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# tankful

«tankful» in Mova's school dictionary: **the amount a tank can hold when full: a tankful of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tankful, tankfuls)

### meaning for a pupil

A tankful is the amount a tank can hold when full: a tankful of petrol, a tankful of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used for fuel in cars and water in fish tanks. In maths word problems, a tankful is a measure: "A tankful of petrol is 50 litres; the car goes 600 km on a tankful." Phrases: "a tankful of", "on one tankful", "fill a tankful".

### examples

- The car can go 500 miles on a tankful of petrol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x1)
- We emptied a tankful of dirty water from the fish tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x2)
- A tankful costs a lot of money now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x3)
- How many buckets make a tankful? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x4)
- The farmer used a tankful of water for the cows each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x5)
- If a tankful is 40 litres and you use 8 litres a day, it lasts 5 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x6)
- The firefighters sprayed a whole tankful on the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/#x7)

### note

Plural: tankfuls (not "tanksful"). The ending -ful makes a measuring noun, like cupful, spoonful, handful. In maths problems, a tankful is the tank's full capacity; half a tankful is half of that.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tankful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tankful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.