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Bank

noun

1.

Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water). "He sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"

2.

A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities. Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution. "That bank holds the mortgage on my home"

3.

A long ridge or pile.

4.

An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers.

5.

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

6.

The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games.

7.

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: camber, cant.

8.

A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home. Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank.

9.

A building in which the business of banking transacted. Synonym: bank building.

10.

A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning).

verb

(past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)

1.

Tip laterally.

2.

Enclose with a bank.

3.

Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.

4.

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.

5.

Be in the banking business.

6.

Put into a bank account. Synonym: deposit.

7.

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.

8.

Have confidence or faith in. Synonyms: rely, swear, trust. "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

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"Bank" Quotes from Famous Books

... passed on, save one who near the bank Had lain to rest till sleep stole eyes and ears. Then Attis rose and would have sought the shrine But when he saw the sleeper he stood still. He was too young to know the power of love When mighty Cybele from his far home— His home, which lay beyond the heaving ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... suppose that the ground falls gently towards the enemy and is very exposed to view for about 300 yards, and half this distance away there is a low bank running parallel to the front of the attack and with a small clump of three or four trees on the bank directly in front of the platoon. Four hundred yards away is the bottom of the valley covered with bushes and shrubs. On the far side the ground ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... time, looking all about the part of the stream where they had been playing, and all over the bank, but without finding the rings; and at last Elsie gave it up, saying it would not do to stay any longer, and ...

— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley

... bank of the Nile fully equalled Hadrian's expectations, though they had suffered so much injury from earthquakes and sieges, and the impoverished priesthood of Thebes were no longer in a position to provide for their preservation even, much less for their restoration. ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... column. Indeed, at the end of five years there was a solid balance of several thousand dollars earned on lecturing tours. But alas! the accounts grow dim again—in fact the credit column fades away. "The History of Woman Suffrage" ruthlessly swallowed up every vestige of Miss Anthony's bank account. But, in 1886, by the will of Mrs. Eddy, daughter of Francis Jackson of Boston, Miss Anthony received twenty-four thousand dollars for the Woman's Suffrage Movement, which lifted her out ...

— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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