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Noun bank has 10 senses

depository financial institution, bank, banking concern, banking company - 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"
--₁ is a kind of financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation
--₁ is a member of banking industry, banking system
--₁ has particulars:

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

Derived forms: verb bank₃, verb bank₅, verb bank₆

bank - 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"
--₂ is a kind of slope, incline, side
--₂ has particulars: riverbank, riverside; waterside
Derived form: verb bank₂
bank - a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
--₃ is a kind of reserve, backlog, stockpile
--₃ has particulars: blood bank; eye bank; food bank; soil bank
bank, bank building - a building in which commercial banking is transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
--₄ is a kind of depository, deposit, repository
--₄ has parts: vault, bank vault
Derived forms: verb bank₃, verb bank₅, verb bank₆
bank - an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
--₅ is a kind of array
savings bank, coin bank, money box, bank - a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
--₆ is a kind of container
--₆ has particulars: piggy bank, penny bank
bank - a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
--₇ is a kind of ridge
--₇ has particulars: bluff; sandbank
bank - the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
--₈ is a kind of funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
bank, cant, camber - 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
--₉ is a kind of slope, incline, side
bank - a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"
--₁₀ is a kind of flight maneuver, airplane maneuver
--₁₀ has particulars: vertical bank
Derived form: verb bank₁

Verb bank has 8 senses

bank - tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
--₁ is one way to tip

Derived form: noun bank₁₀
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
bank - enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
--₂ is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in

Derived form: noun bank₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
bank - do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"
--₃ is one way to transact

Derived forms: noun bank₁, noun bank₄, noun banking₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
bank - act as the banker in a game or in gambling
--₄ is one way to act
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
bank - be in the banking business
--₅ is one way to work, do work

Derived forms: noun banker₁, noun bank₁, noun bank₄, noun banking₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
deposit, bank - put into a bank account; "She deposites her paycheck every month"
--₆ is one way to give

Derived forms: noun bank₁, noun bank₄, noun banking₂
Sample sentence:
They bank the money
bank - cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"
--₇ is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
trust, swear, rely, bank - have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
--₈ is one way to believe
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP