An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
Money; profit
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A device used to store coins or currency.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
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.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
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.
A kind of table used by printers.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Slang for money
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
To put into a bank.
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
To pass by the banks of.
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.