bank

1. (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
Related Words: airplane maneuver, flight maneuver, vertical bank

2. (verb) cover with ashes, of fires, to control the rate of burning
Related Words: cover

3. (verb) enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
Related Words: enclose, inclose, shut in

4. (verb) tip laterally; of boats and aircraft
Related Words: tip

5. (verb) be in the banking business
Related Words: do work, work

6. (verb) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"
Related Words: transact

7. (noun) a building in which commercial banking is transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
Synonyms: bank building
Related Words: deposit, depository, repository

8. (noun) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
Related Words: array

9. (noun) a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
Related Words: bluff, ridge, sandbank

10. (noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
Related Words: incline, riverbank, riverside, side, slope, waterside

11. (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
Synonyms: camber, cant
Related Words: incline, side, slope

12. (noun) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
Related Words: cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource

13. (noun) a supply or stock held in reserve especially for future use (especially in emergencies)
Related Words: backlog, blood bank, food bank, reserve, soil bank, stockpile

14. (verb) put into a bank account
Synonyms: deposit
Related Words: give

15. (noun) a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution
Related Words: Federal Reserve Bank, Home Loan Bank, acquirer, agent bank, commercial bank, credit union, financial institution, financial organization, full service bank, lead bank, member bank, merchant bank, reserve bank, state bank, thrift institution

16. (verb) have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"
Synonyms: rely, swear, trust
Related Words: believe, bet on, calculate on, count on, count upon, credit, depend on, depend upon, lean, look to, reckon on, rely on, rely upon

17. (noun) a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank
Related Words: container, penny bank, piggy bank



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