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Definition: Tanker |
TankerNoun1. A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk. 2. A soldier who drives a tank. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | A vessel specially designed and constructed for the carriage of fluid cargoes in bulk. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A lorry carrying liquid in bulk. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends open tank to impregnate wood products with preservatives: Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR (any industry) 921.663-010 to lift load of material over tank and guides load into tank by hand or with rod, working from elevated platform. Chains tank loads of poles to high rack to prevent toppling. Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate heat and flow of preserving solution in tank. Impregnates sashes, doors, and other millwork products, using hand or power hoist to load and unload tank. May tend vacuum-type dip tank that impregnates wood by pressure. (references) |
Public Administration | A specialised lorry on which are mounted a tank, a power pump, hose equipment for transporting water, and an operating crew. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Aircraft equipped for in-flight refuelling of others. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel.The most common use of the word is when referring to a large ship, carrying petroleum products. Apart from pipeline transport, tankers are the only method of transporting large quantities of oil around the world.
Such tankers have several times caused large environmental disasters when sinking close to coastal regions, causing oil spills. See Exxon Valdez, Braer, Prestige for examples of tankers that have caused oil spills.
The largest tanker in the world is the Jahre Viking. A tanker is an aircraft used for in-flight refueling. The US Air Force mostly uses converted transport aircraft, such as the KC-135 Stratotanker. The US Navy tends to use smaller aircraft, often converted attack aircraft such as the A-6.
A tanker is any crew member of a main battle tank.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tanker."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TANKER | English | Ecological economical European Tanker | N/A |
| LPG Tanker | English | Liquefied Petroleum Gas Tanker | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TankerSynonyms: oil tanker (n), oiler (n), tank driver (n), tank ship (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tanker |
| English words defined with "tanker": fuel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tanker": Bulk carrier ♦ flying boom ♦ IN-FLIGHT REFUELING OPERATOR ♦ segregated ballast oil tanker, summer tank ♦ Tanker Owner's Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution ♦ vessel carrying dangerous or polluting goods. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tanker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (tanker), French (tanker), German (tanker), Hungarian (oiler), Serbo-Croatian (tanker), Swedish (tanker), Turkish (oil tanker, petrol tanker, tanker). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks (The X Files; writing credit: Chris Carter; Frank Spotnitz) Just putting a tiny little ventilation hole in this oil tanker. (Bedazzled; writing credit: Peter Cook; Dudley Moore) If it's all the same to you I'll drive that tanker. (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; writing credit: Terry Hayes; George Miller) Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; writing credit: Terry Hayes; George Miller) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tanker (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tanker passing the jetties at sunset. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tanker traffic on the Mississippi River during spring flooding. Mississippi River levee with river water coming through and flowing to a marsh east of the river. Flooding usually occurs every spring. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A view over the tanker piers of downtown Boston. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Clean up workers use absorbent material to clean-up and wipe down the shoreline. The workers are cleaning up after the World Prodigy tanker spilled 290,000 gallons of #2 home heating oil into Narragansett Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A-10 drops from tanker. |  | A-10s fly in formation after refueling from a tanker. |
 | AMC team paves way for Tanker Task Force. |  | KC-10A Extender tanker. |
 | Tanker truck in oil field. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | An air tanker prepares to drop a load of retardant on a fire near Winnemucca, Nevada, August 1999. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Gasoline Tanker" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A large rig refuels a gas station. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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 | Synthetic low-pitched tanker horn blowing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Most Saudi oil exports move by tanker from Gulf terminals at Ras Tanura and Ju'aymah. (references) |
Jordan | Currently, around 400 tanker trucks per day carry crude oil from Iraq to Jordan's only refinery, in Zarqa. (references) | |
Kuwait | The Kuwait Oil Tankers Co. has 35 crude oil and refined product carriers and is the largest tanker company in an OPEC country. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | In 2001, in response to calls from many Assembly members, the government reopened an investigation of irregularities in the Kuwait Petroleum Company and the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company that involved a former minister and al-Sabah family member. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | The water supply is erratic in parts of Karachi, requiring delivery by water tanker to residences in some areas. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tanker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Tanker" is used about 390 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.74% | 389 | 14,231 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 390 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tanker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tanker | Last name | 130 | 67,284 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Kyoei Tanker Co., Ltd. | Norway | Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tanker": air tanker ♦ liquefied gas tanker ♦ mammoth tanker ♦ oil tanker ♦ petrol tanker ♦ pushed tanker ♦ pushed tanker barge ♦ road tanker ♦ segregated ballast oil tanker ♦ supply tanker ♦ Tanker Owner's Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tanker": tanker-based, tanker-load, tanker-loading, tanker-loads, tanker-mounted. | |
Ending with "tanker": fuel-tanker, oil-tanker, one-tanker, super-tanker, water-tanker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tanker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tankist, kamion-cisternë, anije-cisternë (oil tanker, tank car). (various references) | |
Arabic | ناقلة بترول, عربة السوائل في القطار, شاحنة سوائل (tank). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | танкер (oil tanker, oiler, petroleum ship), кораб-цистерна, петролоносач (oil tanker, oiler). (various references) | |
Chinese | 罐车. (various references) | |
Czech | tanker, zásobovací letadlo, cisternová loï, cisterna (cistern, tank). (various references) | |
Danish | tankvogn (cask wagon, doodlebug, fire truck, road tanker, special wagon for the carriage of liquids, tank truck, tun wagon), tankskib (tank vessel, tankvessel), tankbil (road tanker, tank truck), olietankskib (oil tanker, petrol carrier), korntank (grain bin, grain tank, hopper), ajletønde (water or liquid manure tanker). (various references) | |
Dutch | tankwagen voor water of gier (water or liquid manure tanker), tankwagen (bowser, road tanker, tank truck), tankschip (tank vessel, tankvessel), tanker (tankvessel), tankboot (tankvessel), watertankwagen (fire truck), petroleumtanker (oil tanker, petrol carrier), petroleumschip (oil tanker, petrol carrier), olietanker (oil tanker, petrol carrier), olieboot (oil tanker, petrol carrier), graantank (grain bin, grain tank, hopper). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتی نفت کش , تانک (Tank), اتومبیل نفش کش . (various references) | |
Finnish | tankkilaiva, tankkialus (tank vessel), säiliölaiva, säiliöauto (road tanker, tank truck). (various references) | |
French | wagon citerne (tank car), tanker, pétrolier (oil tanker), camion citerne (road tanker, tank truck), avion ravitailleur. (various references) | |
German | Tanker (tank vessel, tankvessel), tankwagen (tank car, tank lorry, tank wagon), tankschiff (tank vessel, tankvessel). (various references) | |
Greek | πετρελαιοφόρο (oil tanker), δεξαμενόπλοιο (oil tanker, petrol carrier, tank vessel, tankvessel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משאית מכל, מכלית (oil tanker), אנית מיכל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tartálykocsi (oil truck, tank car, tank wagon), tartályhajó, tankhajó (oil tanker), utántöltõ, harckocsizó (armored, armoured). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapal tangki (oiler). (various references) | |
Italian | petroliera (tinker), nave cisterna (tank vessel), autobotte (tank lorry, tank truck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 給油船 , タレット旋盤 (personality, star, talent, tank, tank breathing, tank lorry, tank top, tongue, tower, turret lathe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうゆせん, タンカー , タンクローリー (tank lorry), タンクローリ (tank lorry). (various references) | |
Korean | 유조선. (various references) | |
Manx | tankeyr, lhong ooill (oil tanker), doagh troailt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | navio-cisterna (tank vessel). (various references) | |
Romanian | tanc petrolier (oil ship), vagon-cisternã (oil car, tank car), petrolier (oil carrier, oil tanker, oiler), navã-tanc, autocisternã. (various references) | |
Russian | танкер;танкист, танкер (cargo tank, crude carrier, oil tanker, oil-tanker, tank ship, tank trailer, tankship), танкист (armorer, tanky, trooper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tanker. (various references) | |
Spanish | petrolero (oil, oil tanker, oilman, petroleum), camión cisterna (fire truck, road tanker, tank truck). (various references) | |
Swedish | tankfartyg. (various references) | |
Thai | เรือบรรทุก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tanker (oil tanker, petrol tanker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цистерна (cistern, tank), танкер (oil carrier, oil ship, oil tanker, oiler), автоцистерна (oil-truck). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tanker": tankers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tanker": supertanker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tanker": cantankerous, cantankerously, cantankerousness, cantankerousnesses, supertankers. (additional references) | |
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"Tanker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kanker, tance, tanger, tangery, Tanka, tankan, tankerd, tankert, tanuer, Taskrep, Tenko, tinka, tinkar, tinkery, Tonke, Tuanku, Tuncer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tanker" (pronounced ta"ngker) |
| 4 | -a" ng k er | anchor, banker, canker, danker, hanker, rancor, ranker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | drinker, Dunker, bunker, clunker, conquer, freethinker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antre, taken, taker, trank. | |
-2 letters: ante, earn, etna, kane, karn, kart, kent, kern, knar, nark, near, neat, rake, rank, rant, rate, rent, take, tank, tare, tarn, teak, tear, tern, trek. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, are, ark, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, kae, kat, kea, ken, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: keratin, rankest, retaken, tankers, thanker. | |
+2 letters: ankerite, crankest, frankest, keratins, knitwear, partaken, plankter, retaking, thankers, trackmen. | |
+3 letters: ankerites, caretaken, crankiest, interbank, lakefront, marketing, newmarket, nonmarket, nonskater, outranked, overtaken, plankters, prankster, racketing, retacking, snakeroot, snarkiest, starkness, streaking, undertake. | |
+4 letters: antimarket, antismoker, antistrike, bankrupted, barkentine, bracketing, breakfront, caretaking, embarkment, keratinize, keratinous, lakefronts, marketings, newmarkets, nonskaters, nutcracker, overtaking, pranksters, printmaker, restacking, retackling, retracking, snakeroots, streakings, trancelike, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes. | |
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