Meaning of bank | Babel Free

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1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
2. bank (financial institution)
3. A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England
4. A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
5. A surname.
6. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs
7. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
8. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
9. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   countable
10. bench
11. 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
12. An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
13. 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)
14. A branch office of such an institution
15. To have confidence in; rely on.
16. A branch office of such an institution.
    countable
17. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
18. A bench or seat for judges in court.
19. pew
20. A surname
21. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
22. To arrange or set up in a row: "Every street was banked with purple-blooming trees" (Doris Lessing).
23. An underwriter or controller of a card game
24. 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.
25. 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
26. An underwriter or controller of a card game.
    countable
27. school of fish
28. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
29. A group of things gathered haphazardly:agglomeration, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, mountain, pile, shock, stack, tumble.
30. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital
31. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
32. A kind of table used by printers.
    archaic
33. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
    countable
34. first-person singular present indicative of bancar
35. An incline, a hill.
36. To put into a disordered pile:drift, heap, hill, lump, mound, pile (up), stack.
37. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses
38. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
39. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
    countable
40. Money; profit.
    slang, uncountable
41. A mass of clouds.
42. To place (money) in a bank:deposit, lay away, salt away.
43. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
    countable
44. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
45. To place trust or confidence in:believe in, count on (or upon), depend on (or upon), reckon on (or upon), rely on (or upon), trust (in).
46. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
    countable, in-compounds
47. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
48. to put into a bank. He banks his wages every week. bank يودِعُ في البَنْك влагам/държа пари в банка depositar vložit do banky in die Bank einzahlen sætte i banken καταθέτω depositar/ingresar en el banco hoiustama در بانک گذاشتن viedä pankkiin déposer à la banque לְהַפקִיד בַּבַּנק बैंक मे रूपया रखना položiti u banku bankba tesz menyimpan di bank setja í banka depositare in banca* 銀行に預ける 예금하다 įdėti į banką noguldīt bankā meyimpan op de bank zetten sette i banken wpłacać do banku به بانک کی اچو...
49. A device used to store coins or currency.
    countable
50. The ground at the top of a shaft.
51. a person who owns or manages a bank. bankier المَصْرَفي: صاحِب البَنْك банкер banqueiro bankéř der Bankier bankier τραπεζίτηςbanquero pankur بانکدار pankkiiri banquier/-ière בנקאי, בנקאית बैंक का संचालक, साहूकार bankar bankár bankir bankastjóri banchiere 銀行家 은행 bankininkas banķieris pemilik bank bankierbankier, bankforbindelsebankier بانکوالا، د بانك مامور banqueiro bancher банкир bankár bankir bankar bankir, bankdirektör นายธนาคาร banker 銀行業者或主管 банкір بینکار chủ ngân hàng 银行家
52. a book recording money deposited in, or withdrawn from, a bank. bankboekie دفتر دَفْتَر الحِساب المَصْرَفي банкова книжка caderneta vkladní knížka das Sparbuch bankbog βιβλιάριο καταθέσεων libreta/cartilla del banco hoiuraamat دفترچۀ پس انداز pankkikirja livret de banque סִפרֵי הַבַּנק जमा पुस्तिका bankovna knjiga betétkönyv buku simpanan di bank bankabók, sparisjóðsbók libretto di banca 銀行通帳 은행 통장 banko knygelė noguldījumu grāmatiņa buku bank rekening-courantbankbok książeczka bankowa د بانک...
53. a card issued by a bank guaranteeing payment of the holder's cheques. bankkaart بِطاقَةُ المَصْرَفي банкова карта cartão de conta corrente průkaz majitele šekového účtu die Scheckkarte ID-kort; bankkort εγγυητική κάρτα επιταγών tarjeta de identidad bancaria pangakaart دسته چک pankkikortti carte d'identité bancaire כַּרטִיס בַּנקָאי चेक bankovna kartica bankkártya kartu bank bankakort carta assegni 小切手保証カード 은행 카드 banko kortelė čeka karte kad bank betaalpas bankkort karta bankowa چك كارت cartão...

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Examples

“Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.”

“Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.”

“Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.”

“blood bank; data bank; sperm bank”

“If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.”

“Tiber trembled underneath her banks.”

“On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.”

“Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.”

“the banks of Newfoundland”

“This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.”

“It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.”

“The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.”

“Ores are brought to bank.”

“a bank of switches”

“a bank of pay phones”

“Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.”

“Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.”

“Anybody familiar with the London Underground network will know that Bank Tube station is a place to be avoided - if at all possible - on a weekday morning. Located at the very heart of London's 'Square Mile' financial district, some 70,000 people detrain there during the morning peak, to pass through its gatelines and those at the adjoining station at Monument. A further 50,000 passengers squeeze into the station complex at exactly the same time of day, in order to change between the five lines that pass through it.”

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