Wiktionary
n. A container for storing water.
WordNet
n. a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet [syn: cistern]
Wikipedia
A water tank is a container for storing liquid. The need for a water tank is as old as civilization, to provide storage of water for use in many applications, drinking water, irrigation agriculture, fire suppression, agricultural farming, both for plants and livestock, chemical manufacturing, food preparation as well as many other uses. Water tank parameters include the general design of the tank, and choice of construction materials, linings. Various materials are used for making a water tank: plastics ( polyethylene, polypropylene), fiberglass, concrete, stone, steel (welded or bolted, carbon, or stainless). Earthen pots also function as water storages. Water tanks are an efficient way to help developing countries to store clean water.
Usage examples of "water tank".
So a forming die, with a flat sheet of aluminum on top, was sunk to the bottom of a sixty-thousand-gallon water tank, and a pattern of explosives was laid over the top.
We would have a gray-water tank, since all it needed was a pipe from the drain to the waste tank, in the bottom of tank two, and a valve that could be turned if we had to go into free fall, to prevent the water from backing up.
The water tank was frozen over, but Jumbo broke the thin crust with her trunk and they all clustered around to drink.
We mounted a fifty-thousand-gallon water tank in the front of the turret and .
A ranch, old Western style, with corrals, hay barns, bunk house and ranch house of logs, and a very tall windmill and a water tank beside it.
Ryan walked closer, pausing to note the water tank seemed to be almost full and pleased that the ceiling was high enough he didn't have to bend or stoop.
The adjutant was directing the five personnel who hauled a 10-cm hosepipe to a spring-fed stream to replenish the water tank.
He had rigged a gas motor and a water tank to the well m his basement that had formerly been run by an electric pump.
Reed has asked that after Garner's room is finished, the work of room-making be delayed till night, and immediate work begun on a water tank.
From the water tank, other soldiers guided them toward new clean gray trucks, with thick black deeply treaded tires, so different from the Poles' dirty deteriorated machines.