bank | |
1. s. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. | |
2. s. A branch office of such an institution. | |
3. s. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque. | |
4. s. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. | |
5. s. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses. | |
6. s. (slang) money; profit | |
7. s. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. | |
8. s. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. | |
blood bank; sperm bank; data bank | |
9. s. A device used to store coins or currency. | |
If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. | |
He banked with Barclays. | |
11. v. To put into a bank. | |
I'm going to bank the money. | |
12. v. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. | |
Johnny banked some coke for me. | |
13. s. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. | |
14. s. (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). | |
the banks of Newfoundland | |
15. s. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment. | |
16. s. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn. | |
17. s. (rail transport) An incline, a hill. | |
18. s. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds. | |
The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front. | |
19. s. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working. | |
20. s. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. | |
21. s. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft. | |
Ores are brought to bank. | |
22. v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. | |
23. v. To cause (an aircraft) to bank. | |
24. v. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up. | |
to bank sand | |
25. v. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat. | |
26. v. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. | |
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of. | |
28. s. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. | |
a bank of switches | |
a bank of pay phones | |
29. s. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard. | |
30. v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row. | |
31. s. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. | |
32. s. A bench or seat for judges in court. | |
33. s. 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. | |
34. s. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers. | |
35. s. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. | |
36. s. slang for money | |