tank

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Tank stands for:

  • Tank (container) for storing or transporting liquid and gaseous substances
  • Fuel tank , short for vehicles
  • Tank (unit) , ancient Indian weight for pearls, gold and silver
  • Tank , English and outdated German for tanks
  • Tank (computer game) coin-operated arcade game (1974)
  • Tank (band) , British heavy metal band (from 1980)
  • Tank (singer) (actually Durrell Babbs; * 1976), American R&B singer and songwriter
  • The Tank , American action comedy directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (1984)

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Tank is the family name of the following people:

  • Azize Tank (* 1950), German politician, Member of the Bundestag
  • Carsten Tank (1766–1832), Norwegian politician and entrepreneur
  • Carsten Tank-Nielsen (1877–1957), Norwegian naval officer, most recently rear admiral
  • David Tank (* 1953), American biophysicist and neurophysiologist
  • Franz Tank (1890–1981), Swiss physicist
  • Kurt Tank (1898–1983), German aircraft designer
  • Maksim Tank (1912–1995), Belarusian poet and writer
  • Stephan Tank (* 1961), German economist
  • Wilhelm Tank (1888–1967), German anatomist, painter and sculptor


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Wiktionary: Tank  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations