banks

/bæŋks/

noun

1
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2
A branch office of such an institution.
3
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
4
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6
Money; profit
7
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
“blood bank; sperm bank; data bank”
9
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.”

1
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
“He banked with Barclays.”
2
To put into a bank.
“I'm going to bank the money.”
3
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
“Johnny banked some coke for me.”

1
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
2
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).
“the banks of Newfoundland”
3
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
4
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
5
An incline, a hill.
6
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
“The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.”
7
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
8
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
9
The ground at the top of a shaft.
“Ores are brought to bank.”

1
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
2
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
3
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
“to bank sand”
4
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
5
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
6
To pass by the banks of.
7
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

1
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
“a bank of pay phones”
2
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3
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.
4
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

1
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
2
A bench or seat for judges in court.
3
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.
4
A kind of table used by printers.
5
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
6
Slang for money

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