tanker

CEFRB1

/ˈtæŋkə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A large vehicle or ship carrying liquid cargo.
02
noun
Extra detail
A motor truck (lorry) with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles): a fuel tanker (lorry), petrol tanker, road tanker.

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

Extra meanings

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.
A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.
An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.

In context

The tanker began to spill its cargo of oil.
I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.
Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.

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The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.
1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China, U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 8
Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.
2021 September 23, Larry Elliott, “Petrol disruption will fuel fears of new winter of discontent”, in The Guardian
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, […]
2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 70
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.
2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN

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From tank + -er.