Noun Definition

bank

1.Definition: a building in which the business of banking transacted

"The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"

Category: Objects

2.Definition: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home

"The coin bank was empty"

Category: Objects

3.Definition: 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"

Category: General

4.Definition: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)

"The plane went into a steep bank"

Category: General

5.Definition: a long ridge or pile

"A huge bank of earth"

Category: Objects

6.Definition: 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

Related Noun(s):camber, cant

Category: Objects

7.Definition: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)

Category: General

8.Definition: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers

"He operated a bank of switches"

Category: General

9.Definition: 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"

Category: Objects

10.Definition: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games

"He tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"

Category: General