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Banking
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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noun
1.
a long pile or heap; mass: a bank of earth; a bank of clouds.
2.
a slope or acclivity.
3.
Physical Geography. the slope immediately bordering a stream course along which the water normally runs.
4.
a broad elevation of the sea floor around which the water is relatively shallow but not a hazard to surface navigation.
5.
EXPANDCoal Mining. the surface around the mouth of a shaft.
6.
Also called cant, superelevation. the inclination of the bed of a banked road or railroad.
7.
Aeronautics. the lateral inclination of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
8.
COLLAPSEBilliards, Pool. the cushion of the table.
verb (used with object)
9.
to border with or like a bank; embank: banking the river with sandbags at flood stage.
10.
to form into a bank or heap (usually followed by up): to bank up the snow.
11.
to build (a road or railroad track) with an upward slope from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
12.
Aeronautics. to tip or incline (an airplane) laterally.
13.
EXPANDBilliards, Pool.
a.
to drive (a ball) to the cushion.
b.
to pocket (the object ball) by driving it against the bank.
14.
COLLAPSEto cover (a fire) with ashes or fuel to make it burn long and slowly.
verb (used without object)
15.
to build up in or form banks, as clouds or snow.
16.
Aeronautics. to tip or incline an airplane laterally.
17.
Horology. (of a lever or balance) to be halted at either end of its oscillation by striking a pin or the like.
18.
(of a road or railroad track) to slope upward from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
noun
1.
an institution for receiving, lending, exchanging, and safeguarding money and, in some cases, issuing notes and transacting other financial business.
2.
the office or quarters of such an institution.
3.
Games.
a.
the stock or fund of pieces from which the players draw.
b.
the fund of the manager or the dealer.
4.
a special storage place: a blood bank; a sperm bank.
5.
EXPANDa store or reserve.
6.
COLLAPSEObsolete.
a.
a sum of money, especially as a fund for use in business.
b.
a moneychanger's table, counter, or shop.
verb (used without object)
7.
to keep money in or have an account with a bank: Do you bank at the Village Savings Bank?
8.
to exercise the functions of a bank or banker.
9.
Games. to hold the bank.
verb (used with object)
Verb phrase10.
to deposit in a bank: to bank one's paycheck.
11.
bank on/upon, to count on; depend on: You can bank on him to hand you a reasonable bill for his services.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French banque < Italian banca table, counter, moneychanger's table < Old High German bank bench
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French banque < Italian banca table, counter, moneychanger's table < Old High German bank bench
noun
1.
an arrangement of objects in a line or in tiers: a bank of seats; a bank of lights.
2.
Music. a row of keys on an organ.
3.
a row of elevator cars, as in a hotel or high-rise office building.
4.
a bench for rowers in a galley.
5.
EXPANDa row or tier of oars.
6.
the group of rowers occupying one bench or rowing one oar.
7.
8.
Also called deck. Journalism. a part of a headline containing one or more lines of type, especially a part that appears below the main part.
9.
COLLAPSEElectricity. a number of similar devices connected to act together: a bank of transformers; a bank of resistors.
verb (used with object)
10.
to arrange in a bank: to bank the seats; to bank the lights.
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Link To banking
| banking2 (ˈbæŋkɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an embankment of a river |
| 2. | another word for bank |
| 3. | fishing on a sea bank, esp off the coast of Newfoundland |
| 4. | the manoeuvre causing an aircraft to bank |
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Word Origin & History
bank
"earthen incline, edge of a river," c.1200, probably in O.E. but not attested in surviving documents, from a Scandinavian source such as O.N. banki, O.Dan. banke "sandbank," from P.Gmc. *bangkon "slope," cognate with *bankiz "shelf."
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Slang Dictionary
bank definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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