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. |
Barker's mill
() A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
Craze-mill
(n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill
(n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Double-bank
(v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Mill
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill
(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action |
Mill
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
Mill
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill
(n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head |
| bank shot | a basketball shot that bounces off of the backboard before passing through the hoop |
wheeling
rolling | propelling something on wheels |
| 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 |
grind
mill
pulverization
pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
| 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 |
| rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
| 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 |
gizzard
ventriculus
gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
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 |
| cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill
coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
| cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
mill
grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
millwheel
mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
oyster bed
oyster bank
oyster park | a workplace where oysters are bred and grown |
| paper mill | a mill where paper is manufactured |
pepper mill
pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
piggy bank
penny bank | a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig) |
public house
pub
saloon pothouse
gin mill
taphouse | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms, often provides light meals |
quartz battery
quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
| rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |
| rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
| rolling pin | utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end, used to roll out dough |
| rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
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 |
stamp mill
stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| textile mill | a factory for making textiles |
| vault bank vault | a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables |
| water mill | a mill powered by a water wheel |
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 |
roller
roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
peal
pealing
roll
rolling | a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) |
| bank holding company | a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
| central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
| European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |
Federal Reserve Bank
reserve bank | one of regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region |