A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
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.
Money; profit.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
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
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
An incline, a hill.
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
A branch office of such an institution.
A device used to store coins or currency.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
An underwriter or controller of a card game.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
To put into a bank.
To arrange or order in a row.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
An excavation pit or trench.
An undesirable place to live or visit.
A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
A container or receptacle.
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
Sex, or a sex partner.
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
A chordless cycle in a graph.
A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
To go into a hole.
To make holes in (an object or surface).
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
To destroy.