bank

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.Examples: "He banked with Barclays."; "the sort of face you would happily bank with"intransitive

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.Examples: "I’m going to bank the money."transitive

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.Examples: "Johnny banked some coke for me."slangtransitive

4. (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.Examples: "They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities."; "For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank."transitive

1. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.Examples: "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."

2. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forthExamples: "the banks of Newfoundland"Synonyms: bar

3. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

4. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

5. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.Examples: "This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks."

6. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.transitive

3. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.Examples: "to bank sand"transitive

4. (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.Examples: "[…] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall."Synonyms: bank upintransitive

5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.transitive

6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.Examples: "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"transitive

1. (computing) 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.

2. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.transitive