bank
(noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); “the plane went into a steep bank”
bank, bank building
(noun) a building in which the business of banking transacted; “the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon”
bank
(noun) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; “he operated a bank of switches”
bank
(noun) a long ridge or pile; “a huge bank of earth”
bank
(noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); “they pulled the canoe up on the bank”; “he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents”
bank, cant, camber
(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
bank
(noun) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; “he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo”
bank
(noun) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
count, bet, depend, swear, rely, bank, look, calculate, reckon
(verb) have faith or confidence in; “you can count on me to help you any time”; “Look to your friends for support”; “You can bet on that!”; “Depend on your family in times of crisis”
bank
(verb) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; “bank a fire”
bank
(verb) enclose with a bank; “bank roads”
bank
(verb) tip laterally; “the pilot had to bank the aircraft”
deposit, bank
(verb) put into a bank account; “She deposits her paycheck every month”
bank
(verb) be in the banking business
bank
(verb) act as the banker in a game or in gambling
bank
(verb) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; “Where do you bank in this town?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bank (plural banks)
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
Synonym: banker
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
(slang, uncountable) money; profit
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A device used to store coins or currency.
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
(transitive) To put into a bank.
(transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
bank (plural banks)
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
(nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
(rail transport) An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
(transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
(rail, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
bank (plural banks)
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
(transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
bank (plural banks)
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
(uncountable) slang for money
• Knab, knab, nabk
Bank
A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
(rail) A major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England and one of the busiest stations on the network (OS grid ref TQ3281)
• Knab, knab, nabk
Source: Wiktionary
Banc, Ban"cus, Bank, n. Etym: [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n.]
Definition: A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).
Bank, n. Etym: [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin.; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.]
1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.
2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.
4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.
Bank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(p. pr. & vb. n. Banking.]
1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." Holland.
2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] Shak. To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.
Bank, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See Bench.]
1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.
2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. Burrill.
3. (Printing)
Definition: A sort of table used by printers.
4. (Music)
Definition: A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.
Bank, n. Etym: [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
2. The building or office used for banking purposes.
3. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. [Obs.] Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon.
4. (Gaming)
Definition: The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has give -- Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping.
– Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
Bank, v. t.
Definition: To deposit in a bank.
Bank, v. i.
1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
2. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
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