Sekirov Dictionary

bank

/ˈbæŋk/

noun28

  1. a business where people keep their money safe and can borrow money
  2. A branch office of such an institution.
  3. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  4. [in compounds] A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  5. A device used to store coins or currency.
  6. An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
  7. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  8. An incline, a hill.
  9. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  10. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  11. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  12. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
  13. A mass of clouds.
  14. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  15. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  16. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  17. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  18. (slang) Money; profit.
  19. A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
  20. An underwriter or controller of a card game.
  21. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  22. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  26. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  27. The ground at the top of a shaft.
  28. (no longer used) A kind of table used by printers.

verb14

  1. To put into a bank (financial institution).
  2. To store in a bank (storage).
  3. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  4. To provide banking services to.
  5. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  6. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  7. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  8. To form a bank; to gather in masses.
  9. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  10. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  11. To arrange or order in a row.
  12. (slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
  13. (UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
  14. (no longer used) To pass by the banks of.
forms

banked · banking · banks

Phrases with bank

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