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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

... Shock said to himself, and drove out to a little bluff of poplars at the river bank near the town, ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... of the properties essential for the repairs to the heavens, how it would be transmuted into human form and introduced by Mang Mang the High Lord, and Miao Miao, the Divine, into the world of mortals, and how it would be led over the other bank (across the San Sara). On the surface, the record of the spot where it would fall, the place of its birth, as well as various family trifles and trivial love affairs of young ladies, verses, odes, speeches and enigmas was still complete; but the name of the dynasty ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... one of this class. A very beautiful process for accomplishing this object has been employed in America. A boat is placed at the bottom of the rapid, and kept in its position by a long rope which is firmly fixed on the bank of the river near the top. An axis, having a wheel similar to the paddle-wheel of a steamboat fixed at each end of it, is placed across the boat; so that the two wheels and their connecting axis shall revolve rapidly, being driven by the force of the passing current. Let us now imagine ...

— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage

... actually do the running, and the company that ships the Chinks to Mexico. The smugglers get about five hundred a head for every man they get in. The 'chock gee' is often counterfeited, but not very successfully. It's printed like a government bank bill, and is just as ...

— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker

... very remarkable it is to think that the corporation pays a swinging price for the precious land! Billy looks more prosperous than ever; he sets up another horse, reduces rivals to silence by driving forth in a new victoria, and becomes more and more the familiar bosom friend of the bank manager. I might go on to give a score of examples showing how innocent rate-payers are fleeced by barefaced robbers, but the catalogue would be only wearisome. Let any man of probity venture to force his way into one of these dens of thieves and see how he will fare! It is ...

— Side Lights • James Runciman

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