The difference between Tango and Tank
When used as nouns, tango means a standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time, whereas tank means a closed container for liquids or gases.
When used as verbs, tango means to dance the tango, whereas tank means to fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market).
check bellow for the other definitions of Tango and Tank
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Tango as a noun:
A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
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Tango as a noun:
A piece of music suited to such a dance.
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Tango as a noun:
The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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Tango as a noun (slang):
enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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Tango as a noun:
A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
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Tango as a verb:
To dance the tango.
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Tango as a verb (slang, intransitive):
To mingle or interact (with each other).
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Tank as a noun:
A closed container for liquids or gases.
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Tank as a noun:
An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
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Tank as a noun:
A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
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Tank as a noun:
The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
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Tank as a noun:
The amount held by a container; a tankful.
Examples:
"I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York."
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Tank as a noun:
An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
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Tank as a noun (Australian and Indian English):
A reservoir or dam.
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Tank as a noun (Southwestern US, chiefly, Texas):
A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
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Tank as a noun (Southwestern US, chiefly, Texas):
By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
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Tank as a noun (slang):
A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
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Tank as a noun (role-playing games, board games, video games):
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)
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Tank as a noun (US, slang):
A prison cell, or prison generally.
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Tank as a verb:
To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
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Tank as a verb (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.
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Tank as a verb:
To put fuel into a tank.
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Tank as a verb:
To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
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Tank as a verb (fandom slang):
To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
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Tank as a noun:
A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
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Tank as a noun:
A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
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