Bank (n.) A bench |
Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level |
Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse |
Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea |
Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft |
Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about |
Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up |
Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley |
Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
Bank (n.) 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. |
Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange |
Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business |
Bank (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. |
Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank |
Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank |
Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency. |
Bank book () A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank. |
Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. |
Bank note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date |
Bank note () A promissory note payable at a bank. |
Bank-sided (a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship |
Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n. |
Colorado group () A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Companies (pl. ) of Company |
Dakota group () A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Group (n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng |
Group (n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic |
Group (n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders. |
Group (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems |
Group (n.) To form a group of |
Harlech group () A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. |
Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. |
Llandeilo group () A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain |
Ludlow group () A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone |
Portage group () A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology. |
Potsdam group () A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology |
Quebec group () The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology. |
Sea bank () The seashore. |
Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea. |
group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
bank shot | a basketball shot that bounces off of the backboard before passing through the hoop |
bank | a flight maneuver, aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning), the plane went into a steep bank |
vertical bank | a bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the vertical |
bank closing | act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure |
bank withdrawal | the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank |
bank run | the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail |
Russian bank crapette | solitaire with two players using separate packs |
group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
group therapy group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
group action | action taken by a group of people |
group participation | participation by all members of a group |
bank examination | an examination of the affairs and records of a bank by a state or federal bank examiner |
bank martin bank swallow sand martin Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
Adapid Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
bank bank building | a building in which the business of banking transacted, the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon |
bottle bank | a place where bottles can be deposited for recycling |
oyster bed oyster bank oyster park | a workplace where oysters are bred and grown |
piggy bank penny bank | a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig) |
savings bank coin bank money box bank | a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home, the coin bank was empty |
snowbank snow bank | a mound or heap of snow |
sperm bank | a depository for storing sperm |
vault bank vault | a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O type O group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
ABO blood group system ABO system ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
group mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
group theory | the branch of mathematics dealing with groups |
Abelian group commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law |
group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
liaison link contact inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
bank identification number BIN ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
bank charter | a charter authorizing the operation of a bank |
bank statement | a periodic statement prepared by a bank for each client, I wish my bank statement arrived earlier in the month |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
biological group | a group of plants or animals |
age group age bracket cohort | a group of people having approximately the same age |
social group | people sharing some social relation |
ethnic group ethnos | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
interest interest group | (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims, the iron interests stepped up production |
kin kin group kinship group kindred clan tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
taxonomic group taxonomic category taxon | animal or plant group having natural relations |
animal group | a group of animals |
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Islamic Group | a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists, emerged during the s mainly in Egyptian jails, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule |
Armed Islamic Group GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |