Water Tank

Definition: Water Tank

Water Tank

Noun

1. A tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Water Tank

Crosswords: Water Tank

Books

• Chinese Children's Stories: Tang Buohu's Drawings, the General and the Water Tank (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Hamilton Beach 14750 EasyFill Removable Water Tank Iron (reference)

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Theodolite tied on top of water tank Seaside Park Water Tank - New Jersey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Centrally located water tank allows a farmer in southern Iowa to rotate cattle on different pastures, which allows regrowth of the pastures and is a productive grazing system. Credit: Unknown.

Water tank in a pasture is located to serve four pastures, allowing a water supply for four-pasture rotational grazing. Water comes from a nearby pond. Credit: Unknown.

Rogue River - Rand, Water Tank. Credit: Unknown.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 95, Perigueux, France. : General view from water tank looking west. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, P.I. : Exterior view- Water Tank and pumping plant. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Coaling station and water tank at Mazonia, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Water tank for sale, York, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer with water tank, Parke County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Water tank at Gampola railway station. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A water tank stood high on one edge of the camp

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Economic History

Oman

In 1998 and 1999, the government decreed that only Omani nationals could work as gas cylinder truck drivers and delivery men, water tank truck drivers, school bus drivers, real estate agents, or plow operators. (references)

Oman

In 1999 and 2000, the government "Omanized" (i.e. banned expatriates from working) a number of low-wage jobs, including water tank truck drivers, gas cylinder truck drivers, plow operators, and real estate agents. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

On May 28, the High Court confirmed the death sentence of three policemen convicted of the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl in 1995. In March 1999, four police officers were charged with manslaughter after a body was found in the rooftop water tank of the Detective Branch in Dhaka. (references)

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Ending with "water tank": hot-water tank.

Danish

vandkammer (water chamber, water compartment). (various references)

Dutch

waterballastruimte (water chamber, water compartment), ruimte voor waterballast (water chamber, water compartment), drijfkist (water chamber, water compartment). (various references)

French

réservoir d'eau, citerne � eau (water chamber, water compartment), chambre � eau (water chamber, water compartment), caisse � eau (water chamber, water compartment). (various references)

German

Wasserkasten (cistern). (various references)

Greek 

θάλαμος νερού (water chamber, water compartment), δεξαμενή νερού (water chamber, water compartment). (various references)

Hungarian

víztorony (reservoir, water tower), víztartály (bay, cistern, reservoir), víztározó (aquifer, reservoir), ivóvíztároló, ciszterna (cistern, tank). (various references)

Italian

camera o cassa d'acqua (water chamber, water compartment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

水槽 (cistern, fish tank). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいそう (burial at sea, cistern, fish tank, playing wind instruments, water plant), みずおけ (cistern, pail), ちょすいそう. (various references)

Pig Latin

aterway anktay.(various references)

Russian 

бак для воды (tea-urn). (various references)

Spanish

depósito (barrel, bond, cistern, deposit, depository, depot, escrow, morgue, Pinfold, repository, reservoir, retainer, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, warehouse), caja de agua (manger, save all, water chamber, water compartment), cámara de agua (water chamber, water compartment), bolsa (bag, bagful, Bursa, exchange, grip, handbag, hand-bag, handgrip, holdall, market, pocket, poke, pouch, prize money, purse, sac, stock exchange, stock market). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: awaken, kantar, karate, natter, rattan, ratten, tanker, tantra, tartan, wanter, watter.

-4 letters: anear, antae, antra, antre, arena, attar, awake, aware, karat, ratan, reata, rewan, taken, taker, tanka, tatar, tater, tawer, tetra, trank, treat, tweak, waken, waker, water, wreak.

-5 letters: anew, anta, ante, arak, area, earn, etna, kana, kane, karn, kart, kata, kent, kern.