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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

A branch office of such an institution.

An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

Example: He banked with Barclays.

To put into a bank.

Example: I'm going to bank the money.

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Example: Johnny banked some coke for me.

An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

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).

Example: the banks of Newfoundland

A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

Example: to bank sand

To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

Example: a bank of pay phones

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

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.

A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

A bench or seat for judges in court.

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.

A kind of table used by printers.