bank

Plural: banks

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"
• a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
  • "he cashed a check at the bank"
  • "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
• a long ridge or pile
  • "a huge bank of earth"
• an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
  • "he operated a bank of switches"
• a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
• the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
  • "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
• 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
• a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
  • "the coin bank was empty"
• a building in which the business of banking transacted
  • "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
• a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
  • "the plane went into a steep bank"
• 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.
• A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
• The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
• 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.
• An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
• An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
• A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
• The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
• An incline, a hill.
• A mass of clouds.
• The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• A kind of table used by printers.
• A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Verb

Verb Forms: banked, banking, banks

• To deposit money; to rely or count on something.
• tip laterally
  • "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
• enclose with a bank
  • "bank roads"
• do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
  • "Where do you bank in this town?"
• act as the banker in a game or in gambling
• be in the banking business
• put into a bank account
• cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
  • "bank a fire"
• have confidence or faith in
  • "bank on your good education"
• To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
• To put into a bank.
• To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
• To provide banking services to.
• To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
• To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
• To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
• To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
• To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• To pass by the banks of.
• To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
• To arrange or order in a row.

Examples

• a bank of pay phones
• a bank of switches
• blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
• He banked with Barclays.
• If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
• I’m going to bank the money.
• Johnny banked some coke for me.
• Ores are brought to bank.
• The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
• the banks of Newfoundland
• They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
• to bank sand
• You can bank on me to find a spot for the ’Z’.

Synonyms

bank building, banking company, banking concern, camber, cant, coin bank, deposit, depository financial institution, money box, rely, savings bank, swear, trust, Lombard house, banker, banque, bar, block, grid, line, panel, rank, tier

Antonyms

distrust, mistrust, withdraw

Related Words

banc, bancassurance, banco, bankrupt, banquette, bench, frank bank, BANKABLE