bank

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Noun

1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. A branch office of such an institution.
3. An underwriter or controller of a card game.
4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. Money; profit.
7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
   • blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
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.
10. A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
    • All of the drum kits are on bank 1.

Verb

1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
   • He banked with Barclays.
2. To put into a bank (financial institution).
   • I’m going to bank the money.
3. To store in a bank (storage).
4. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
   • Johnny banked some coke for me.
5. To provide banking services to.
   • They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

Noun

1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
2. An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
   • the banks of Newfoundland
3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
5. An incline, a hill.
6. A mass of clouds.
   • The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
7. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
9. The ground at the top of a shaft.
   • Ores are brought to bank.

Verb

1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
   • to bank sand
4. To form a bank; to gather in masses.
5. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
7. To pass by the banks of.
8. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Noun

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
   • a bank of switches
   • a bank of pay phones
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. 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.
4. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Verb

1. To arrange or order in a row.

Noun

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. 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
4. A kind of table used by printers.
5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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