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bank¹
- /ˈbæŋk/ Australia, US, UK
- [ˈbæŋk] Australia, US, UK
- /ˈbaŋk/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- [ˈbaŋk] British, Northern England, Scotland
- /ˈbɛŋk/ New Zealand
- [ˈbɛŋk] New Zealand
- /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] Canada, US
- /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] Canada, US
Rhymes with -æŋk
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).
noun banks · banck · bancke · banke
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. 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
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A branch office of such an institution.
Similar: Lombard house
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- Money; profit. Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
- 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. blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
- A device used to store coins or currency. If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
- A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer. All of the drum kits are on bank 1.
verb banks · banking · banked · banck · bancke
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. He banked with Barclays.
- To put into a bank (financial institution). I’m going to bank the money.
- To store in a bank (storage). the procurement, banking or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. Johnny banked some coke for me.
- To provide banking services to. They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
bank²
- /ˈbæŋk/ Australia, US, UK
- [ˈbæŋk] Australia, US, UK
- /ˈbaŋk/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- [ˈbaŋk] British, Northern England, Scotland
- /ˈbɛŋk/ New Zealand
- [ˈbɛŋk] New Zealand
- /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] Canada, US
- /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] Canada, US
Rhymes with -æŋk
Where it comes from
From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
noun banks · banck · bancke · banke
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
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An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
the banks of Newfoundland
Similar: bar
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- An incline, a hill. This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
- A mass of clouds. The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
- 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. Ores are brought to bank.
verb banks · banking · banked · banck · bancke
- 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 bank sand
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To form a bank; to gather in masses.
[…] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.
Similar: 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. Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
- To pass by the banks of. Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive. Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on
bank³
- /ˈbæŋk/ Australia, US, UK
- [ˈbæŋk] Australia, US, UK
- /ˈbaŋk/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- [ˈbaŋk] British, Northern England, Scotland
- /ˈbɛŋk/ New Zealand
- [ˈbɛŋk] New Zealand
- /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] Canada, US
- /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] Canada, US
Rhymes with -æŋk
Where it comes from
From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).
noun banks · banck · bancke · banke
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. a bank of switches
- 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.
verb banks · banking · banked · banck · bancke
- To arrange or order in a row.
bank⁴
- /ˈbæŋk/ Australia, US, UK
- [ˈbæŋk] Australia, US, UK
- /ˈbaŋk/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- [ˈbaŋk] British, Northern England, Scotland
- /ˈbɛŋk/ New Zealand
- [ˈbɛŋk] New Zealand
- /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] Canada, US
- /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ Canada, US
- [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] Canada, US
Rhymes with -æŋk
Where it comes from
Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
noun banks · banck · bancke · banke
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
- 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.
Bank⁵
Where it comes from
From Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô.
proper noun
- A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
- 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) 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 throug
Bank⁶
Where it comes from
Various origins:
* Borrowed from Dutch and German Bank (“bench”), a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked with a bench or counter, like a money changer.
* Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Bank, a topographic surname from bank (“sandbank”) or, alternatively, a nickname for a loud an noisy person, from bank (“noise”).
proper noun Banks
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: savings bank, money box, swear, rely, trust, cant, camber, deposit, bank building, banking company, banking concern, coin bank, banque, interbank, banker, shareholder
Translations
Every language
noun institution
| Español | banca, banco |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 은행 eunhaeng |
| 日本語 | 銀行 ginkō, バンク banku |
| 中文 | 銀行 /银行 yínháng |
| हिन्दी | बैंक baiṅk |
| Kiswahili | benki |
| Português | banco |
| Français | banque |
| Deutsch | Bank |
| Italiano | banca, banco |
| Ελληνικά | τράπεζα trápeza |
| Română | bancă |
| Русский | банк bank |
| Tiếng Việt | ngân hàng, nhà băng |
| العربية | مَصْرِف maṣrif, بَنْك bank |
| עברית | בַּנְק bank |
noun branch office
| Español | banco, sucursal |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 은행 eunhaeng |
| 日本語 | 銀行 ginkō, バンク banku, 支店 shiten |
| 中文 | 銀行 /银行 yínháng |
| Português | banco |
| Français | banque |
| Deutsch | Bank |
| Italiano | banca |
| Ελληνικά | τράπεζα trápeza, υποκατάστημα ypokatástima |
| Русский | банк bank |
| العربية | مَصْرِف maṣrif, بَنْك bank |
| עברית | בַּנְק bank |
noun fund used in transacting business
| Português | caixa |
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noun fund of pieces to draw from
| Português | monte |
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noun storage for important goods
| Español | banco, almacén |
|---|---|
| Português | banco |
| Français | banque |
| Deutsch | Bank |
| Italiano | banca |
| Ελληνικά | τράπεζα trápeza |
| Русский | банк bank, храни́лище xranílišče, склад sklad |
noun device used to store coins or currency
| Español | hucha |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 貯金箱 chokinbako |
| Português | cofre |
| Deutsch | Sparschwein |
verb to deal with a bank or financial institution
| Español | tener la cuenta en |
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verb to put into bank
| Español | ahorrar, depositar, ingresar |
|---|---|
| Português | depositar |
| Italiano | depositare |
| Ελληνικά | καταθέτω katathéto |
| Română | depune |
| Русский | класть в банк klastʹ v bank |
noun edge of river or lake
| Español | ribera, orilla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 둑 duk |
| 日本語 | 岸 kishi, バンク banku |
| 中文 | 岸 àn |
| Português | margem, ribeira |
| Français | rive |
| Deutsch | Ufer |
| Italiano | riva, sponda, argine, ripa |
| Ελληνικά | όχθη óchthi |
| Română | mal, țărm |
| Русский | бе́рег béreg, брег breg |
| Tiếng Việt | bờ |
| العربية | ضِفَّة ḍiffa |
| עברית | גדה gada |
noun an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank
| Español | banco, bajío |
|---|---|
| Português | banco |
| Français | banc |
| Deutsch | Bank |
| Italiano | banco |
| Ελληνικά | αμμοσύρτις ammosýrtis |
| Русский | о́тмель ótmelʹ, ба́нка bánka |
noun embankment, an earth slope
| Español | talud, terraplén |
|---|---|
| Português | talude |
| Deutsch | Bank |
| Italiano | cumulo |
| Ελληνικά | ανάχωμα anáchoma, πλαγιά plagiá |
| Română | pantă |
| Русский | вал val, на́сыпь násypʹ |
noun incline of an aircraft
| Español | ladeo |
|---|---|
| Italiano | sbandamento |
| Русский | вира́ж viráž |
verb to incline laterally in order to turn
| Español | ladearse |
|---|---|
| Русский | накреня́ться nakrenjátʹsja |
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