Bank

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Bank, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n.].

 A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.  [1913 Webster]

In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).

Bank, n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.].

•  A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.  [1913 Webster]

  "They cast up a bank against the city."  [1913 Webster]
•  A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.  [1913 Webster]
•  The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tiber trembled underneath her banks."  [1913 Webster]
•  An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.  [1913 Webster]
•  The face of the coal at which miners are working.  [1913 Webster]
•  The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45bank of 90.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.  [PJC]

Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

Bank, v. t. 

•  To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.  [1913 Webster]
•  To pass by the banks of.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.  [PJC]

To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

Bank, n. [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See Bench.].

•  A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.  [1913 Webster]

  "Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep
  Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep."  [1913 Webster]
•  The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sort of table used by printers.  [1913 Webster]
•  A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]

Bank, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.].

•  An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.  [1913 Webster]
•  The building or office used for banking purposes.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.  [1913 Webster]

  "Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money."  [1913 Webster]
•  The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.  [1913 Webster]
•  In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.  [1913 Webster]
•  a place where something is stored and held available for future use;  [PJC]

Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. -- Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

Bank, v. t. 

 To deposit in a bank.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

Bank, v. i. 

•  To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.  [1913 Webster]
•  To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.  [1913 Webster]

Bank, v. i. 

 To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Bank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the sloping edge of land by a river. b the area of ground alongside a river (had a picnic on the bank).
2 a raised shelf of ground; a slope.
3 an elevation in the sea or a river bed.
4 the artificial slope of a road etc., enabling vehicles to maintain speed round a curve.
5 a mass of cloud, fog, snow, etc.
6 the edge of a hollow place (e.g. the top of a mine-shaft).
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) heap or rise into banks.
2 tr. heap up (a fire) tightly so that it burns slowly.
3 a intr. (of a vehicle or aircraft or its occupant) travel with one side higher than the other in rounding a curve. b tr. cause (a vehicle or aircraft) to do this.
4 tr. contain or confine within a bank or banks.
5 tr. build (a road etc.) higher at the outer edge of a bend to enable fast cornering.

Bank, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a financial establishment which uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, exchanges currency, etc. b a building in which this business takes place.
2 = piggy bank.
3 a the money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling games. b the banker in such games.
4 a place for storing anything for future use (blood bank; data bank).
--v.
1 tr. deposit (money or valuables) in a bank.
2 intr. engage in business as a banker.
3 intr. (often foll. by at, with) keep money (at a bank).
4 intr. act as banker in some gambling games.

Idiom

bank balance the amount of money held in a bank account at a given moment. bank-bill
1 Brit. a bill drawn by one bank on another.
2 US = BANKNOTE. bank-book = PASSBOOK. bank card = cheque card. bank holiday a day on which banks are officially closed, (in the UK) usu. kept as a public holiday. bank manager a person in charge of a local branch of a bank. the Bank of England the central bank of England and Wales, issuing banknotes and having the Government as its main customer. bank on rely on (I'm banking on your help). bank statement a printed statement of transactions and balance issued periodically to the holder of a bank account.

Bank, n.
1 a row of similar objects, esp. of keys, lights, or switches.
2 a tier of oars.

Etymology

ME f. OF banc f. Gmc: rel. to BANK(1), BENCH

THESAURUS

Bank

Bank of England, Bank of France, Federal Reserve bank, Fort Knox, Indian file, Indian reservation, International Monetary Fund, Lombard Street bank, Swiss bank, World Bank, abatis, abutment, advanced work, align, anthill, arc-boutant, arch dam, archives, arm, armor, armor-plate, armory, array, arsenal, articulation, ascend, attic, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, basement, bastion, battle, battlement, bay, beach, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berm, bet on, bevel, bezel, bin, bird sanctuary, blockade, board, bonded warehouse, bookcase, boom, border, bordure, box, branch bank, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, brim, brink, broadside, brow, buffer, build on, bulkhead, bulwark, bundle away, bunker, burn, bursary, buttery, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, buzz, cache, calculate, cant, careen, cargo dock, casemate, cash register, cashbox, castellate, catena, catenation, cellar, central bank, chain, chain reaction, chaining, cheek, chest, cheval-de-frise, chop, chute, circumvallation, clearing house, climb, closet, coal mine, coast, coastland, coastline, cock, coffer, cofferdam, coin box, colliery, commercial bank, compact, concatenation, concentrate, conflagrate, connection, consecution, conservatory, continuum, contravallation, coral reef, count on, counterscarp, course, crab, crate, credit union, crenellate, crib, cupboard, curtain, cycle, dam, decline, defense, demibastion, depend, deposit, depository, depot, descend, descent, dig in, diggings, dike, dip, ditch, dock, drawbridge, drawer, drift, drone, drop, dump, dune, earthwork, easy slope, edge, embankment, embattle, enclosure, endless belt, endless round, enkindle, entanglement, entrench, escarp, escarpment, exchequer, fall, fall away, fall off, fan the flame, farm loan bank, feather, featheredge, federal land bank, feed, feed the fire, fence, fieldwork, file, filiation, finance company, finance corporation, fire, fisc, fishtail, flange, flank, flat, fleam, flying buttress, ford, foreshore, forest preserve, fortalice, fortification, fortify, frame, fringe, gamble on, game reserve, gamut, garrison, gate, gentle slope, glacis, glory hole, go downhill, go uphill, godown, gold depository, gold mine, gradation, grade, gradient, gravity dam, groin, hand, handedness, hanging buttress, hanging gardens, haunch, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, helicline, hem, hill, hillside, hip, hoard, hock shop, hold, hum, hutch, hydraulic-fill dam, ignite, inclination, incline, inclined plane, inflame, intend, invest, investment bank, iron curtain, ironbound coast, jackpot, jam, jetty, jowl, jutty, keel, kindle, kitty, labellum, labium, labrum, laterality, launching ramp, lay aside, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lean, leaping weir, ledge, lending institution, levee, library, lido, light, light up, limb, limbus, line, line up, lineage, lip, list, littoral, locker, lodge, logjam, loop, loophole, lot, lumber room, lumberyard, lunette, machicolation, magasin, magazine, man, man the garrison, mantelet, many-sidedness, marge, margin, mass, member bank, merlon, milldam, mine, moat, mole, molehill, money chest, moneyed corporation, monotone, mortgage company, mound, mountain, mow, multilaterality, museum, mutual savings bank, national bank, national forest, national park, nexus, nonmember bank, open cut, opencast, outwork, pack away, palisade, paradise, parados, parapet, park, pawnbroker, pawnbrokery, pawnshop, pendulum, penny bank, periodicity, pier, pier buttress, piggy bank, pile, pile up, pit, pitch, plage, plan, planking, playa, plenum, plow, pool, pork barrel, porpoise, portcullis, postern gate, pot, powder train, preserve, profile, progression, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pull out, pull up, push down, put away, pyramid, quarry, quarter, queue, rack, ragged edge, rake, ramp, rampart, range, rank, ravelin, reckon on, recurrence, redan, redoubt, reef, rekindle, relight, relume, repertory, reposit, repository, reservation, reserve, reserve bank, reservoir, retaining wall, reticulation, retreat, rick, rim, rise, riverside, riviera, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rockbound coast, roll, rotation, round, routine, row, run, safe, safe-deposit box, sally port, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, sandbank, sandbar, sands, save, savings bank, scale, scarp, sconce, sea line, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, seawall, selvage, sequence, series, set aside, set fire to, set on fire, shaft, shallow, shallows, shelf, shelve, shelving beach, shingle, shoal, shoal water, shore, shoreline, shoulder, shutter dam, side, sideline, sideslip, siding, sidle, single file, skid, skirt, slant, slope, snowbank, snowdrift, spectrum, spin, spiral, squirrel away, stack, stack room, stack up, stake, stakes, stash, state bank, state forest, steep slope, stiff climb, stir the fire, stock room, stockade, stoke, stoke the fire, stone wall, storage, store, store away, storehouse, storeroom, stow, stow away, stow down, strand, strike a light, string, string out, strong room, strongbox, stunt, submerged coast, subtreasury, succession, supply base, supply depot, swag, swath, sway, talus, tank, temple, tenaille, thread, tidal flats, tidewater, tier, tiger, till, tilt, tip, torch, touch off, train, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, trust company, trust in, undulate, unilaterality, uprise, vallation, vallum, vat, vault, venture, verge, wager, wall, warehouse, waterfront, waterside, weir, wetlands, wicket dam, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, windrow, wine cellar, work, workings, yaw

ROGET THESAURUS

Bank

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.

Pitfall

N pitfall, rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags, sands, quicksands, syrt, syrtis, Goodwin sands, sandy foundation, slippery ground, breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast, rock ahead, breakers ahead, precipice, maelstrom, volcano, ambush, pitfall, trapdoor, trap, sword of Damocles, wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot, latency, ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort, firebrand, hornet's nest, latet anquis in herba, proximus ardet Ucalegon.

Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

Treasury

N treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper, cash register, kutcherry, bursary, strong box, strong hold, strong room, coffer, chest, safe, bank vault, depository, till, tiller, purse, money bag, money box, porte-monnaie, purse strings, pocket, breeches pocket, sinking fund, stocks, public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities, Consols, credit mobilier, bonds.

Obliquity

N obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness, slopeness, leaning, bevel, tilt, bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch, distortion, bend, tower of Pisa, acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity, gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent, shelving beach, talus, monagne Russe, facilis descensus averni.

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.