DICTOMETER

BANK

(bank, banco, orilla, ribera, banke, bredd, kant)

1. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
   Examples:
   • They pulled the canoe up on the bank
   • He sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Depository financial institution
   • Bank
   • Banking concern
   • Banking company
   Definitions:
   • a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
   Examples:
   • He cashed a check at the bank
   • That bank holds the mortgage on my home
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • a long ridge or pile
   Examples:
   • A huge bank of earth
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
   Examples:
   • He operated a bank of switches
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
   Examples:
   • He tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   • Cant
   • Camber
   Definitions:
   • 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
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Savings bank
   • Coin bank
   • Money box
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
   Examples:
   • The coin bank was empty
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   • Bank building
   Definitions:
   • a building in which the business of banking transacted
   Examples:
   • The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Bank
    Definitions:
    • a flight maneuver
    • aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
    Examples:
    • The plane went into a steep bank
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • tip laterally
   Examples:
   • The pilot had to bank the aircraft
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • enclose with a bank
   Examples:
   • Bank roads
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
   Examples:
   • Where do you bank in this town?
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • act as the banker in a game or in gambling
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • be in the banking business
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Deposit
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • put into a bank account
   Examples:
   • She deposits her paycheck every month
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
   Examples:
   • Bank a fire
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Trust
   • Swear
   • Rely
   • Bank
   Definitions:
   • have confidence or faith in
   Examples:
   • We can trust in God
   • Rely on your friends
   • Bank on your good education
   • I swear by my grandmother's recipes