tank
要点戦車
意味
- (液体・ガスなどを入れる)タンク
- 戦車,タンク
- …をタンクに蓄える
例文
Tom spent hours looking at the fish in the tank.
トムは水槽の魚を何時間も眺めていた。
They invaded the country with tanks and guns.
彼らは戦車と銃器でその国を侵略した。
Early in the morning, the tank battle began.
朝早くに、戦車戦は始まった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). A false friend can be found in North Germanic: dunk (“canister, keg”), 17th c. tönk, which appears derived from both Low German tunneke, Dutch tonneke (diminutive of "barrel"), and dunka (“to dunk, to dip under water, to moisten”). * In the sense of armoured vehicle, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature and due to physical resemblance. First attested in 1915, but in common usage only as of 1916. Displaced landship, and mostly displaced battlewagon.