Definitions for Bank

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Bank bank

Spelling: [bangk]

IPA: /bæŋk/

Bank is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Bank (abkn).

Definitions for Bank

noun

1. a long pile or heap; mass:
2. a slope or acclivity.
3. Physical Geography. the slope immediately bordering a stream course along which the water normally runs.
4. a broad elevation of the sea floor around which the water is relatively shallow but not a hazard to surface navigation.
5. Coal Mining. the surface around the mouth of a shaft.
6. Also called cant, superelevation. the inclination of the bed of a banked road or railroad.
7. Aeronautics. the lateral inclination of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
8. Billiards, Pool. the cushion of the table.
9. an institution for receiving, lending, exchanging, and safeguarding money and, in some cases, issuing notes and transacting other financial business.
10. the office or quarters of such an institution.
11. Games. the stock or fund of pieces from which the players draw. the fund of the manager or the dealer.
12. a special storage place:
13. a store or reserve.
14. Obsolete. a sum of money, especially as a fund for use in business. a moneychanger's table, counter, or shop.
15. an arrangement of objects in a line or in tiers:
16. Music. a row of keys on an organ.
17. a row of elevator cars, as in a hotel or high-rise office building.
18. a bench for rowers in a galley.
19. a row or tier of oars.
20. the group of rowers occupying one bench or rowing one oar.
21. Printing. (formerly) a bench on which sheets are placed as printed. Also called, especially British, random. the sloping work surface at the top of a compositor's workbench. a table or rack on which type material is stored before being made up in forms.
22. Also called deck. Journalism. a part of a headline containing one or more lines of type, especially a part that appears below the main part.
23. Electricity. a number of similar devices connected to act together:

Verb phrases

1. bank on/upon, to count on; depend on:

verb (used with object)

1. to border with or like a bank; embank:
2. to form into a bank or heap (usually followed by up):
3. to build (a road or railroad track) with an upward slope from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
4. Aeronautics. to tip or incline (an airplane) laterally.
5. Billiards, Pool. to drive (a ball) to the cushion. to pocket (the object ball) by driving it against the bank.
6. to cover (a fire) with ashes or fuel to make it burn long and slowly.
7. to deposit in a bank:
8. to arrange in a bank:

verb (used without object)

1. to build up in or form banks, as clouds or snow.
2. Aeronautics. to tip or incline an airplane laterally.
3. Horology. (of a lever or balance) to be halted at either end of its oscillation by striking a pin or the like.
4. (of a road or railroad track) to slope upward from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
5. to keep money in or have an account with a bank:
6. to exercise the functions of a bank or banker.
7. Games. to hold the bank.

Origin of Bank

1150-1200; Middle English banke, Old English hōbanca couch; cognate with Old Norse bakki elevation, hill, Swedish backe, Danish bakke Germanic *bank-ōn-; perhaps akin to Sanskrit bhañj- bend,

Examples for Bank

We, the West, send tons of money down there, and in my view a lot of it ends up in a Swiss bank.

A bank's not the place to get the knowledge of business necessary for that sort of thing.

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.

Mr. Sanders came in from the bank, but he was later than usual.

A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

I should have thought this weather and the bank behind it furnace enough, mother!

And the angels waiting for them on the bank like laundresses with their clean shirts!

The seizures were the first time SIGAR investigators seized funds held in an Afghan bank.

They were on the bank of a stream of some width, and apparently a deep and rapid one.

At this point in his life, Denton has enough filthy lucre in his bank account to affect a certain lack of interest in the stuff.