Dictionary Entry
bank
bank is a 4-letter English word with 42 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 42 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
- 2noun
A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
- 3noun
A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
- 4noun
The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
- 5noun
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
- 6noun
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- 7noun
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- 8noun
The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
- 9transitive verb
To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- 10transitive verb
To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
- 11transitive verb
To pass by the banks of.
- 12noun
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- 13noun
The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
- 14noun
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
- 15noun
A sort of table used by printers.
- 16noun
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- 17noun
An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
- 18noun
The building or office used for banking purposes.
- 19noun
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- 20noun
The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
- 21noun
In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- 22transitive verb
To deposit in a bank.
- 23intransitive verb
To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
- 24intransitive verb
To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
- 25noun
a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
"the plane went into a steep bank"
- 26noun
a building in which the business of banking transacted
"the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
- 27noun
a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
"the coin bank was empty"
- 28noun
a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
"he cashed a check at the bank"
"that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
- 29noun
an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
"he operated a bank of switches"
- 30noun
a long ridge or pile
"a huge bank of earth"
- 31noun
sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
"they pulled the canoe up on the bank"
"he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
- 32noun
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
- 33noun
the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
"he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
- 34noun
a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- 35verb
have confidence or faith in
"We can trust in God"
"Rely on your friends"
- 36verb
cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
"bank a fire"
- 37verb
enclose with a bank
"bank roads"
- 38verb
tip laterally
"the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
- 39verb
put into a bank account
"She deposits her paycheck every month"
Synonyms
- 40verb
be in the banking business
- 41verb
act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- 42verb
do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
"Where do you bank in this town?"
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