Definitions for Banks

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Banks Banks

Spelling: [bangks]

IPA: /bæŋks/

Banks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Banks (abkns).

Definitions for Banks

noun

1. Sir Joseph, 1734–1820, English naturalist.
2. Nathaniel Prentiss [pren-tis] /ˈprɛn tɪs/ (Show IPA), 1816–94, U.S. army officer and politician: Speaker of the House 1856–57.
3. a long pile or heap; mass:
4. a slope or acclivity.
5. Physical Geography. the slope immediately bordering a stream course along which the water normally runs.
6. a broad elevation of the sea floor around which the water is relatively shallow but not a hazard to surface navigation.
7. Coal Mining. the surface around the mouth of a shaft.
8. Also called cant, superelevation. the inclination of the bed of a banked road or railroad.
9. Aeronautics. the lateral inclination of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
10. Billiards, Pool. the cushion of the table.
11. an institution for receiving, lending, exchanging, and safeguarding money and, in some cases, issuing notes and transacting other financial business.
12. the office or quarters of such an institution.
13. Games. the stock or fund of pieces from which the players draw. the fund of the manager or the dealer.
14. a special storage place:
15. a store or reserve.
16. Obsolete. a sum of money, especially as a fund for use in business. a moneychanger's table, counter, or shop.
17. an arrangement of objects in a line or in tiers:
18. Music. a row of keys on an organ.
19. a row of elevator cars, as in a hotel or high-rise office building.
20. a bench for rowers in a galley.
21. a row or tier of oars.
22. the group of rowers occupying one bench or rowing one oar.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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 Banks

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 Banks

The Banks of the river were steep, and consisted of soft clay.

The Banks of the watercourse were steep, the bottom was sandy.

The Banks of the brook at this spot are composed of purple-brown slate (Silurian).

The Big Five Banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

About how much did the group allegedly steal from Mosul Banks?

From far and wide, wild people flocked to the Banks of the river.

He don't trust any Banks, but keeps his money concealed in the earth.

Shadman transferred millions to Banks outside Afghanistan in 2013 to buy property to open a business in Dubai, according to Banes.

These Banks…are a whole lot bigger now than they were when we bailed them out in 2008 because they were too big to fail.

The argument now is how to limit certain types of plays that Banks can make under certain circumstances.