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"
- synonyms: bank
- 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"
- A long ridge or pile.
- usage: "a huge bank of earth"
- synonyms: bank
- An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers.
- usage: "he operated a bank of switches"
- synonyms: bank
- A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies.
- synonyms: bank
- The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games.
- usage: "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
- synonyms: bank
- 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.
- 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, bank
- A building in which the business of banking transacted.
- usage: "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
- synonyms: bank, bank building
- A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning. )
- usage: "the plane went into a steep bank"
- synonyms: bank
- English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820.
- synonyms: Sir Joseph Banks
verb
- Tip laterally.
- usage: "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
- synonyms: bank
- Enclose with a bank.
- usage: "bank roads"
- synonyms: bank
- Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
- usage: "Where do you bank in this town"
- synonyms: bank
- Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
- synonyms: bank
- Be in the banking business.
- synonyms: bank
- Put into a bank account.
- usage: "She deposits her paycheck every month"
- Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
- usage: "bank a fire"
- synonyms: bank
- 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"
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