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Bank

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounAn institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2.NounA branch office of such an institution.
3.NounAn underwriter or controller of a card game.
4.NounA fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5.NounThe sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6.NounMoney; profit.
7.NounIn certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8.NounA safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
"blood bank; data bank; sperm bank"
9.NounA device used to store coins or currency.
"If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank."
10.VerbTo deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
"He banked with Barclays."
11.VerbTo put into a bank.
"I’m going to bank the money."
12.VerbTo conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
"Johnny banked some coke for me."
13.VerbTo provide banking services to.
"They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities."
14.NounAn edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
15.NounAn elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
"the banks of Newfoundland"
16.NounA slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
17.NounThe incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
18.NounAn incline, a hill.
19.NounA mass of clouds.
"The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front."
20.NounThe face of the coal at which miners are working.
21.NounA deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
22.NounThe ground at the top of a shaft.
"Ores are brought to bank."
23.VerbTo roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
24.VerbTo cause (an aircraft) to bank.
25.VerbTo form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
"to bank sand"
26.VerbTo form a bank; to gather in masses.
27.VerbTo cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
28.VerbTo raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
29.VerbTo pass by the banks of.
30.VerbTo provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
31.NounA row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
"a bank of switches; a bank of pay phones"
32.NounA row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
33.NounA 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.
34.NounA set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
35.VerbTo arrange or order in a row.
36.NounA bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
37.NounA bench or seat for judges in court.
38.NounThe 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
39.NounA kind of table used by printers.
40.NounA bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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