tanker
See also: tänker
English
Etymology
tank + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtæŋkə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Noun
tanker (plural tankers)
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An oil tanker.
- (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
- 1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China, U.S. Department of Commerce, OCLC 2467783, page 8:
- The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.
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- (automotive, US) A tank truck.
- (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
- (aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.
- Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.
- (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
- While our ground teams cut firebreaks in the brush, the tankers kept the fire in the mountains at bay with frequent drops of water and retardant.
- (rail transport) A tank car.
- (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
- 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
- On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]
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- (surfing slang) A longboard.
- I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.
Synonyms
- (military): tankman, tankist
- (military): trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
- (military): zipperhead (Canadian military slang)
Derived terms
- air tanker
- oil tanker
- supertanker
Translations
vessel
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tank truck
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member of a tank crew
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Verb
tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)
- (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
- (aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.
Anagrams
- Kanter
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tankər/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ɐ̯]
Noun
tanker c
- indefinite plural of tanke
Etymology 2
From English tanker.
Noun
tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)
- a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)
Synonyms
- tankskib
Verb
tanker
- present of tanke
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tanker.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈtɛŋ.kər/
- Hyphenation: tan‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɛŋkər
Noun
tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)
- tank ship
- Synonym: tankschip
Derived terms
- gastanker
- mammoettanker
- olietanker
French
Noun
tanker m (plural tankers)
- tanker (vessel)
Further reading
- “tanker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
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Tankeren "Flanders Loyalty"
Etymology 1
From English tanker.
Noun
tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)
- (nautical) a tanker
Synonyms
- tankbåt, tankskip
Derived terms
- oljetanker
See also
- tankar (Nynorsk)
Noun
tanker m
- indefinite plural of tank
- indefinite plural of tanke
Verb
tanker
- present of tanke
References
- “tanker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “tanker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tǎnker/
- Hyphenation: tan‧ker
Noun
tànker m (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)
- tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)
Declension
Declension of tanker
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tanker | tankeri |
genitive | tankera | tankera |
dative | tankeru | tankerima |
accusative | tanker | tankere |
vocative | tankeru | tankeri |
locative | tankeru | tankerima |
instrumental | tankerom | tankerima |