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Cylinder vs Tank - What's the difference?

cylinder | tank |

As nouns the difference between cylinder and tank

is that cylinder is a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve while tank is a closed container for liquids or gases.

As a verb tank is

to fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.

cylinder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
    • When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder''. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a ''right cylinder''. In non-mathematical usage, both ''right'' and ''circular are usually implied.
  • (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  • Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
  • * 1898 — , The War of the Worlds Ch.4
    • A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder .
  • A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  • A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
  • An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  • The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "cylinder")

    Derived terms

    * cylinder head * cylindrical * fire on all cylinders ----

    tank

    English

    (wikipedia tank)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water (1915).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A closed container for liquids or gases.
  • An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
  • The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
  • The amount held by a container; a tankful.
    • I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
  • An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
  • (Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
  • A large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
  • By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
  • (slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
  • (gaming, video games, online games) In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.
    • Synonyms
    * (military fighting vehicle) battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)
    Derived terms
    * antitank * battle tank * cavalry tank * combat tank * cruiser tank * empty the tank * fast tank * fish tank * flame tank * flamethrower tank * heavy tank * infantry tank * light tank * main battle tank * medium tank * tankbuster * tank destroyer * tank suit * tank top * tankette * tank farm * tankini * think tank
    Hypernyms
    * (military fighting vehicle) armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle
    Hyponyms
    * (military fighting vehicle) infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), tankette (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flame tank, flamethrower tank
    Coordinate terms
    * (military fighting vehicle) armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, tank destroyer, assault gun

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
  • (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
  • To put fuel into a tank
  • To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
  • * '>citation
    • Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
  • A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
    • (Simmonds)
    (Webster 1913)

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