tanker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Prakrit 𑀝𑀁𑀓 (ṭaṃka)
Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī)bor.
Portuguese tanquebor.
English tank
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English tanker
From tank + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tankers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tankers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tankering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tankered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tankered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.
pos: noun
examples: The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.
gloss: A motor truck (lorry) with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles): a fuel tanker (lorry), petrol tanker, road tanker.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.
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.
gloss: An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A tank car (tank wagon).
pos: noun
gloss: Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
pos: noun
examples: 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, […]
gloss: An airman who serves on the crew of an aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: A longboard.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.
gloss: To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
Related words: crewman
Derived words: air tanker
helitanker
oil tanker
supertanker
tanker ace
tanker aircraft
tanker boot
tankerful
tankerload
tankerman
tanker truck
think-tanker
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