Bank meanings. All definitions of Bank

countable noun bank A bank is a building where a bank offers its services. 3

verb bank If you bank money, you pay it into a bank. 3

verb bank If you bank with a particular bank, you have an account with that bank. 3

countable noun bank You use bank to refer to a store of something. For example, a blood bank is a store of blood that is kept ready for use. 3

countable noun bank The banks of a river, canal, or lake are the raised areas of ground along its edge. 3

countable noun bank A bank of ground is a raised area of it with a flat top and one or two sloping sides. 3

countable noun bank A bank of something is a long high mass of it. 3

countable noun bank A bank of things, especially machines, switches, or dials, is a row of them, or a series of rows. 3

verb bank When an aircraft banks, one of its wings rises higher than the other, usually when it is changing direction. 3

noun bank an institution offering certain financial services, such as the safekeeping of money, conversion of domestic into and from foreign currencies, lending of money at interest, and acceptance of bills of exchange 3

noun bank the building used by such an institution 3

noun bank a small container used at home for keeping money 3

noun bank the funds held by a gaming house or a banker or dealer in some gambling games 3

noun bank the stock, as of money, pieces, tokens, etc, on which players may draw 3

noun bank the player holding this stock 3

noun bank any supply, store, or reserve, for future use 3

verb bank to deposit (cash, cheques, etc) in a bank 3

verb bank to transact business with a bank 3

verb bank to engage in the business of banking 3

verb bank to hold the bank in some gambling games 3

noun bank a long raised mass, esp of earth; mound; ridge 3

noun bank a slope, as of a hill 3

noun bank the sloping side of any hollow in the ground, esp when bordering a river 3

noun bank an elevated section, rising to near the surface, of the bed of a sea, lake, or river 3

noun bank (in combination) 3

noun bank the area around the mouth of the shaft of a mine 3

noun bank the face of a body of ore 3

noun bank the lateral inclination of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis during a turn 3

noun bank a bend on a road or on a railway, athletics, cycling, or other track having the outside built higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force on vehicles, runners, etc, rounding it at speed and in some cases to facilitate drainage 3

noun bank the cushion of a billiard table 3

verb bank to form into a bank or mound 3

verb bank to border or enclose (a road, etc) with a bank 3

verb bank to cover (a fire) with ashes, fresh fuel, etc, so that it will burn slowly 3

verb bank to cause (an aircraft) to tip laterally about its longitudinal axis or (of an aircraft) to tip in this way, esp while turning 3

verb bank to travel round a bank, esp at high speed 3

verb bank to drive (a ball) into the cushion 3

noun bank an arrangement of objects, esp similar objects, in a row or in tiers 3

noun bank a tier of oars in a galley 3

noun bank a bench for the rowers in a galley 3

noun bank a grade of lightweight writing and printing paper used for airmail letters, etc 3

noun bank (in automatic switching) an assembly of fixed electrical contacts forming a rigid unit in a selector or similar device 3

verb bank to arrange in a bank 3

noun bank an establishment for receiving, keeping, lending, or, sometimes, issuing money, and making easier the exchange of funds by checks, notes, etc. 3

noun bank the office or building of such an establishment 3

noun bank savings bank (sense 2) 3

noun bank the fund put up by the dealer in baccarat, out of which losses are paid 3

noun bank the entire monetary pool of a gambling establishment 3

noun bank a common fund of chips, pieces, etc. used in playing a game, as poker or dominoes 3

noun bank a reserve of things for later distribution or use, or a place for this 3

noun bank a store of blood for transfusions, body organs for transplantation, etc. 3

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