Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BANK

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Definitions of BANK

1. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
2. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
3. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
4. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
5. A bench or seat for judges in court.
6. 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
7. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
8. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
9. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
10. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
11. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
12. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
13. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
14. (countable, mostly, in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
15. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
16. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
17. (transitive) To put into a bank.
18. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
19. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
20. (nautical, hydrology) 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).
21. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
22. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
23. (rail) An incline, a hill.
24. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
25. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
26. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
27. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
28. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
29. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
30. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
31. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
32. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
33. (rail, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
34. (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.
35. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
36. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
37. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
38. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
39. A village in the, New Forest in, Hampshire, England.
40. (rail) 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)
41. A surname.

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Examples of Using BANK in a Sentence

• The Republic of Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies; the International Monetary Fund; and the World Bank.
• Armenia is pursuing funding from the Asian Development Bank to launch the construction of this infrastructure project.
• In October 2017, the World Bank updated the international poverty line, a global absolute minimum, to $1.
• The city is located on the left bank of the Middle Euphrates, at the junction with the Nahr Isa canal, the first of the navigable canals that link the Euphrates to the River Tigris to the east.
• Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Galashiels, on the south bank of the River Tweed.
• Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hīt.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 1550, Philippines.
• Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract.
• Körpe and Yavuz concurred with both Bommelaer and Strauss that the latter stream is the more likely candidate and additionally identified the probable site of the associated settlement as a rise on the left bank of the Münipbey Deresi known as Kalanuro Tepesi, based on geographical features and archaeological remnants.
• After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
• This bank formed from tectonic forces at the boundary where the Caribbean Plate collides with the North American Plate.
• The World Bank classified country's transportation as underdeveloped but noted that Burkina Faso is a natural geographic transportation hub for West Africa.
• The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.
• Located at 1 Garden Road on Hong Kong Island, the tower houses the headquarters of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited.
• At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railroad, a director of the Tenth National Bank, a director of the New-York Printing Company, the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, a significant stockholder in iron mines and gas companies, a board member of the Harlem Gas Light Company, a board member of the Third Avenue Railway Company, a board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, and the president of the Guardian Savings Bank.
• Bank of North Dakota, a state-owned and -run financial institution, based in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA.
• The government is a member of most major international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
• Constitutional Modernisation has come to the forefront of politics recently with the collapse of the now defunct Euro Bank Corporation in 2003.
• The economy of Chile operates as a market economy and is classified as a high-income economy by the World Bank.
• The economy of Cyprus is a high-income economy as classified by the World Bank, and was included by the International Monetary Fund in its list of advanced economies in 2001.

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