What is the meaning of bank?

noun

• Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water. )
  • usage: "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
• A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
  • usage: "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
  • synonyms: depository financial institution, banking concern, banking company
• A long ridge or pile.
  • usage: "a huge bank of earth"
• An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers.
  • usage: "he operated a bank of switches"
• A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies. )
• The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games.
  • usage: "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
• 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: cant, camber
• A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home.
  • usage: "the coin bank was empty"
  • synonyms: savings bank, coin bank, money box
• A building in which the business of banking transacted.
  • usage: "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
  • synonyms: bank building
• A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning. )
  • usage: "the plane went into a steep bank"

verb

• Tip laterally.
  • usage: "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
• Enclose with a bank.
  • usage: "bank roads"
• Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
  • usage: "Where do you bank in this town"
• Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
• Be in the banking business.
• Put into a bank account.
  • usage: "She deposits her paycheck every month"
  • synonyms: deposit
• Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
  • usage: "bank a fire"
• Have confidence or faith in.
  • usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
  • synonyms: trust, swear, rely