Definizione monolingua

tank

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 ones teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
3. To put fuel into a tank
4. To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
   • Farber, Michael, ""Swede Success"", Sports Illustrated, March 6, 2006. Retrieved on February 5, 2011.

     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.""

tank (plural tanks)

1. A container for liquids or gases.
2. the fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
3. The amount held by a container, =tankful.

   I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to Medicine Hat.

4. An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
5. (Australian and Indian English) a reservoir or dam.
6. (American Southwest English, esp Texas), a large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field. By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
7. (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
8. (gaming, video games, online gaming) In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.

Definizione dizionario tank

	carro armato
	military fighting vehicle

	serbatoio
	container

	bombola
	gas cylinder for scuba diving

	cisterna
	reservoir

	energumeno
	muscular and physically intense person

	tanica
	container

acquario

corazza

tino

vasca

Altri significati:

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

A container for liquids or gases, typically with a volume of several cubic metres.

(Video game jargon) 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.

A heavy armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a large gun and moving on caterpillar tracks.

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

To put fuel into a tank

(Australian and Indian English), a reservoir or dam.

(American SouthWest English, esp Texas), a large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field. By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

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

role playing character

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

(gaming, video games, online gaming) In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.

In USA scuba divers' usage, a compressed air or gas cylinder.

tank (military vehicle)