Tank vs. Howitzer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tank and Howitzer
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Tank
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.
Howitzer
A howitzer () is a long-ranged weapon, falling between a cannon (also known as artillery gun in the U.S.), which fires shells at flat trajectories, and a mortar, which fires at high angles of ascent and descent. Howitzers, like other artillery equipment, are usually organized in a group called a battery.
Tank
A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.
Howitzer
A relatively short cannon that delivers shells at a medium muzzle velocity, usually by a high trajectory.
Tank
The amount that this container can hold
Buy a tank of gas.
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Howitzer
A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.
Tank
A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.
Howitzer
A powerfully hit shot.
Tank
A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.
Howitzer
To attack with a howitzer.
Tank
An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.
Howitzer
A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
Tank
A tank top.
Howitzer
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Tank
(Slang) A jail or jail cell.
Tank
To place, store, or process in a tank.
Tank
(Informal) To suffer a sudden decline or failure
The stock market tanked yesterday.
Tank
A closed container for liquids or gases.
Tank
An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
Tank
A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
Tank
The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
Tank
The amount held by a container; a tankful.
I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
Tank
An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
Tank
A reservoir or dam.
Tank
A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
Tank
By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
Tank
(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
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).
Tank
A prison cell, or prison generally.
Tank
A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
Tank
(rail) nodot=1 and tank locomotive.
Tank
To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
Tank
(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.
Tank
(transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
Tank
To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
Tank
(fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
Tank
To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
Tank
To stand; to tolerate.
Tank
A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
Tank
A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Tank
A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home.
The tanks are full and the grass is high.
Tank
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.
Tank
A jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station.
Tank
An enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
Tank
A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
Tank
As much as a tank will hold
Tank
A freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
Tank
A cell for violent prisoners
Tank
Store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
Tank
Treat in a tank;
Tank animal refuse
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