Bank

Bank - Other Definitions

• (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  
  
• (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
  
  
• (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
  
  
• (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
  
  
• (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
  
  
• (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  
  
• (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  
  
• (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
  
  
• (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  
  
• (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
  
  
• (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
  
  
• (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  
  
• (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
  
  
• (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
  
  
• (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
  
  
• (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  
  
• (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
  
  
• (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
  
  
• (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  
  
• (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
  
  
• (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  
  
• (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
  
  
• (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
  
  
• (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
  
  
• bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.
  
  
• bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.
  
  
• book () A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.
  
  
• note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.
  
  
• note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2.
  
  
• note () A promissory note payable at a bank.
  
  
• swallow () See under 1st Bank, n.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Bank