bank vs mine

bank

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

mine

noun
  • An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. 

  • Any source of wealth or resources. 

  • A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. 

  • A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. 

  • The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. 

  • A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. 

  • A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. 

pron
  • Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. 

  • Used predicatively. 

  • Used substantively, with an implied noun. 

  • Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. 

verb
  • To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). 

  • To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine. 

  • To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. 

  • To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. 

  • To pick one's nose. 

  • To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). 

  • To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. 

  • To dig into, for ore or metal. 

  • To remove (rock or ore) from the ground. 

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