Bank

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 safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
 * 5) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
 * 6)  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).
 * 7) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
 * 8)  The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
 * 9)  An incline, a hill.
 * 10) A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
 * 11) A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Verb

 * 1)  To deal with a bank or financial institution.
 * 2)  To put into a bank.
 * 3)  To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
 * 4)  To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
 * 5)  To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
 * 6)  To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
 * 7)  To arrange or order in a row.

Adjectives for Bank

 * (finance) leading; unthrifty; financial; manbadly; depleted; impoverished aged; safe; insured; shiftless;
 * (land) naked; oozy; perpendicular; shagged; grassy; wooded; precipitous; steep; slippery; tottering; glorious; flowering; rocky; river; mud; sloping; mossy; willow; sheltering; forested; shelving; placid; tossing; pineclad; green-wooded; rugged; dirt; over-hanging; miry; gentle; weedy; curving; rain-gullied; clay; eroding; tree-lined; heavily-wooded; glistening; caving; mosquito-infested; rabbit-riddled; willow-tufted; low-lying; unlimited; enormous; smothering; noisy; frequented; fringed; deep; impassable; unmolested; storm-shaken; weary; embroidered; permanent; high; bramblecovered; primrose; chalk; starred; settled; craggy; stifled; ash; wasted; picturesque; marshy; swampy; rugged; herbless; up¬land; tawny; bounding; beauteous; verdant; calm; rounding; porcelain; encompassing; lonesome; craggy; fraudulent; puddled; never-withering; glittering; blossom-laden.

Verbs for Bank

 * (finance) shiftless; leading; unthrifty; financial; manbadly; depleted; impoverished aged; safe; insured.borrow from—; charter—; conduct—; consult—; deal with—; deposit in—; draw upon—; equip—; loot—; patronize—; plunder—; run on—; wreck—; —acquires; — advances; —advises; —amasses; —appropriates; —authorizes; —branches; —cashes;—charges; —collapses; —consolidates; — discounts; —dominates; —drafts; —expands; —finances; —flourishes; —guards;—handles; —incorporates; —insures; —invests; —issues; —loans; —manages; — mortgages; —negotiates; —operates; —profits; —rates; —regulates; —sanctions; — serves; —transacts.
 * (land) bask on—; bound by —s; couch on—; fortify—s; overflow —s; scramble up—; shadow—; support—; swell over—; teeter on —; —encircles; — rise.

Thesaurus
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game reserve, gamut, garrison, gate, gentle slope, glacis, glory hole, go downhill, go uphill, godown, gold depository, gold mine, gradation, grade, gradient, gravity dam, groin, hand, handedness, hanging buttress, hanging gardens, haunch, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, helicline, hem, hill, hillside, hip, hoard, hock shop, hold, hum, hutch, hydraulic-fill dam, ignite, inclination, incline, inclined plane, inflame, intend, invest, investment bank, iron curtain, ironbound coast, jackpot, jam, jetty, jowl, jutty, keel, kindle, kitty, labellum, labium, labrum, laterality, launching ramp, lay aside, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lean, leaping weir, ledge, lending institution, levee, library, lido, light, light up, limb, limbus, line, line up, lineage, lip, list, littoral, locker, lodge, logjam, loop, loophole, lot, lumber room, lumberyard, lunette, machicolation, magasin, magazine, man, man the garrison, mantelet, many-sidedness, marge, margin, mass, member bank, merlon, milldam, mine, moat, mole, molehill, money chest, moneyed corporation, monotone, mortgage company, mound, mountain, mow, multilaterality, museum, mutual savings bank, national bank, national forest, national park, nexus, nonmember bank, open cut, opencast, outwork, pack away, palisade, paradise, parados, parapet, park, pawnbroker, pawnbrokery, pawnshop, pendulum, penny bank, periodicity, pier, pier buttress, piggy bank, pile, pile up, pit, pitch, plage, plan, planking, playa, plenum, plow, pool, pork barrel, porpoise, portcullis, postern gate, pot, powder train, preserve, profile, progression, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pull out, pull up, push down, put away, pyramid, quarry, quarter, queue, rack, ragged edge, rake, ramp, rampart, range, rank, ravelin, reckon on, recurrence, redan, redoubt, reef, rekindle, relight, relume, repertory, reposit, repository, reservation, reserve, reserve bank, reservoir, retaining wall, reticulation, retreat, rick, rim, rise, riverside, riviera, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rockbound coast, roll, rotation, round, routine, row, run, safe, safe-deposit box, sally port, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, sandbank, sandbar, sands, save, savings bank, scale, scarp, sconce, sea line, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, seawall, selvage, sequence, series, set aside, set fire to, set on fire, shaft, shallow, shallows, shelf, shelve, shelving beach, shingle, shoal, shoal water, shore, shoreline, shoulder, shutter dam, side, sideline, sideslip, siding, sidle, single file, skid, skirt, slant, slope, snowbank, snowdrift, spectrum, spin, spiral, squirrel away, stack, stack room, stack up, stake, stakes, stash, state bank, state forest, steep slope, stiff climb, stir the fire, stock room, stockade, stoke, stoke the fire, stone wall, storage, store, store away, storehouse, storeroom, stow, stow away, stow down, strand, strike a light, string, string out, strong room, strongbox, stunt, submerged coast, subtreasury, succession, supply base, supply depot, swag, swath, sway, talus, tank, temple, tenaille, thread, tidal flats, tidewater, tier, tiger, till, tilt, tip, torch, touch off, train, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, trust company, trust in, undulate, unilaterality, uprise, vallation, vallum, vat, vault, venture, verge, wager, wall, warehouse, waterfront, waterside, weir, wetlands, wicket dam, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, windrow, wine cellar, work, workings, yaw

Related terms

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