bank

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

2. 2

   A branch office of such an institution.

3. 3

   An underwriter or controller of a card game.

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   1. 4

      A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business

      A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

      • Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
   2. 5

      The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes…

      The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

   3. 6

      Money

      Money; profit.

      • Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
   4. 7

      In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to…

      In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

   5. 8

      A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

      • blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
   6. 9

      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.
   7. 10

      To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial…

      To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

      • He banked with Barclays.
      • the sort of face you would happily bank with
   8. 11

      To put into a bank.

      • I’m going to bank the money.
   9. 12

      To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

      • Johnny banked some coke for me.
   10. 13

       To provide banking services to.

       • They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
       • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
   11. 14

       An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

       • Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
       • On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
       • Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
   12. 15

       An elevation under the sea

       An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth

       • the banks of Newfoundland
   13. 16

       A slope of earth, sand, etc.

       A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

   14. 17

       The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

   15. 18

       An incline, a hill.

       • This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
       • It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.
   16. 19

       A mass of clouds.

       • The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
   17. 20

       The face of the coal at which miners are working.

   18. 21

       A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

   19. 22

       The ground at the top of a shaft.

       • Ores are brought to bank.
   20. 23

       To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

   21. 24

       To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

   22. 25

       To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

       • to bank sand
   23. 26

       To form a bank

       To form a bank; to gather in masses.

       • […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.
   24. 27

       To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

   25. 28

       To raise a mound or dike about

       To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

       • Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
   26. 29

       To pass by the banks of.

       • Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
   27. 30

       To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another…

       To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

       • [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
       • Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.
   28. 31

       A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

       • a bank of switches
       • a bank of pay phones
       • Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
   29. 32

       A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

   30. 33

       A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger…

       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.

   31. 34

       A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

   32. 35

       To arrange or order in a row.

   33. 36

       A bench, as for rowers in a galley

       A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

       • Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
   34. 37

       A bench or seat for judges in court.

   35. 38

       The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon…

       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

   36. 39

       A kind of table used by printers.

   37. 40

       A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

   38. 41

       A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.

   39. 42

       A major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England…

       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)

   40. 43

       A surname.

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