'Bank' definitions:
Definition of 'bank'
From: WordNet
noun
Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
noun
A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home" [syn: depository financial institution, bank, banking concern, banking company]
noun
A long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
noun
An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
noun
A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
noun
The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
noun
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 [syn: bank, cant, camber]
noun
A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty" [syn: savings bank, coin bank, money box, bank]
noun
A building in which the business of banking transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" [syn: bank, bank building]
noun
A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"
verb
Tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
verb
Enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
verb
Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"
verb
Act as the banker in a game or in gambling
verb
Be in the banking business
verb
Put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month" [syn: deposit, bank] [ant: draw, draw off, take out, withdraw]
verb
Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"
verb
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\ (b[a^][ng]k), n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.]
- 1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. [1913 Webster]
- They cast up a bank against the city. --2 Sam. xx. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. [1913 Webster]
- Tiber trembled underneath her banks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (A["e]ronautics) The lateral inclination of an a["e]roplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45[deg] is easy; a bank of 90[deg] is dangerous. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 7. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 8. The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn. [PJC]
- Bank beaver (Zool.), the otter. [Local, U.S.]
- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(b[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Banking.]
- 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves. [PJC]
- To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
- 1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The building or office used for banking purposes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital. [1913 Webster]
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. [1913 Webster]
- 5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; specifically, an organization that stores biological products for medical needs; as, a blood bank, an organ bank, a sperm bank. [PJC]
- Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon.
- Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping.
- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, n. [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See Bench.]
- 1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. [1913 Webster]
- Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Printing) A sort of table used by printers. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, v. t. To deposit in a bank. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, v. i.
- 1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Bank \Bank\, v. i. (A["e]ronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an a["e]rocurve, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Bank'
From: GCIDE
- Banc \Banc\, Bancus \Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. [1913 Webster]
- In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bank'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- abutment,
- advanced work,
- align,
- anthill,
- arc-boutant,
- arch dam,
- archives,
- arm,
- armor,
- armor-plate,
- armory,
- array,
- arsenal,
- articulation,
- ascend,
- attic,
- backstop,
- balistraria,
- bamboo curtain,
- Bank of England,
- Bank of France,
- bank up,
- banquette,
- bar,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barrage,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- basement,
- bastion,
- battle,
- battlement,
- bay,
- beach,
- beam,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- berm,
- bet on,
- bevel,
- bezel,
- bin,
- bird sanctuary,
- blockade,
- board,
- bonded warehouse,
- bookcase,
- boom,
- border,
- bordure,
- box,
- branch bank,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- brim,
- brink,
- broadside,
- brow,
- buffer,
- build on,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- bundle away,
- bunker,
- burn,
- bursary,
- buttery,
- buttress,
- buttress pier,
- buttressing,
- buzz,
- cache,
- calculate,
- cant,
- careen,
- cargo dock,
- casemate,
- cash register,
- cashbox,
- castellate,
- catena,
- catenation,
- cellar,
- central bank,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- cheek,
- chest,
- cheval-de-frise,
- chop,
- chute,
- circumvallation,
- clearing house,
- climb,
- closet,
- coal mine,
- coast,
- coastland,
- coastline,
- cock,
- coffer,
- cofferdam,
- coin box,
- colliery,
- commercial bank,
- compact,
- concatenation,
- concentrate,
- conflagrate,
- connection,
- consecution,
- conservatory,
- continuum,
- contravallation,
- coral reef,
- count on,
- counterscarp,
- course,
- crab,
- crate,
- credit union,
- crenellate,
- crib,
- cupboard,
- curtain,
- cycle,
- dam,
- decline,
- defense,
- demibastion,
- depend,
- deposit,
- depository,
- depot,
- descend,
- descent,
- dig in,
- diggings,
- dike,
- dip,
- ditch,
- dock,
- drawbridge,
- drawer,
- drift,
- drone,
- drop,
- dump,
- dune,
- earthwork,
- easy slope,
- edge,
- embankment,
- embattle,
- enclosure,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- enkindle,
- entanglement,
- entrench,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- exchequer,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fan the flame,
- farm loan bank,
- feather,
- featheredge,
- federal land bank,
- Federal Reserve bank,
- feed,
- feed the fire,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- file,
- filiation,
- finance company,
- finance corporation,
- fire,
- fisc,
- fishtail,
- flange,
- flank,
- flat,
- fleam,
- flying buttress,
- ford,
- foreshore,
- forest preserve,
- Fort Knox,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fortify,
- frame,
- fringe,
- gamble on,
- game reserve,
- gamut,
- garrison,
- gate,
- gentle slope,
- glacis,
- glory hole,
- go downhill,
- go uphill,
- godown,
- gold depository,
- gold mine,
- gradation,
- grade,
- gradient,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hand,
- handedness,
- hanging buttress,
- hanging gardens,
- haunch,
- haycock,
- haymow,
- hayrick,
- haystack,
- heap,
- heap up,
- helicline,
- hem,
- hill,
- hillside,
- hip,
- hoard,
- hock shop,
- hold,
- hum,
- hutch,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- ignite,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inclined plane,
- Indian file,
- Indian reservation,
- inflame,
- intend,
- International Monetary Fund,
- invest,
- investment bank,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound coast,
- jackpot,
- jam,
- jetty,
- jowl,
- jutty,
- keel,
- kindle,
- kitty,
- labellum,
- labium,
- labrum,
- laterality,
- launching ramp,
- lay aside,
- lay away,
- lay down,
- lay in,
- lay in store,
- lean,
- leaping weir,
- ledge,
- lending institution,
- levee,
- library,
- lido,
- light,
- light up,
- limb,
- limbus,
- line,
- line up,
- lineage,
- lip,
- list,
- littoral,
- locker,
- lodge,
- logjam,
- Lombard Street bank,
- loop,
- loophole,
- lot,
- lumber room,
- lumberyard,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- magasin,
- magazine,
- man,
- man the garrison,
- mantelet,
- many-sidedness,
- marge,
- margin,
- mass,
- member bank,
- merlon,
- milldam,
- mine,
- moat,
- mole,
- molehill,
- money chest,
- moneyed corporation,
- monotone,
- mortgage company,
- mound,
- mountain,
- mow,
- multilaterality,
- museum,
- mutual savings bank,
- national bank,
- national forest,
- national park,
- nexus,
- nonmember bank,
- open cut,
- opencast,
- outwork,
- pack away,
- palisade,
- paradise,
- parados,
- parapet,
- park,
- pawnbroker,
- pawnbrokery,
- pawnshop,
- pendulum,
- penny bank,
- periodicity,
- pier,
- pier buttress,
- piggy bank,
- pile,
- pile up,
- pit,
- pitch,
- plage,
- plan,
- planking,
- playa,
- plenum,
- plow,
- pool,
- pork barrel,
- porpoise,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- pot,
- powder train,
- preserve,
- profile,
- progression,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- push down,
- put away,
- pyramid,
- quarry,
- quarter,
- queue,
- rack,
- ragged edge,
- rake,
- ramp,
- rampart,
- range,
- rank,
- ravelin,
- reckon on,
- recurrence,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- reef,
- rekindle,
- relight,
- relume,
- repertory,
- reposit,
- repository,
- reservation,
- reserve,
- reserve bank,
- reservoir,
- retaining wall,
- reticulation,
- retreat,
- rick,
- rim,
- rise,
- riverside,
- riviera,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- rockbound coast,
- roll,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- safe,
- safe-deposit box,
- sally port,
- salt away,
- salt down,
- sanctuary,
- sandbank,
- sandbar,
- sands,
- save,
- savings bank,
- scale,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- sea line,
- sea margin,
- seabank,
- seabeach,
- seaboard,
- seacliff,
- seacoast,
- seashore,
- seaside,
- seawall,
- selvage,
- sequence,
- series,
- set aside,
- set fire to,
- set on fire,
- shaft,
- shallow,
- shallows,
- shelf,
- shelve,
- shelving beach,
- shingle,
- shoal,
- shoal water,
- shore,
- shoreline,
- shoulder,
- shutter dam,
- side,
- sideline,
- sideslip,
- siding,
- sidle,
- single file,
- skid,
- skirt,
- slant,
- slope,
- snowbank,
- snowdrift,
- spectrum,
- spin,
- spiral,
- squirrel away,
- stack,
- stack room,
- stack up,
- stake,
- stakes,
- stash,
- state bank,
- state forest,
- steep slope,
- stiff climb,
- stir the fire,
- stock room,
- stockade,
- stoke,
- stoke the fire,
- stone wall,
- storage,
- store,
- store away,
- storehouse,
- storeroom,
- stow,
- stow away,
- stow down,
- strand,
- strike a light,
- string,
- string out,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- stunt,
- submerged coast,
- subtreasury,
- succession,
- supply base,
- supply depot,
- swag,
- swath,
- sway,
- Swiss bank,
- talus,
- tank,
- temple,
- tenaille,
- thread,
- tidal flats,
- tidewater,
- tier,
- tiger,
- till,
- tilt,
- tip,
- torch,
- touch off,
- train,
- treasure house,
- treasure room,
- treasure-house,
- treasury,
- trust company,
- trust in,
- undulate,
- unilaterality,
- uprise,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- vat,
- vault,
- venture,
- verge,
- wager,
- wall,
- warehouse,
- waterfront,
- waterside,
- weir,
- wetlands,
- wicket dam,
- wilderness preserve,
- wildlife preserve,
- windrow,
- wine cellar,
- work,
- workings,
- World Bank,
- yaw
Words containing 'Bank'
- Banked,
- Banking,
- Banks,
- Banks, OR,
- In bank,
- bank on,
- Bank beaver,
- Bank bill,
- Bank book,
- Bank check,
- Bank credit,
- Bank discount,
- Bank martin,
- Bank of deposit,
- Bank of issue,
- Bank swallow,
- Banking house,
- Banking pin,
- Banks County,
- Banks, AL,
- Banks, AR,
- Banks, GA,
- Country bank,
- Court in bank,
- Cut Bank,
- Days in bank,
- East Bank,
- Faro bank,
- Fog bank,
- Foot bank,
- National bank,
- People's bank,
- Red Bank,
- Savings bank,
- Sea bank,
- Spoil bank,
- Swath bank,
- To bank a fire,
- To bank up a fire,
- Warping bank,
- agent bank,
- bank account,
- bank building,
- bank card,
- bank charter,
- bank clerk,
- bank closing,
- bank cod,
- bank commissioner,
- bank deposit,
- bank draft,
- bank examination,
- bank examiner,
- bank failure,
- bank gravel,
- bank guard,
- bank holiday,
- bank line,
- bank loan,
- bank manager,
- bank note,
- bank of england,
- bank of japan,
- bank rate,
- bank robber,
- bank run,
- bank shot,
- bank statement,
- bank vault,
- bank withdrawal,
- banking company,
- banking concern,
- banking game,
- banking industry,
- banking system,
- blood bank,
- bottle bank,
- central bank,
- cloud bank,
- coin bank,
- commercial bank,
- eye bank,
- food bank,
- home banking,
- industrial bank,
- lead bank,
- left bank,
- member bank,
- merchant bank,
- oyster bank,
- penny bank,
- piggy bank,
- reserve bank,
- right bank,
- russian bank,
- snow bank,
- soil bank,
- sperm bank,
- state bank,
- vertical bank,
- west bank,
- world bank,
- Bank-sided,
- Banks County, GA,
- Banks Lake South,
- Cut Bank, MT,
- Double-bank,
- Double-banked,
- East Bank, WV,
- Left bank of a river,
- Red Bank, NJ,
- Red Bank, SC,
- Red Bank, TN,
- bank holding company,
- bank identification number,
- european central bank,
- federal reserve bank,
- federal savings bank,
- full service bank,
- home loan bank,
- joseph banks rhine,
- mutual savings bank,
- savings bank trust,
- sir joseph banks,
- Bank-note detector,
- Banks Lake South, WA,
- To double-bank an oar,
- bank-depositor relation,
- international bank for reconstruction and development,
- federal home loan bank system