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      bank
      noun
      (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
      (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
      (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
      (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
      (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
      (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
      (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
      (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
      (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
      (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
      (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
      (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
      (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
      (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
      A mass of clouds.
      (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
      (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
      (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
      A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
      A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
      (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.
      (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
      A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
      A bench or seat for judges in court.
      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
      (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
      A surname.
      (rail transport) A major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England and one of the busiest stations on the network (OS grid ref TQ3281)
      A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
      (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
      verb
      (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
      (transitive) To put into a bank.
      (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
      (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
      (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
      (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
      (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
      (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
      (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
      (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
      (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
      (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
      (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
      Synonyms for bank
      depositnsubtreasuryndepositoryntreasuryn
      Words related to bank
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