Definition of "bank"

bank¹

/bæŋk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural banks
1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  Quotations
  Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
  2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  Quotations
  Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
  Quotations
  Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
  2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
verb
third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked
1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  Quotations
  the sort of face you would happily bank with
  1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. (transitive) To put into a bank.
3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

bank²

/bæŋk/

noun
plural banks
1. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  Quotations
  Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
  On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
  1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXI, number 134, page 1
  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.
  2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian
2. (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).
3. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
4. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
5. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
  Quotations
  This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
  1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640
6. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
7. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
8. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
9. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
verb
third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked
1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
2. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
3. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
4. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
5. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  Quotations
  Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
  1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635
6. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
  Quotations
  Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
  c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, act 5, scene 2
7. (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
  Quotations
  Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
  1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93
  [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
  1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443
  Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.
  1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558

bank³

/bæŋk/

noun
plural banks
1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  Quotations
  Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
  2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
verb
third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked
1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

bank⁴

/bæŋk/

noun
plural banks
1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  Quotations
  Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
  1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas
2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. 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
4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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