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▸ noun: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) ("The plane went into a steep bank")
▸ noun: a building in which commercial banking is transacted ("The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon")
▸ noun: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers ("He operated a bank of switches")
▸ noun: a long ridge or pile ("A huge bank of earth")
▸ noun: sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) ("They pulled the canoe up on the bank")
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games ("He tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo")
▸ noun: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
▸ noun: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities ("He cashed a check at the bank")
▸ noun: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home ("The coin bank was empty")
▸ verb: tip laterally ("The pilot had to bank the aircraft")
▸ verb: be in the banking business
▸ verb: act as the banker in a game or in gambling
▸ verb: do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank ("Where do you bank in this town?")
▸ verb: cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning ("Bank a fire")
▸ verb: enclose with a bank ("Bank roads")
▸ verb: put into a bank account
▸ verb: have confidence or faith in ("Bank on your good education")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8006)
▸ Also see banks
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to bank
▸ Usage examples for bank
▸ Idioms related to bank (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing bank
▸ Words that often appear near bank
▸ Rhymes of bank
▸ Invented words related to bank
▸ noun: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) ("The plane went into a steep bank")
▸ noun: a building in which commercial banking is transacted ("The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon")
▸ noun: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers ("He operated a bank of switches")
▸ noun: a long ridge or pile ("A huge bank of earth")
▸ noun: sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) ("They pulled the canoe up on the bank")
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games ("He tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo")
▸ noun: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
▸ noun: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities ("He cashed a check at the bank")
▸ noun: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home ("The coin bank was empty")
▸ verb: tip laterally ("The pilot had to bank the aircraft")
▸ verb: be in the banking business
▸ verb: act as the banker in a game or in gambling
▸ verb: do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank ("Where do you bank in this town?")
▸ verb: cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning ("Bank a fire")
▸ verb: enclose with a bank ("Bank roads")
▸ verb: put into a bank account
▸ verb: have confidence or faith in ("Bank on your good education")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8006)
▸ Also see banks
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to bank
▸ Usage examples for bank
▸ Idioms related to bank (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing bank
▸ Words that often appear near bank
▸ Rhymes of bank
▸ Invented words related to bank