oil tanker
 
Monty Rakusen/Cultura/GettyImages

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trucks, vans & caravans
armoured car
articulated lorry
bakkie
bin lorry
bloodmobile
camper
caravan
Caterpillar track
dumper
JCB
patrol wagon
tender
tipper
tipper truck
transit
travel trailer
trucking
ute
utility truck
wrecker

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Passenger, cargo & military ships

tanker | American Dictionary

tanker
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtæŋ·kər/
a ship, aircraft, or truck built to carry liquids or gases:
an oil tanker
We watched a tanker coming into the harbor.

tanker | Business English

tanker
noun[ C ]
 TRANSPORTuk /ˈtæŋkər/us
a ship or vehicle which is built to carry liquid or gas:
an oil/petrol/refuelling tanker
a tanker driver

Examples of tanker

tanker
This collaborative study demonstrated that the existing system could not save a disabled tanker from grounding under certain conditions.
The results of the first collaborative study led to changes in tanker escort and navigation procedures.
Figure 5 shows the query interface presentation of the case description corresponding to the 'new oil tanker' example introduced above.
The text is redisplayed with 'a new oil tanker' instead of 'a ship'.
Oil tankers were initially excluded from the embargo.
In this picture the user has selected the 'new oil tanker' span.
Seaborne contamination may arise from spills from oil tankers, offshore oil exploration, ocean dumping, and the sinking of marine vessels.
In recent years, private entrepreneurs have acquired mobile water tankers to deliver household water in urban settlements, often at quite expensive prices.
The study was based on computer simulations, as well as data from experiments with tug vessels and tankers.
We waited for the tanker for an hour and a half in that open place, in the frost.
These 4500 rules were selected by domain experts as a relatively self-contained subset on the specific topic of oil tankers.
Here the user has typed 'oil' to reduce the menu, and then chooses 'new oil tanker' from the list.
Thus, if an oil tanker has been introduced in the query, it will be referred to in the answer with the definite noun phrase 'the oil tanker'.
The next step is to establish the coreference between the new oil tanker and the subject of the gross tonnage fact (corresponding to a re-entrancy in the attribute-value matrix representation).
That is the question of new rules for tankers, affecting their construction and their methods of operation.
From the
Hansard archive