Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
bank (noun)1.
a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level as
a) a piled-up mass of cloud or fog
b) an undersea elevation rising especially from the continental shelf
2.
the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea or forming the edge of a cut or hollow
3.
a) a steep slope (as of a hill)
b) the lateral inward tilt of a surface along a curve or of a vehicle (as an airplane) when turning
4.
a protective or cushioning rim or piece
transitive verb
1.
a) to raise a bank about
b) to cover (as a fire) with fresh fuel and adjust the draft of air so as to keep in an inactive state
c) to build (a curve) with the roadbed or track inclined laterally upward from the inside edge
2.
to heap or pile in a bank
3.
a) to drive (a ball in billiards) into a cushion
b) to bounce (a ball or shot) off a surface (as a backboard) into or toward a goal - bank in a rebound
4.
intransitive verb
to form or group in a tier
1.
to rise in or form a bank - often used with up clouds would bank up about midday, and showers fall William Beebe
2.
a) to incline an airplane laterally
b) (1) to incline laterally
(2) to follow a curve or incline - skiers banking around the turn
1.
a) an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds
b) obsolete the table, counter, or place of business of a money changer
2.
a person conducting a gambling house or game , specifically - dealer
3.
a supply of something held in reserve as
a) the fund of supplies (as money, chips, or pieces) held by the or dealer for use in a game - banker
b) a fund of pieces belonging to a game (as dominoes) from which the players draw
4.
a place where something is held available - memory banks , especially a depot for the collection and storage of a biological product - a blood bank
intransitive verb
1.
to manage a bank
2.
transitive verb
to deposit money or have an account in a bank to deposit or store in a bank
1.
a group or series of objects arranged together in a row or a tier as
a) a set of elevators
b) a row or tier of telephones
2.
one of the horizontal and usually secondary or lower divisions of a headline
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
bank (noun)1.
a number of things considered as a unit
SYNONYMS:
array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suiteRELATED WORDS:
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; cycle, run, series, suitNEAR ANTONYMS:
entity, item, single, unit2.
a series of people or things arranged side by side
SYNONYMS:
bank, rankRELATED WORDS:
chain, column, cue, file, line, procession, queue, range, string, train; echelon, tier; array, concatenation, sequencea pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)
SYNONYMS:
bar, drift, moundRELATED WORDS:
snowbank, snowdrift; embankment, sandbar; heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft1.
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
SYNONYMS:
bank, hillRELATED WORDS:
heap, pile, pyramid, stack; embank; bunch, bundle, clump, lump, mass, wad; accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, conglomerate, gather, group2.
to put in an account
SYNONYMS:
bankRELATED WORDS:
cache, hoard, lay away, reserve, salt away, save, squirrel (away), stash, store, stow; investNEAR ANTONYMS:
remove, take out; disburse, expend, give, lay out, pay, spend