ALL meanings of banks
Banks
B b - noun banks Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000) 3
- noun banks Sir Joseph. 1743–1820, British botanist and explorer: circumnavigated the world with James Cook (1768–71) 3
- noun banks Plural form of bank. 1
- noun banks an arrangement of objects in a line or in tiers: a bank of seats; a bank of lights. 1
- noun banks Music. a row of keys on an organ. 1
- noun banks a row of elevator cars, as in a hotel or high-rise office building. 1
- noun banks a bench for rowers in a galley. 1
- noun banks a row or tier of oars. 1
- noun banks the group of rowers occupying one bench or rowing one oar. 1
- noun banks Printing. (formerly) a bench on which sheets are placed as printed. Also called, especially British, random. the sloping work surface at the top of a compositor's workbench. a table or rack on which type material is stored before being made up in forms. 1
- noun banks Also called deck. Journalism. a part of a headline containing one or more lines of type, especially a part that appears below the main part. 1
- noun banks Electricity. a number of similar devices connected to act together: a bank of transformers; a bank of resistors. 1
- verb with object banks to arrange in a bank: to bank the seats; to bank the lights. 1
- verb without object banks to keep money in or have an account with a bank: Do you bank at the Village Savings Bank? 1
- verb without object banks to exercise the functions of a bank or banker. 1
- verb without object banks Games. to hold the bank. 1
- noun banks plural of bank. 0
- verb banks third-person singular simple present indicative form of bank. 0