(n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
(n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(3) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(4) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
(5) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(6) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(7) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
(8) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(9) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(10) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(12) The waterborne origin of these infections highlights the importance of maintaining clean water supplies, especially where storage tanks are used.
(13) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
(14) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(15) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
(16) Computer-processed signals were derived from 20 evenly spaced tank-surface electrodes, and a single, moving, equivalent cardiac dipole generator was optimally fitted to the recorded potentials for each 1-msec sampling interval.
(17) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
(18) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(19) Besides other advantages, the set provides an ICP monitoring, a pump device and a protection of the air filter of the collecting tank for safer transport.
(20) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
Tanker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
(2) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
(3) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(4) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(5) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
(6) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(7) Tankers are a common sight, carrying Libya's oil exports around the world.
(8) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
(9) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
(10) In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.
(11) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(12) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
(13) A strong relationship between disability pension due to neuropsychiatric diagnoses and work on tankers was found, especially when restricted to work as a mate on the tankers.
(14) Some variation will be caused by the time the garage last bought a tanker of petrol and set its prices: the longer ago it made the purchase, the cheaper the fuel is likely to be.
(15) Traffic congestion, dust kicked up by oil tankers and road fatalities are constant features of life here.
(16) The bomb this Wednesday morning, hidden inside a sewage tanker, hit at all of these aspects.
(17) Whoever used run-of-the-mill bulk carriers or tankers drifted to the lowest-cost country.
(18) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(19) A spokesman for Pritchard-Gordon Tankers said two men had been hit by the wave while working on deck and a third was injured trying to help them.
(20) Speculators, including banks and oil companies, fill these tankers with oil and let them drift around the oceans until the price rises.