Main entry: bank
Definition: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
Usage: the plane went into a steep bank
Main entry: bank, bank building
Definition: a building in which the business of banking transacted
Usage: the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon
Main entry: savings bank, bank, money box, coin bank
Definition: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
Usage: the coin bank was empty
Main entry: bank, banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution
Definition: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
Usage: he cashed a check at the bank; that bank holds the mortgage on my home
Main entry: bank
Definition: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
Usage: he operated a bank of switches
Main entry: bank
Definition: a long ridge or pile
Usage: a huge bank of earth
Main entry: bank
Definition: sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
Usage: they pulled the canoe up on the bank; he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents
Main entry: bank, camber, cant
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
Main entry: bank
Definition: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
Usage: he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo
Main entry: bank
Definition: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
Main entry: swear, trust, rely, bank
Definition: have confidence or faith in
Usage: We can trust in God; Rely on your friends; bank on your good education; I swear by my grandmother's recipes
Main entry: bank
Definition: cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
Usage: bank a fire
Main entry: bank
Definition: enclose with a bank
Usage: bank roads
Main entry: bank
Definition: tip laterally
Usage: the pilot had to bank the aircraft
Definition: put into a bank account
Usage: She deposits her paycheck every month
Main entry: bank
Definition: be in the banking business
Main entry: bank
Definition: act as the banker in a game or in gambling
Main entry: bank
Definition: do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
Usage: Where do you bank in this town?