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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Name

Definition 1:
• A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.

Definition 2:
• A surname.

Definition 3:
• A major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England and one of the busiest stations on the network (OS grid ref TQ3281)
Labels: rail-transport, railways, transport
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/

Definition 1:
• An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
Labels: countable

Definition 2:
• An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
Labels: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences

Definition 3:
• A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

Definition 4:
• A branch office of such an institution.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: Lombard house
Labels: countable

Definition 5:
• An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
Example: the banks of Newfoundland
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bar
Labels: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences, nautical, transport

Definition 6:
• A bench or seat for judges in court.

Definition 7:
• An underwriter or controller of a card game.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: banker, banque
Labels: countable

Definition 8:
• A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
Labels: geography, natural-sciences

Definition 9:
• 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

Definition 10:
• A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
Labels: countable

Definition 11:
• The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
Labels: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Definition 12:
• A kind of table used by printers.
Labels: media, printing, publishing, archaic

Definition 13:
• The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
Labels: gambling, games, countable

Definition 14:
• An incline, a hill.
Labels: rail-transport, railways, transport

Definition 15:
• A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Definition 16:
• Money; profit.
Labels: slang, uncountable

Definition 17:
• A mass of clouds.
Example: The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

Definition 18:
• In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
Labels: countable

Definition 19:
• The face of the coal at which miners are working.
Labels: business, mining

Definition 20:
• A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
Example: blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
Labels: countable, in-compounds

Definition 21:
• A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
Labels: business, mining

Definition 22:
• A device used to store coins or currency.
Example: If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
Labels: countable

Definition 23:
• The ground at the top of a shaft.
Example: Ores are brought to bank.
Labels: business, mining

Definition 24:
• A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
Example: All of the drum kits are on bank 1.
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music, countable
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/

Definition 1:
• A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
Example: a bank of switches
Example: a bank of pay phones

Definition 2:
• A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Definition 3:
• 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.
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Definition 4:
• A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
Verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk/

Definition 1:
• To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
Example: He banked with Barclays.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 2:
• To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
Labels: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, intransitive

Definition 3:
• To arrange or order in a row.
Labels: transitive

Definition 4:
• To put into a bank (financial institution).
Example: I'm going to bank the money.
Labels: transitive

Definition 5:
• To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
Labels: transitive

Definition 6:
• To store in a bank (storage).
Labels: transitive

Definition 7:
• To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
Example: to bank sand
Labels: transitive

Definition 8:
• To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
Example: Johnny banked some coke for me.
Labels: slang, transitive

Definition 9:
• To form a bank; to gather in masses.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bank up
Labels: intransitive, of clouds

Definition 10:
• To provide banking services to.
Example: They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
Labels: business, finance, transitive

Definition 11:
• To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
Labels: transitive

Definition 12:
• To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
Labels: transitive

Definition 13:
• To pass by the banks of.
Labels: obsolete, transitive

Definition 14:
• To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
Labels: rail-transport, railways, transport, UK

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bank