1. bank(n = noun.object) - 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"
is a kind of incline, side, slope
has particulars: riverbank, riverside, waterside
Derived form verb bank2
2. bank(n = noun.group) banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution - 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"
is a kind of financial institution, financial organisation, financial organization
is a member of banking industry, banking system
has particulars: credit union, federal reserve bank, reserve bank, agent bank, commercial bank, full service bank, state bank, agent bank, lead bank, member bank, acquirer, merchant bank, acquirer, thrift institution, home loan bank
Derived forms verb bank6, verb bank5, verb bank3
3. bank(n = noun.object) - a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
is a kind of ridge
has particulars: bluff, sandbank
4. bank(n = noun.group) - an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
is a kind of array
5. bank(n = noun.possession) - a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies);
is a kind of backlog, reserve, stockpile
has particulars: blood bank, eye bank, food bank, soil bank
6. bank(n = noun.possession) - the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
is a kind of cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource
7. bank(n = noun.object) camber, cant - 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;
is a kind of incline, side, slope
8. bank(n = noun.artifact) coin bank, money box, savings bank - a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
is a kind of container
has particulars: penny bank, piggy bank
9. bank(n = noun.artifact) bank building - a building in which the business of banking transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
is a kind of deposit, depositary, depository, repository
has parts: bank vault, vault
Derived forms verb bank6, verb bank5, verb bank3
10. bank(n = noun.act) - a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"
is a kind of airplane maneuver, flight maneuver
has particulars: vertical bank
Derived form verb bank1
1. bank(v = verb.motion) - tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
is one way to tip
Derived form noun bank10
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
2. bank(v = verb.contact) - enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
is one way to close in, enclose, inclose, shut in
Derived form noun bank1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
3. bank(v = verb.possession) - do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"
is one way to transact
Derived forms noun bank9, noun bank2, adjective bankable2, noun banking2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s PP
4. bank(v = verb.possession) - act as the banker in a game or in gambling;
is one way to act
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
5. bank(v = verb.possession) - be in the banking business;
is one way to do work, work
Derived forms noun bank9, noun bank2, adjective bankable2, noun banker1, noun banking1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
6. bank(v = verb.possession) deposit - put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month"
is one way to give
Derived forms noun bank9, noun bank2, adjective bankable2, noun banking2
Sample sentences:
They bank the money
7. bank(v = verb.contact) - cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"
is one way to cover
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
8. bank(v = verb.cognition) rely, swear, trust - have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
is one way to believe
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s PP
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. [1913 Webster]
1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. [1913 Webster]
"They cast up a bank against the city." [1913 Webster]
2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. [1913 Webster]
3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. [1913 Webster]
"Tiber trembled underneath her banks." [1913 Webster]
4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. [1913 Webster]
5. The face of the coal at which miners are working. [1913 Webster]
6. The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45
7. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8. The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn. [PJC]
1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. Holland. [1913 Webster]
2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. [1913 Webster]
3. To pass by the banks of. Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves. [PJC]
1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. [1913 Webster]
"Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep
Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep." [1913 Webster]
2. The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
3. A sort of table used by printers. [1913 Webster]
4. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight. [1913 Webster]
1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. [1913 Webster]
2. The building or office used for banking purposes. [1913 Webster]
3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital. [1913 Webster]
"Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money." [1913 Webster]
4. The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. [1913 Webster]
5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines. [1913 Webster]
6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; [PJC]
To deposit in a bank. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. [1913 Webster]
2. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. [1913 Webster]
To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
bank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the sloping edge of land by a river. b the area of ground alongside a river (had a picnic on the bank).
2 a raised shelf of ground; a slope.
3 an elevation in the sea or a river bed.
4 the artificial slope of a road etc., enabling vehicles to maintain speed round a curve.
5 a mass of cloud, fog, snow, etc.
6 the edge of a hollow place (e.g. the top of a mine-shaft).
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) heap or rise into banks.
2 tr. heap up (a fire) tightly so that it burns slowly.
3 a intr. (of a vehicle or aircraft or its occupant) travel with one side higher than the other in rounding a curve. b tr. cause (a vehicle or aircraft) to do this.
4 tr. contain or confine within a bank or banks.
5 tr. build (a road etc.) higher at the outer edge of a bend to enable fast cornering.
bank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a financial establishment which uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, exchanges currency, etc. b a building in which this business takes place.
2 = piggy bank.
3 a the money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling games. b the banker in such games.
4 a place for storing anything for future use (blood bank; data bank).
--v.
1 tr. deposit (money or valuables) in a bank.
2 intr. engage in business as a banker.
3 intr. (often foll. by at, with) keep money (at a bank).
4 intr. act as banker in some gambling games.
Idiom:
bank balance the amount of money held in a bank account at a given moment. bank-bill
1 Brit. a bill drawn by one bank on another.
2 US = BANKNOTE. bank-book = PASSBOOK. bank card = cheque card. bank holiday a day on which banks are officially closed, (in the UK) usu. kept as a public holiday. bank manager a person in charge of a local branch of a bank. the Bank of England the central bank of England and Wales, issuing banknotes and having the Government as its main customer. bank on rely on (I'm banking on your help). bank statement a printed statement of transactions and balance issued periodically to the holder of a bank account.
bank, n.
1 a row of similar objects, esp. of keys, lights, or switches.
2 a tier of oars.
Etymology:
ME f. OF banc f. Gmc: rel. to BANK(1), BENCH
N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.
N pitfall, rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags, sands, quicksands, syrt, syrtis, Goodwin sands, sandy foundation, slippery ground, breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast, rock ahead, breakers ahead, precipice, maelstrom, volcano, ambush, pitfall, trapdoor, trap, sword of Damocles, wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot, latency, ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort, firebrand, hornet's nest, latet anquis in herba, proximus ardet Ucalegon.
N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.
N treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper, cash register, kutcherry, bursary, strong box, strong hold, strong room, coffer, chest, safe, bank vault, depository, till, tiller, purse, money bag, money box, porte-monnaie, purse strings, pocket, breeches pocket, sinking fund, stocks, public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities, Consols, credit mobilier, bonds.
N obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness, slopeness, leaning, bevel, tilt, bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch, distortion, bend, tower of Pisa, acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity, gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent, shelving beach, talus, monagne Russe, facilis descensus averni.
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
agent bank, bank account, bank bill, bank book, bank building, bank card, bank charter, bank check, bank clerk, bank closing, bank commissioner, bank deposit, bank discount, bank draft, bank examination, bank examiner, bank failure, bank gravel, bank guard, bank holding company, bank holiday, bank identification number, bank line, bank loan, bank manager, bank martin, bank note, bank of england, bank of japan, bank on, bank rate, bank robber, bank run, bank shot, bank statement, bank swallow, bank vault, bank withdrawal, blood bank, bottle bank, central bank, cloud bank, coin bank, commercial bank, country bank, european central bank, eye bank, federal home loan bank system, federal reserve bank, federal savings bank, food bank, full service bank, home loan bank, industrial bank, international bank for reconstruction and developm, lead bank, left bank, member bank, merchant bank, mutual savings bank, national bank, oyster bank, penny bank, people's bank, piggy bank, reserve bank, right bank, russian bank, savings bank, savings bank trust, sea bank, soil bank, sperm bank, state bank, vertical bank, west bank, world bank