(bangk) noun
1. Any moundlike formation or mass; ridge.
2. A steep acclivity; rising ground.
3. The slope of land at the edge of a watercourse or of any cut or channel: often in the plural.
4. A raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean: the Newfoundland banks; also a shallow; sandbar; shoal.
5. The cushion of a billiard table.
6. Aeron. The side-wise inclination of an airplane in making a turn.
7. The ground at the top of the shaft of a mine.
—v.t.
1. To enclose, cover, or protect by a bank, dike, or border; embank.
2. To heap up into a bank or mound.
3. To give an upward lateral slope to, as the curve of a road.
4. To incline (an airplane) laterally.
5. In billiards and pool, to cause (a ball) to rebound at an angle from a cushion; also, to pocket (a ball) in this manner.
—v.i.
6. To form or lie in banks.
7. To incline an airplane laterally.
—to bank (or bank up) a fire To cover a fire with ashes or earth so as to keep it alive but burning low. [ME banke, ult. <Gmc. Akin to BENCH.] Synonyms (noun): beach, border, bound, brim, brink, coast, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore, strand. Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a watercourse. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, though there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the brink of a precipice, the brink of ruin.

(bangk) noun
1. An institution for lending, borrowing, exchanging, issuing, or caring for money.
2. An office or building used for banking purposes.
3. The funds of a gaming establishment or the fund held by the dealer or banker in some gambling games.
4. In some games, reserve piece from which the players are permitted to draw, as in dominoes.
5. A store or reserve supply of anything needed for future use or emergency: a blood bank.
6. Any place of storage.
7. Obs. A money-changer's table.
—v.t.
1. To deposit in a bank.
2. To back financially or furnish funds for, as a business enterprise.
—v.i.
3. To do business as or with a bank or banker.
4. In gambling, to kp the bank at a gambling table.
5. To have faith in; rely or count: with on. [<F banque <Ital, banca money-changer's table, ult. <Gmc.]

(bangk) noun
1. A set of like articles grouped together in a line.
2. A rowers' bench in a galley; a thwart.
3. A horizontal rank of keys in a piano or organ.
4. In journalism, lines under a headline; deck.
5. Printing a The heavy sloping table on which type galleys or dead type are held. b A pressman's table for holding sheets. c The track along which the carriage of a printing press moves.
—v.t. To bring together in a bank, as transformers. [<OF banc <LL bancus bench, ult. <Gmc. Akin to BENCH.]