bank vs ramp

bank

noun
  • An incline, a hill. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. 

  • 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. 

ramp

noun
  • An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. 

  • A scale of values. 

  • An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. 

  • A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp. 

  • A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron). 

  • A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell. 

  • A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport. 

  • An act of violent robbery. 

  • An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek. 

  • A worthless person. 

  • A speed bump. 

  • A promiscuous man or woman. 

  • A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers. 

  • A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe. 

verb
  • To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate. 

  • To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell. 

  • To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate. 

  • To behave violently; to rage. 

  • To rob violently. 

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