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bank

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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

Examples :

"My parents opened a savings account at the bank for my college fund. "

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A branch office of such an institution.

Examples :

"My aunt works at the bank downtown. "

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An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

Examples :

"The bank in our card game decided the next player would be Sarah. "

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

Examples :

"The school's building fund is a bank of money, available for new equipment and improvements. "

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The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

Examples :

"The poker club's bank contained $500 for the evening's games. "

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Examples :

"The family's savings account held a healthy bank of money, enough for a nice vacation. "

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

Examples :

"The domino bank contained all the pieces for the game. "

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A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Examples :

"blood bank; sperm bank; data bank"

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A device used to store coins or currency.

Examples :

"If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank."

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To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

Examples :

"He banked with Barclays."

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To put into a bank.

Examples :

"I banked the money I earned from my part-time job. "

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To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Examples :

"Johnny banked some coke for me."

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An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

Examples :

"The children played near the river bank, carefully avoiding the slippery stones. "

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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).

Examples :

"the banks of Newfoundland"

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A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

Examples :

"The river's bank was covered with wildflowers. "

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The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

Examples :

"The pilot controlled the plane's bank during the turn to avoid hitting the mountain. "

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An incline, a hill.

Examples :

"The hiking trail went up a steep bank. "

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A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

Examples :

"The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front."

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The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Examples :

"The miners worked hard at the coal bank. "

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

Examples :

"The mine's coal bank is being actively worked by excavators. "

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The ground at the top of a shaft.

Examples :

"Ores are brought to bank."

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To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

Examples :

"The cyclist had to bank the bicycle sharply to make the turn. "

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To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

Examples :

"The pilot banked the airplane to the right to avoid the storm clouds. "

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To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

Examples :

"to bank sand"

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To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

Examples :

"Before leaving for the weekend, Mom banked the fire in the fireplace to keep it warm until she returned. "

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To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Examples :

"The farmers banked the river to protect their fields from flooding. "

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To pass by the banks of.

Examples :

"The hikers banked the river on their way to the campsite. "

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To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Examples :

"The engineers had to bank another engine onto the train to help it climb the steep hill. "

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A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

Examples :

"a bank of pay phones"

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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Examples :

"The piano teacher pointed to the bank of keys in the center of the keyboard. "

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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.

Examples :

"The computer's RAM was organized into four memory banks to improve processing speed. "

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A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Examples :

"The video game had a bank of five targets for the player to hit. "

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(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Examples :

"The children banked their books neatly on the shelf. "

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

Examples :

"The galley's rowers rested on the low bank of oars before their next turn. "

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A bench or seat for judges in court.

Examples :

"The judge sat on the bank in the courtroom. "

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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.

Examples :

"The appeals court held a bank to hear the case about the student's expulsion. "

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A kind of table used by printers.

Examples :

"The printer used the special bank to feed the paper smoothly. "

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

Examples :

"The organist carefully placed her fingers on the bank of ivory keys. "

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Slang for money

Examples :

"My friend said he needed some extra bank to buy a new video game. "

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