Bank

[bæŋk]

Definition

(noun.) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); 'the plane went into a steep bank'.

(noun.) a building in which the business of banking transacted; 'the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon'.

(noun.) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; 'he operated a bank of switches'.

(noun.) a long ridge or pile; 'a huge bank of earth'.

(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 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.

(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 supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies).

(verb.) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; 'bank a fire'.

(verb.) enclose with a bank; 'bank roads'.

(verb.) tip laterally; 'the pilot had to bank the aircraft'.

(verb.) be in the banking business.

(verb.) act as the banker in a game or in gambling.

(verb.) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; 'Where do you bank in this town?'.

Typist: Shane--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

(n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

(n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

(n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

(n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.

(v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

(v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

(v. t.) To pass by the banks of.

(n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

(n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A sort of table used by printers.

(n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.

(n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

(n.) 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.

(n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

(v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

(v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

(v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

Editor: Martin

Definition

n. a bench in a galley: a tier or rank of oars: the bench on which judges sat.

n. a mound or ridge of earth: the earthy margin of a river lake &c.: the raised edge of a road railway cutting &c.: (min.) the surface at the pit-mouth as in banksman: rising ground in the sea.—v.t. to enclose with a bank: to deposit or pile up: to make up a fire by covering it with a heap of fuel so pressed down as to remain a long time burning slowly—banked fires.—n. Banks′man an overseer at a pit-mouth.—From bank to bank from the time the collier begins to descend the pit for his spell of work till he reaches the top again.

n. a place where money is deposited: an institution for the keeping lending and exchanging &c. of money: in games of hazard the money the proprietor who plays against all the others has before him.—v.t. to deposit in a bank as money.—ns. Bank′-ā′gent the head of a branch bank; Bank′-bill a bill drawn by one bank upon another payable at a future date or on demand; Bank′-cheque an order to pay issued upon a bank; Bank′er one who keeps a bank: one employed in banking business:—fem. Bank′eress; Bank′-hol′iday a day on which banks are legally closed bills falling due on these being payable the following day; Bank′ing the business of a banker.—adj. pertaining to a bank.—ns. Bank′-note a note issued by a bank which passes as money being payable to bearer on demand; Bank′-pap′er bank-notes in circulation; Bank′-stock a share or shares in the capital stock of a bank; Branch′-bank a branch office of a bank; Sav′ings-bank one intended originally to develop a spirit of saving amongst the poor.—Bank annuities the consolidated three per cent. annuities—British Government funds.—Bank of issue one that issues its own notes or promises to pay; Joint-stock bank one of which the capital is subscribed by a large number of shareholders; Private bank one carried on by any number of persons less than ten.—To break the bank to win as in faro from the management a certain sum which has been fixed upon as the limit the bank is willing to lose on any one day; To play against the bank to take the risks of a game against the manager who holds the bank as at rouge-et-noir &c.

Typist: Shirley