tank

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  1. noun A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.
  2. noun The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.
  3. noun A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.
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  1. Partly from Gujarati tānkh, cistern (from Sanskrit taḍāgaḥ, pond, perhaps of Dravidian origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin *stanticāre; see stanch1).

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  1. In local English use a variant of stank (cf. tamin as related to stamin); in East Indian use prob. from Portuguese tanque, a tank, pond, pool, = Sp. estanque = Provencal estanc, stanc = Old French estang, a pond, pool: see stank, the same word in more orig. form. The East Indian terms (Marathi tānken, Guzerathi tānkh, tānki, in Rajputana tānka, a reservoir, tank) are prob. independent words, whose similarity to the Portuguese and English words is accidental.
  2. from tank, n.
  3. from Middle English tank; origin obscure.
 

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