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Meaning of banks

noun

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.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

verb

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.

noun

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.
An incline, a hill.

verb

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.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

noun

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.

verb

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

Source: Free Dictionary API.

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