supertanker in English

noun
1
a very large oil tanker, specifically one whose dead-weight capacity exceeds 75,000 tons.
It is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world, where every type of vessel, from vast supertankers to small dhows, go about their business.

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1. And this gigantic vehicle did not have to lumber along like a supertanker or a freight train.

2. Rather than reflecting Jehovah’s reasonableness, he responded more like the freight train or the supertanker mentioned earlier.

3. Similarly, a supertanker may coast onward for another five miles [8 km] after the engines are shut off.

4. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates.