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Sounds | bae'ngk |
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Rhymes | antitank, blank, Bundesbank, and 24 more rhymes in aengk at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities. |
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Examples | "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home" |
Synonyms | depository financial institution, banking concern, banking company |
Member of | banking industry, banking system |
Narrower | credit union; Federal Reserve Bank, reserve bank; agent bank; commercial bank, full service bank; state bank; lead bank, agent bank; member bank; merchant bank, acquirer; acquirer; thrift institution; Home Loan Bank |
Broader | financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation |
Verbs | bank; bank; bank |
Meaning | Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water). |
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Examples | "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents" |
Narrower | riverbank, riverside; waterside |
Broader | slope, incline, side |
Verbs | bank |
Meaning | A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies). |
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Narrower | blood bank; eye bank; food bank; soil bank |
Broader | reserve, backlog, stockpile |
Meaning | A building in which commercial banking is transacted. |
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Examples | "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" |
Synonyms | bank building |
Parts | vault, bank vault |
Broader | depository, deposit, repository |
Verbs | bank; bank; bank |
Meaning | An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers. |
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Examples | "he operated a bank of switches" |
Broader | array |
Meaning | A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home. |
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Examples | "the coin bank was empty" |
Synonyms | savings bank, coin bank, money box |
Narrower | piggy bank, penny bank |
Broader | container |
Meaning | A long ridge or pile. |
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Examples | "a huge bank of earth" |
Narrower | bluff; sandbank |
Broader | ridge |
Meaning | The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games. |
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Examples | "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo" |
Broader | funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource |
Meaning | 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. |
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Synonyms | cant, camber |
Broader | slope, incline, side |
Meaning | A flight maneuver. Aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning). |
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Examples | "the plane went into a steep bank" |
Narrower | vertical bank |
Broader | flight maneuver, airplane maneuver |
Verbs | bank |
Meaning | Tip laterally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "the pilot had to bank the aircraft" |
Broader | tip |
Nouns | bank |
Meaning | Enclose with a bank. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "bank roads" |
Broader | enclose, inclose, shut in |
Nouns | bank |
Meaning | Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "Where do you bank in this town?" |
Broader | transact |
Nouns | bank; bank; banking |
Meaning | Act as the banker in a game or in gambling. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | act |
Similar to | bank |
Meaning | Be in the banking business. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | work, do work |
Similar to | bank |
Nouns | bank; banking; bank; banker |
Meaning | Put into a bank account. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They bank the money |
Synonyms | deposit |
Narrower | redeposit |
Broader | give |
Contrary | withdraw, draw, take out, draw off |
Nouns | bank; bank; banking |
Meaning | Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "bank a fire" |
Broader | cover |
Meaning | Have confidence or faith in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "bank on your good education" |
Synonyms | trust, swear, rely |
Entailed by | confide |
Narrower | credit; lean; count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon |
Broader | believe |
Contrary | distrust, mistrust, suspect |