(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
(countable) A branch office of such an institution.
(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
(countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
(countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
(gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
(nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
(rail transport) An incline, a hill.
(slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
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
verb
(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
(rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
(transitive) To put into a bank.
(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
(transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
(transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
(transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
knab
knab
verb
(colloquial) To nab or steal.
(obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
nabk
nabk
noun
Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
