"antitank" meaning in English

See antitank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From anti- + tank. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|anti-|tank}} anti- + tank Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} antitank (not comparable)
  1. (military) Of weapons or tactics, designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Military Synonyms: anti-armour, anti-armor, AT [abbreviation], anti-tank Related terms: armour-piercing, armor-piercing, shaped-charge, hollow-charge, anti-personnel, antipersonnel Translations (designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles): проціта́нкавы (procitánkavy) (Belarusian), antitanc [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 反戰車 (Chinese Mandarin), 反战车 (fǎnzhànchē) (Chinese Mandarin), 反坦克 (fǎntǎnkè) (Chinese Mandarin), protitankový [masculine] (Czech), panssarintorjunta- (Finnish), anti-char (French), antitanque (Galician), ტანკსაწინააღმდეგო (ṭanḳsac̣inaaɣmdego) (Georgian), ჯავშანტექნიკის საწინააღმდეგო (ǯavšanṭekniḳis sac̣inaaɣmdego) (Georgian), αντιαρματικός (antiarmatikós) [masculine] (Greek), 対戦車 (taisensha) (alt: たいせんしゃ) (Japanese), танкіге қарсы (tankıge qarsy) (Kazakh), ប្រឆាំងនឹងរថក្រោះ (prɑcʰaŋ nɨŋ rʊət krɑh) (Khmer), 대전차 (daejeoncha) (alt: 對戰車) (Korean), противтенковски (protivtenkovski) (Macedonian), przeciwpancerny (Polish), przeciwczołgowy (Polish), antitanque (Portuguese), antitanques (Portuguese), anticarro (Portuguese), anticarros (Portuguese), antitanc (Romanian), противота́нковый (protivotánkovyj) (Russian), pansarvärns- (Swedish), протита́нковий (protytánkovyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), chống tăng (Vietnamese)

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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          "roman": "tankıge qarsy",
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          "roman": "prɑcʰaŋ nɨŋ rʊət krɑh",
          "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
          "word": "ប្រឆាំងនឹងរថក្រោះ"
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          "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
          "word": "대전차"
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          "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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          "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "roman": "prɑcʰaŋ nɨŋ rʊət krɑh",
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      "word": "ប្រឆាំងនឹងរថក្រោះ"
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
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      "word": "протита́нковий"
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      "sense": "designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles",
      "word": "chống tăng"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.