Ääntäminen
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
- (Southwestern US chiefly Texas) A large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- (Southwestern US chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- (role-playing games, board games, video games) 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)
Verbit
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (video games) 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.
- To put fuel into a tank
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
Esimerkit
- I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
- 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."
- Apparently Agassi claims in his book to have deliberately 'tanked' an Australian Open SF against Chang because he didn't want to play Becker in the final. (bbc.co.uk)
- in Egypt the economy was "tanking", law and order had "virtually disappeared" and services were not functioning properly (bbc.co.uk)
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