered through sawdust or sand, the sawdust being afterwards burnt and the gold separated from the ashes and the sand treated in the chloridizing vat.

The liquors are run off from the vats to the electrolysing baths or precipitating tanks, and the leached ores are removed by means of doors in the sides of the vats into wagons.

Some 45 tanks were available, and owing to the absence of some of the corps artillery only 600 guns covered the advance.

Five hundred gun's and 45 tanks were detailed off to assist.

Twenty-three tanks joined in the attack, which was preceded by no bombardment but was covered by the fire of 978 guns.

This was enhanced by the fact that only in certain sectors where the canal passed under the Bellicourt tunnel was it possible to employ tanks, of which some 130 were allotted to the left of the IX.

Notwithstanding the large number of streams, the depression of their channels and height of their banks render them for the most part unsuitable for the purposes of irrigation, - which is conducted by means of jhils and tanks.

Some of the tanks are of great capacity; the Barwa Sagar, for instance, is 22 m.

It is then removed to lead-lined tanks and again washed with water and dried; the product obtained contains about 95% of anthraquinone.

There is a total want of streams and wells of fresh water, and the inhabitants are dependent on the rain, which they collect and preserve in tanks.

Lead, copper, sulphur, orpiment, also lignite, have been found within the confines of the province; also a kind of beautiful, variegated, translucent marble, which takes a high polish, is used in the construction of palatial buildings, tanks, baths, &c., and is known as Maragha, or Tabriz marble.

This acid is exhaled in volcanic gas, which is passed through water tanks.

The water supply of the city was formerly obtained from rainwater tanks on the walls or by carriage from springs a few miles inland.

If the rods are to be buffed they are immersed in large tanks of boiling water from 4 to 6 hours.

It fell com pletely into decay, and it is only of recent years that the jungle has been cleared away, the ruins laid bare, and some measure of prosperity brought back to the surrounding country by the restoration of hundreds of village tanks.

The state sank wells and built and maintained tanks from which brine was delivered to lessees.

It is then run into settling tanks, from which it next passes into the evaporating pans, which are shallow leadlined pans heated by the gases of the soffioni.

Scorpions noted for the virulence of their poison abound as well as horse leeches in the tanks.

Those intended to provide bottom heat, however, are set in (a) water tanks running under the beds, or (b) in enclosed dry chambers under the beds, or are (c) embedded in the soil or plunging material.

After boiling about an hour, it is allowed to cool, the water is drawn off, and the oil is transferred to zinc tanks or clarifiers capable of holding from 60 to loo gallons.

The Jumna and the Ganges enclose within their angle a fertile tract well irrigated with tanks and wells.