Tank vs. Basin

Tanknoun

A closed container for liquids or gases.

Tanknoun

An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

Tanknoun

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

Tanknoun

The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

Tanknoun

The amount held by a container; a tankful.

Tanknoun

An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

Tanknoun

(Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.

Tanknoun

A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.

Tanknoun

By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

Tanknoun

(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.

Tanknoun

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)

Tanknoun

A prison cell, or prison generally.

Tankverb

To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

Tankverb

(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.

Tankverb

(transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.

Tankverb

To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

Tankverb

(fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.

Tanknoun

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

Tanknoun

A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

Tanknoun

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

Tanknoun

a heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an armored division.

Tanknoun

a jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station.

Tanknoun

an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads

Tanknoun

a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids

Tanknoun

as much as a tank will hold

Tanknoun

a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk

Tanknoun

a cell for violent prisoners

Tankverb

store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it

Tankverb

treat in a tank;

Tank

A tank is an armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armor, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret.

Basinnoun

a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall

Basinnoun

(obsolete) a shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food

Basinnoun

a depression, natural or artificial, containing water

Basinnoun

(geography) an area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin

Basinnoun

(geography) a rock formation scooped out by water erosion

Basinnoun

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

Basinnoun

The quantity contained in a basin.

Basinnoun

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

Basinnoun

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

Basinnoun

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

Basinnoun

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

Basinnoun

a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids;

Basinnoun

the quantity that a basin will hold;

Basinnoun

a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it;

Basinnoun

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries;

Basinnoun

a bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face;

Basinnoun

a bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin.

Basinnoun

a wide open container used for preparing food or for holding liquid

Basinnoun

a circular or oval valley or natural depression on the earth's surface, especially one containing water

Basinnoun

the tract of country drained by a river and its tributaries, or which drains into a lake or sea

Basinnoun

an enclosed area of water where boats can be moored

Basinnoun

a circumscribed rock formation where the strata dip towards the centre.