Tank vs. Canister — 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.

A round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.

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

A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.

The amount that this container can hold

A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.

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

A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.

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

A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.

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

Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.

A tank top.

The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.

(Slang) A jail or jail cell.

A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).

To place, store, or process in a tank.

Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.

(Informal) To suffer a sudden decline or failure

A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.

A closed container for liquids or gases.

A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

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

A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.

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

Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.

The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.

(transitive) To pack into a canister.

The amount held by a container; a tankful.

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

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

A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.

A reservoir or dam.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; - called also canister shot.

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

A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm

By extension a small pond for the same purpose.

Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

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

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).

A prison cell, or prison generally.

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

(rail) nodot=1 and tank locomotive.

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.

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

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

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

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

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;