tanker
IPA: tˈæŋkɝ
noun
- (nautical) A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
- (automotive, US) A tank truck.
- (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
- (aviation, usually military) 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.
- (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
- (rail transport) A tank car.
- (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
- (surfing slang) A longboard.
verb
- (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
- (aviation) 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.
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Examples of "tanker" in Sentences
- Consider the article oil tanker.
- Aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
- And certainly on the tanker pages.
- Or maybe the tanker was an accident.
- Such as the tanker fleet of Inver Tankers.
- The collision with the tanker is covered in the programme.
- In twenty years, the size of tankers had increased tenfold.
- A tanker is moored to a buoy by means of a hawser arrangement.
- At the time, the Ohio was also the largest tanker ship afloat.
- To the south of Loch of Tankerness, is the Hall of Tankerness.
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