tanker
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- noun
- /ˈtæŋkər/
:
petrolero
- All the oil tankers in the world are totally controlled by computers.
- oil tankers
- a tanker spill
- carried by tankers
They don't care the big tankers flying down the English Channel.
- They don't care the big tankers flying down the English Channel.
- We, we, I, we took down the US or the, the Russian tanker Volgeneft, which was a big deal at the time.
- And yeah, he's got a fleet of, of tankers and and container ships that he operates around the world.
- But the concern was because this is a Russian tanker and the Russian flag and young people who might try to resist.
Examples
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The gasoline is then loaded onto a tanker to be delivered to U.S. ports.
Academic text (2004) -
A few months earlier, I had been on a tanker in the North Atlantic.
Fiction book (1991) -
We came up behind the tanker and we were going a little bit too fast.
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Over a million tons, it's the largest tanker in the world.
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On the following day, the Sea Isle, a tanker flying the American flag, was also hit.
Academic text (1990) -
The two largest categories of these ships are oil tankers and chemical tankers.
Academic text (2008) -
Petroleum and chemical products are shipped on tankers through liquid bulk facilities.
Academic text (2005) -
A tanker has run aground... ...on the coastline, spilling millions of gallons of oil on Baby Seal Beach.
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The Torrey Canyon was a Liberian oil tanker, which went aground in international waters off the coast of Cornwall.
Academic text (2017) -
The gasoline is then loaded onto a tanker to be delivered to U.S. ports.
Synonyms
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A very large ship that carries oil across oceans
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A very large ship that carries huge amounts of oil
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A large ship that carries crude oil
A large ship that carries liquids like oil in large amounts
Compounds
How Large
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tanker comes from tank + -er. Ships called tankers carry liquids, especially oil, in large tanks, so a tanker is a ship built to move oil in bulk across the sea.