tanker
English
editEtymology
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edit- IPA(key): /ˈtæŋkə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Noun
edittanker (plural tankers)
- (nautical) A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
- Hyponyms: oil tanker, supertanker
- 1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China[1], U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 8:
- The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.
- (automotive, US) A tank truck (tanker truck).
- (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
- 2021 September 23, Larry Elliott, “Petrol disruption will fuel fears of new winter of discontent”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.
- (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.
- Synonyms: air tanker, tanker aircraft
- Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.
- 2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN[3]:
- On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 bombers, and multiple flight trackers on social media said the planes being refueled were B-2 bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
- (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.
- Synonyms: tankist (uncommon), zipperhead (Canadian military slang)
- Hypernyms: crewmember, trooper
- Hyponym: tankman
- 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, […]
- (surfing slang) A longboard.
- I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editvessel — see also oil tanker
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tank truck
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member of a tank crew
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See also
edit- (military): crewman
Verb
edittanker (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.
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editDanish
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editEtymology 1
editNoun
edittanker c
Etymology 2
editNoun
edittanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)
- a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)
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edittanker
Dutch
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edit- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈtɛŋ.kər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: tan‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɛŋkər
Noun
edittanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)
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editFrench
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editAudio: (file)
Noun
edittanker m (plural tankers)
- tanker (vessel)
Further reading
edit- “tanker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology 1
editNoun
edittanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)
Synonyms
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editSee also
edit- tankar (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2
editNoun
edittanker m
- indefinite plural of tank
- indefinite plural of tanke
Etymology 3
editVerb
edittanker
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editSerbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittànker m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)
- tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)
Declension
editSwedish
editEtymology
editNoun
edittanker c
- (nautical) tanker
- Synonym: tankfartyg
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | tanker | tankers |
definite | tankern | tankerns | |
plural | indefinite | tankrar | tankrars |
definite | tankrarna | tankrarnas |
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