Tank vs. Basin — What's the Difference?

A tank is an armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armor, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret.

An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.

A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.

A bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin.

The amount that this container can hold

A wide open container used for preparing food or for holding liquid

A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.

A circular or oval valley or natural depression on the earth's surface, especially one containing water

A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.

A washbowl; a sink.

A tank top.

A body of water that is connected to the sea and is partially or almost completely enclosed by land.

(Slang) A jail or jail cell.

A small body of water that is artificially enclosed.

To place, store, or process in a tank.

See watershed.

(Informal) To suffer a sudden decline or failure

A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center.

A closed container for liquids or gases.

A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.

An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

(obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.

The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.

The amount held by a container; a tankful.

(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.

An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

(geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.

A reservoir or dam.

To create a concavity or depression in.

A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.

To serve as or become a basin.

By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

To shelter or enclose in a basin.

(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).

The quantity contained in a basin.

A prison cell, or prison generally.

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

(rail) nodot=1 and tank locomotive.

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

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

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

(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.

A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids;

(transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.

The quantity that a basin will hold;

To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it;

(fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries;

To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.

A bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face;

To stand; to tolerate.

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.

A heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an armored division.

A jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station.

An enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads

A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids

As much as a tank will hold

A freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk

A cell for violent prisoners

Store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it

Treat in a tank;