I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fish tank (= for keeping fish indoors, usually as pets )
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The filter in his fish tank made a quiet humming noise.
a fuel tank (= a container for storing fuel )
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The fuel tank holds 14 gallons of petrol.
a tankful/tank of petrol (= the amount of petrol that you need to fill up a car )
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He bought a tankful of petrol.
drunk tank
flotation tank
right-wing/liberal/economic etc think tank
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a leading member of a Tory think tank
septic tank
tank top
tanked up
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He went down the pub and got tanked up.
the petrol tank (= the part of a car where you put the petrol )
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The petrol tank was nearly empty.
think tank
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a leading member of a Tory think tank
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
external
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Once empty the external tank is jettisoned and will bum up in the atmosphere.
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The crane supports the orbiter while it is bolted to the external tank .
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The external tank is connected to the orbiter at three places.
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Note that on the early flights the external tank was painted to match the orbiter.
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As each external tank is only used once, a new one must be supplied from the manufacturers for every launch.
marine
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The fish within a typical marine community tank fish collection are also likely to exhibit a wide range of feeding modes.
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Their range of frozen foods is supplemented with vitamins, and suitable for marine and freshwater tanks .
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Simply keep them in a separate freshwater container and add to the marine tank as necessary for food.
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Losses are not normal Please would you advise me regarding my marine tank , which is fairly new.
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This means there may be traces of metal in it and caution is advised before using it in marine tanks .
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If this is your first marine tank , I would not consider sensitive butterfly fish, or coral invertebrates.
septic
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At the end of each barracks were latrines, which, like all in the prison, drained into septic tanks .
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It was just a septic tank .
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A burst septic tank is believed to have triggered the landslide.
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It was in virgin wilderness up north where septic tanks are forbidden.
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The use of septic tanks or cesspools may have a significant impact on maximum permissible density of dwellings per hectare.
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Everywhere, it was like an over-flowing septic tank or something rotting.
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This system is used with a septic tank and soakaway if space is available.
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Are plot sizes large enough for septic tanks and soakaways?
■ NOUN
fish
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There was a fish tank and a heap of magazines.
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Artificial aeration sometimes permits, unfortunately, the overcrowding of the fish tank .
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It is easy to see why the Angelfish makes such a popular addition to a community fish tank .
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He opened up the lid of what must have been a fish tank holding their live catch.
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Trying to escape him was about as feasible as trying to escape a very big shark in a very small fish tank .
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A good home for the caterpillars is a fish tank .
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Your best bet is to let the insurance company know that you have a fish tank before you take out a policy.
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The large fish tank is set into the back wall most tastefully.
fuel
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A 34 gallon fuel tank was placed below the cabin floor.
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But Columbia lacked at least 450 pounds of propellant in its forward and aft fuel tanks for the task.
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If there was a spare fuel tank she didn't know about it.
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Also on the small side is the 14-gallon fuel tank .
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Back home, the back seat was replaced with an eighty litres fuel tank .
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Both versions have the same size fuel tank , which, at 14. 5 gallons, is on the small side.
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He wandered around until he was under the enormous swelling bulk of the fuel tank .
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We then start to accumulate liquid hydrogen in an empty fuel tank .
gas
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This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.
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Others squeeze their bodies into gas tanks .
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Then fill up the gas tank .
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Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
oxygen
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Then she groped at her shoulder to where the oxygen tank was moulded around her triceps.
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I ran my hand over the huge jars lined up like oxygen tanks on the kitchen counters against the walls.
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Unfortunately there was a problem with the oxygen tank that was not discovered until the countdown test.
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A close inspection reveals that in a past life they were oxygen tanks .
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The tiny oxygen tank on his back was uncomfortable but deemed necessary in case the mist became too choking.
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In the meantime, he wandered the streets, wheeling an oxygen tank he needed to treat his emphysema, Ewing said.
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But oxygen tanks fuelled the flames.
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The tank that eventually found itself as oxygen tank 2 on Apollo 13 started its life in Apollo 10.
petrol
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Here, the turtle-back fairings over the 65-gallon petrol tanks can be clearly seen.
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It sounds mean as hell; you can feel the engine resonating through the petrol tank when the bike is stationary.
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Adam crawled out of the Audi, grabbed Billie and ran with her before the petrol tanks exploded.
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The tyres went and the petrol tank ignited.
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He refilled the petrol tank from Mario's jerrican, and after another ten minutes or so was ready to drive on.
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Can't you put sugar in his petrol tank or something?
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The reports state its petrol tank had been holed.
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The survivors of Lampard's patrol ate dates, sipped water, cleaned weapons, filled petrol tanks and treated the wounded.
storage
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He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded, hurling him 120 feet into a wall.
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The districts, whose three large storage tanks hold 51 million gallons, used about 23 million gallons a day last May.
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As with the service propulsion system, the propellants were force-fed to the engine by pressurized helium from a storage tank .
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The puff signals nearby storage tanks of calcium.
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And the office building was next to the storage tank .
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The gasoline additive had leaked from underground storage tanks at a Navy gas station.
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That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child.
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It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.
think
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Not all tax credits are actually credits, says independent think tank , the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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The think tank said that 180,000 jobs had been lost in Labour's first three years.
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This assertion is made in a new report by the Washington-based think tank , Resources for the Future.
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Larry Madden, founder of a liturgical think tank .
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Often, departing high-level administration types go teach dry government courses or submerge themselves in think tanks .
top
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I take off my jumper and stand in my tank top , sipping a whiskey I have been bought.
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She wore a red tank top , black jeans, high white sneakers.
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Really he's an indoors guy, nightclubs and double brandies and impressing chicks in tank tops with sloppy eyes.
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Pictures of Western women in tank tops , short-shorts, and tights also attracted the attention of local photographers.
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It looked great for about ten minutes but now it's as pertinent as the tank top .
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Consider the image of the Mona Lisa on a tank top .
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Cindy's loose hair and sporty tank top are used to suggest a late twentieth-century femininity which is supposedly more liberated.
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Heck, I wear tank tops and shorts all the time.
water
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My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
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My own little room, a hundred yards from the house, had for its roof a water tank .
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To lighten it, a water tank had to be emptied.
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An aging water tank rises above the sheds that shelter the sheep from rain and the sweltering summer sun.
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It comprised a platform raised on baulks above the truck on which was mounted a rectangular water tank .
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He pulled the chain that hung down from the water tank .
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Water Hygiene and Ventilation - the specialised cleaning service for industrial and commercial ventilation systems, water tanks and cooling towers.
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She filled the water tanks , fed the animals.
■ VERB
fill
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But you couldn't feel smug about filling up your tank with unleaded while all that was going on.
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At the pole, we fill the tanks with 400 tons of water and 700 tons of hydrogen and oxygen.
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To operate, always fill the water tank while the machine is disconnected from the mains socket.
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Then fill up the gas tank .
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There were plenty more to fill your tank to the one inch to two gallons stocking ratio recommended.
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Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
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These dutiful wives will stoke their boilers, fill their tanks to keep them running.
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The problem is filling the antimatter tanks without annihilating them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The hot water tank is leaking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anti-static absorbent cloths are available for use with tank cleaning preparations, and Quick Wipes for tank interiors.
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He opened up the lid of what must have been a fish tank holding their live catch.
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In smaller tanks it is useful in corners and in larger tanks as a center piece.
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Its creeping stock branches very quickly and rapidly make a thick green carpet completely covering the bottom of the tank .
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My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
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Only then could the swop, from one tank to another, take place.
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Other options include 150-gallon fuel tanks, a nod to the thirst of the Shamu-size vehicles.
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She had never seen a tank close to.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fuel
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We know that the forward part of the fuel tank failed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Car buying tanked as Saturn's first car rolled off the assembly line.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I was still getting hired to do movies, even though the films all appeared to be tanking.