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. |
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Fair-world (n.) State of prosperity. |
Sea bank () The seashore. |
Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea. |
World (n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens |
World (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests |
World (n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns |
World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one |
World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men |
World (n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life |
World (n.) The inhabitants of the earth |
World (n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven |
World (n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity |
World-wide (a.) Extended throughout the world |
world record | the best record in the whole world |
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 |
world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
world affairs international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
the way of the world the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
bank examination | an examination of the affairs and records of a bank by a state or federal bank examiner |
World War I World War Great War First World War War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II World War Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
New World goldfinch goldfinch yellowbird Spinus tristis | American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
New World sparrow | sparrow-like North American finches |
New World flycatcher flycatcher tyrant flycatcher tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World flycatcher true flycatcher flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World chat chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
robin redbreast robin redbreast Old World robin Erithacus rubecola | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast |
Old World warbler true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
New World chat chat | birds having a chattering call |
New World oriole American oriole oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
New World blackbird blackbird | any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black |
Old World oriole oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
Old World jay | a European jay |
New World jay | a North American jay |
bank martin bank swallow sand martin Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
Old World vulture | any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia |
New World vulture cathartid | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
Old World scops owl Otus scops | European scops owl |
coral snake harlequin-snake New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
Old World crayfish ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America |
Old World coot Fulica atra | a coot found in Eurasia |
Old world white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
European rabbit Old World rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
New World mouse | a variety of rodent |
Old World porcupine | terrestrial porcupine |
New World porcupine | arboreal porcupine |
Old World beaver Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
New World beaver Castor canadensis | a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida |
New World tapir Tapirus terrestris | a tapir found in South America and Central America |
Old World buffalo buffalo | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo |
New World least weasel Mustela rixosa | of Canada and northeastern United States |
Old World least weasel Mustela nivalis | of Europe |
anteater New World anteater | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
world human race humanity humankind human beings humans mankind man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth, all the world loves a lover, she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women |