tank

«tank» in Mova's school dictionary: a big container that holds water, fuel, oil or gas — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (tank, tanks); verb (tank — fail badly, slang)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tank is a big container that holds water, fuel, oil or gas. tree →

2) A fish tank is a glass box for fish. tree →

3) A tank is also a big heavy army vehicle with a gun, that moves on metal tracks. tree →

4) A think tank is a group of people who think up ideas. tree →

5) A tank can also be a pool of water in a hot country, where people and animals bathe and drink. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a container with a volume or capacity — litres in a tank, filling or emptying at a rate; fish in a tank; volume of a box-shaped tank = length × width × height. In science: a water tank, a fuel tank; capacity and volume. In everyday life: filling the car's tank with petrol, a hot-water tank, a tank top (a shirt with no sleeves). Phrases: «a full tank», «fish tank», «petrol tank», «water tank».

examples

• A tank holds 200 litres of water. tree →
• A pipe fills the tank with 10 litres a minute. tree →
• There are 15 fish in the tank. tree →
• The car's tank holds 40 litres of petrol. tree →
• We clean the fish tank every week. tree →
• The tank is half full. tree →
• Farms in Australia collect rainwater in tanks. tree →
• The old army tank is in the museum. tree →
• He bathed himself and his horse in the tank, and then sat down under a tree. tree →

note

Countable: «a tank». Maths: gives a capacity or holds things counted. Trap: «how long to fill» is capacity ÷ rate; when water also flows out, use the difference of the rates; «half full» means half the capacity.

In the corpora

• Sea tanks are made with special salt mixed into clean water and tested every day, and big filters clean the water like kidneys.
• Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front.
• Waiting while they grow is called cycling the tank.
• Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals, and some countries have banned dolphin shows.
• Breathing helium from a gas tank is dangerous: it can harm the lungs and leaves the body without oxygen.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tank» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.