bank

substantivo

1. 1

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

   Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

2. 2

   A branch office of such an institution.

3. 3

   An underwriter or controller of a card game.

4. 4

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

   Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   calãoMoney; profit.

   Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.

7. 7

   In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

8. 8

   A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

   blood bank; data bank; sperm bank

9. 9

   A device used to store coins or currency.

   If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.

10. 10

    A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.

    All of the drum kits are on bank 1.

verbo

1. 1

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

   He banked with Barclays.

   the sort of face you would happily bank with

2. 2

   To put into a bank (financial institution).

   I’m going to bank the money.

3. 3

   To store in a bank (storage).

   the procurement, banking or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue

4. 4

   calãoTo conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

   Johnny banked some coke for me.

5. 5

   To provide banking services to.

   They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.

substantivo

1. 1

   An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

   Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

   On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

   Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

2. 2

   An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth

   the banks of Newfoundland

3. 3

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

4. 4

   The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

5. 5

   An incline, a hill.

   This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.

   It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.

6. 6

   A mass of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

7. 7

   The face of the coal at which miners are working.

8. 8

   A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

9. 9

   The ground at the top of a shaft.

   Ores are brought to bank.

verbo

1. 1

   To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

2. 2

   To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

3. 3

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

   to bank sand

4. 4

   To form a bank; to gather in masses.

   […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

   Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

7. 7

   obsoletoTo pass by the banks of.

   Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?

8. 8

   To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

   Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.

   [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.

   Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.

substantivo

1. 1

   A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

   a bank of switches

   a bank of pay phones

   Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

verbo

1. 1

   To arrange or order in a row.

substantivo

1. 1

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

   Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

2. 2

   A bench or seat for judges in court.

3. 3

   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

4. 4

   arcaicoA kind of table used by printers.

5. 5

   A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Formas

plural

banks

pretérito

banked

particípio passado

banked

gerúndio

banking

3.ª pessoa do singular

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