I. FINANCE AND STORAGE
/bæŋk/
( banks, banking, banked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A bank is an institution where people or businesses can keep their money.
Which bank offers you the service that best suits your financial needs?...
I had £10,000 in the bank.
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2.
A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
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3.
If you bank money, you pay it into a bank.
Once you have registered your particulars with an agency and it has banked your cheque, the process begins.
VERB : V n
4.
If you bank with a particular bank, you have an account with that bank.
My husband has banked with the Co-op since before the war.
VERB : V with n
5.
You use bank to refer to a store of something. For example, a blood bank is a store of blood that is kept ready for use.
...Britain’s National Police Computer, one of the largest data banks in the world.
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II. AREAS AND MASSES
/bæŋk/
( banks)
1.
The banks of a river, canal, or lake are the raised areas of ground along its edge.
...30 miles of new developments along both banks of the Thames.
...an old warehouse on the banks of a canal.
= side
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2.
A bank of ground is a raised area of it with a flat top and one or two sloping sides.
...resting indolently upon a grassy bank.
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3.
A bank of something is a long high mass of it.
On their journey south they hit a bank of fog off the north-east coast of Scotland.
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4.
A bank of things, especially machines, switches, or dials, is a row of them, or a series of rows.
The typical laborer now sits in front of a bank of dials.
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5.
see also banked
III. OTHER VERB USES
/bæŋk/
( banks, banking, banked)
When an aircraft banks , one of its wings rises higher than the other, usually when it is changing direction.
A plane took off and banked above the highway in front of him.
VERB : V