banks

Meaning

1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. A branch office of such an institution.
3. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. Money; profit
7. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
8. To put into a bank.
9. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
10. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
11. 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).
12. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
13. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
14. An incline, a hill.
15. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
16. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
17. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
18. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
19. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
20. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
21. To pass by the banks of.
22. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
23. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
24. 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.
25. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
26. (order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
27. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
28. A bench or seat for judges in court.
29. 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.
30. A kind of table used by printers.
31. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
32. Slang for money

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Sources

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