bank

Meaning

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.
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. (slang) 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.
9. A device used to store coins or currency.
10. a natural elevation of mud and other material under sea, rising for instance from a continental shelf
11. a mound or mass of cloud or fog
12. A group or collection of telephones.

Verb

1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
2. To put into a bank.
3. (slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Verb

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.
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. (obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Verb

To arrange or order in a row.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæŋk/

Etymology

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.