What does Tanker mean?

Definitions for Tanker
ˈtæŋ kərtanker

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Tanker.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. oil tanker, oiler, tanker, tank shipnoun

    a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk

  2. tanker, tank drivernoun

    a soldier who drives a tank

Wiktionary

  1. tankernoun

    A vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.

  2. tankernoun

    Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.

  3. tankernoun

    A longboard.

    1997: I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip uE000149824uE001 Neal Miyake, World Surf Day 1997

ChatGPT

  1. tanker

    A tanker is a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft designed to carry or transport bulk quantities of liquids or gases, such as oil or petroleum.

Wikidata

  1. Tanker

    A tanker is a merchant vessel designed to transport liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tanker in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tanker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Tanker in a Sentence

  1. Omran Al-Zwie:

    An oil tanker was supposed to dock at the port this morning; but the weather was against this. We will wait until the weather allows us to go ahead.

  2. Richard Aboulafia:

    Tanker and 787 are the only issues that make sense as driving the panicky mood, i would expect Muilenburg would want to deal with this sooner rather than later.

  3. Seyed Abbas Mousavi:

    Because from the early hours of the tanker's detention, we announced that Syria was not its destination.

  4. Hugo Castro:

    If you go to the canal you see a bunch of homemade floatation devices. It's such a violent gamble, and people are consistently willing to do it. a tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road.

  5. Shane Fitzsimmons:

    Tragically, there appear to be no survivors as a result of the crash down in the Snowy Monaro area, (The tanker) impacted heavily with the ground and initial reports are that there was a large fireball associated with the impact of the plane as it hit the ground. There is no indication at this stage of what's caused the accident.

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