"holding tank" meaning in All languages combined

See holding tank on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: holding tanks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} holding tank (plural holding tanks)
  1. A container for storage toilet waste in a vehicle
    Sense id: en-holding_tank-en-noun-PLL~4-65
  2. A holding cell
    Sense id: en-holding_tank-en-noun-9NmKRcjO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holding tanks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "holding tank (plural holding tanks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A container for storage toilet waste in a vehicle"
      ],
      "id": "en-holding_tank-en-noun-PLL~4-65",
      "links": [
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ],
        [
          "toilet",
          "toilet"
        ],
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:",
          "text": "After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A holding cell"
      ],
      "id": "en-holding_tank-en-noun-9NmKRcjO",
      "links": [
        [
          "holding cell",
          "holding cell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "holding tank"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holding tanks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "holding tank (plural holding tanks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A container for storage toilet waste in a vehicle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ],
        [
          "toilet",
          "toilet"
        ],
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:",
          "text": "After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A holding cell"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "holding cell",
          "holding cell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "holding tank"
}

Download raw JSONL data for holding tank meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.