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Bank   /bæŋk/   Listen
Bank

noun
1.
Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water).  "He sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
2.
A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.  Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution.  "That bank holds the mortgage on my home"
3.
A long ridge or pile.
4.
An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers.
5.
A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies).
6.
The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games.
7.
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.  Synonyms: camber, cant.
8.
A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home.  Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank.
9.
A building in which the business of banking transacted.  Synonym: bank building.
10.
A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning).
verb
(past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)
1.
Tip laterally.
2.
Enclose with a bank.
3.
Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
4.
Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
5.
Be in the banking business.
6.
Put into a bank account.  Synonym: deposit.  Antonym: withdraw.
7.
Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
8.
Have confidence or faith in.  Synonyms: rely, swear, trust.  "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"  Antonyms: distrust, mistrust.



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"Bank" Quotes from Famous Books



... dangerous coast—until she shuddered in her light summer gown. Her shoulders contracted, her teeth chattered, and that feeling of discomfort was to her as a signal for action. She took another allee of rose-bushes in flower to reach a point on the bank barren of vegetation, where was outlined the form of a boat. She soon detached it, and, managing the heavy oars with her delicate hands, she advanced toward the ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget

... Protocol, 1885. Holland, on ground of the Treaty of 1824, objected to a British settlement in Borneo; also disputed the boundary between Dutch and British Borneo. The writer 'violates' Netherland territory and hoists the Company's flag on the south bank of the Siboku, 1883. Annual tribute paid to the Brunai Government. Certain intervening independent rivers still to be acquired. Dent's first settlements at Sandakan, Tampassuk, and Pappar. Messrs. ...
— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher

... slightly with his knife, but Ratoneau, hugging him like a bear, made it difficult to strike, and the fight became a tremendous wrestling match, in which the two men struggled and panted and slipped and lurched from side to side, from the grassy bank to the willows by the water, each vainly trying to ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price

... through which Fanny drew hers without hesitation. They stepped from the piazza, and passed in among the fragrant shrubbery, following one of the garden walks, until they were in view of the scene to which Mr. Willet referred. A heavy bank of clouds had fallen in the east, and the moon was just struggling through the upper, broken edges, along which her gleaming silver lay in fringes, broad belts, and fleecy masses, giving to the ...
— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur

... direction to that which the road pursued; he was minded to see a little more of the big house perched so boldly on that bluff above the stream, looking down so scornfully at the humble village on the other bank. ...
— Captain Dieppe • Anthony Hope


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