bank
IPA: bˈæŋk
noun
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (gambling, countable) 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.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
- (rail transport) 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)
- A surname.
verb
- (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.
- (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 transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
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Examples of "bank" in Sentences
- Banks and financiers are at the top of the pyramid.
- The unit of account of the bank is the Islamic Dinar.
- It brings a whole new movie -- meaning to the term bank branch.
- The taxpayers exchanged the cash for newer currency at the bank.
- The bank also laundered large amounts of cash for drug traffickers.
- This money is credited to the bank account of the seller of the Iou.
- A 'crossed cheque' can only be paid into a bank account of the payee.
- The bank caters the financial need of the Farmers in Ulickal Panchayat.
- The bank is the largest subsidiary of First Defiance Financial Corporation.
- The bank was procured to strengthen local control of the financial industry.
- ** Cash only, or bank to bank** I will not accept any Cashier check of any kind.
- The word bank comes from "banco," the bench on which itinerant merchants traded.
- It does not reduce the vast menagerie of financial companies that compete with banks.
- The word bank reached new heights following the successful commercial enterprises of the East India Company.
- As exhausting as this journey must have been for the word bank, it has served English-speakers well, and richly.
- Even in countries like China, Japan, and Greece, where other words are used to capture related ideas for “banking,” the English word bank is freely recognized.xviii
- Early on, you find a alien watch that contains a journal to remind you of your quests, a map to show you where to go, an inventory showing quest items you have gathered, your word bank and other helpful items.