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Definition of 'bank'English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) banke, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
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A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque .
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
* Francis Bacon
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
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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 .
Synonyms
* (controller of a card game) banker
Derived terms
* bankability
* bankable
* bank account
* bank agent
* bank balance
* bank bill
* bank book
* bank card
* bank charges
* bank cheque
* bank clerk
* bank draft
* banker
* bank giro
* bank holiday
( rel-mid4)
* bank interest
* bank loan
* bank manager
* banknote
* bank of deposit
* bank of issue
* bank paper
* bank rate
* bank reserves
* bank statement
* bank stock
* blood bank
* bottle bank
* break the bank
* banking
( rel-mid4)
* bankroll
* central bank
* clearing bank
* cry all the way to the bank
* databank
* food bank
* investment bank
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* joint-stock bank
* laugh all the way to the bank
* memory bank
* merchant bank
* national bank
* peat bank
* penny bank
( rel-mid4)
* piggy bank
* pot bank
* prime bank
* private bank
* reserve bank
* savings bank
* sperm bank
* spoil bank
* state bank
* stopbank
* take it to the bank
* trustee savings bank
* World Bank
( rel-bottom)
Related terms
* bankrupt
Verb
( en-verb)
To deal with a bank or financial institution.
- He banked with Barclays.
To put into a bank .
- I'm going to bank the money.
Derived terms
* bank on
Etymology 2
(etyl) banke, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
* Shakespeare
- Tiber trembled underneath her banks .
* 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness ", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
- Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank .
(nautical|hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- the banks of Newfoundland
(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
(rail transport) An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- Ores are brought to bank .
Derived terms
* bank up
* clay-bank
* cloud bank
* embank
* embankment
* land bank
* Left Bank
( rel-mid)
* left-bank
* oyster bank
* right-bank
* river bank
* sand bank
* sea bank
* West Bank
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
(aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank .
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- to bank sand
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
* Holland
- banked well with earth
(obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
(etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
Verb
( en-verb)
(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl) banc. Of German origin, and akin to English bench.
Noun
( en-noun)
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
* Waller
- Placed on their banks , the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
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.
- (Burrill)
(archaic|printing) A kind of table used by printers.
(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- (Knight)
(uncountable) slang for money
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