bank vs use

bank

noun
  • Money; profit. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

use

noun
  • Usefulness, benefit. 

  • A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. 

  • Occasion or need to employ; necessity. 

  • The act of using. 

  • A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese. 

  • A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. 

  • The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. 

verb
  • To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) 

  • To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. 

  • To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. 

  • To expend; to consume by employing. 

  • To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) 

  • To employ; to apply; to utilize. 

  • To exploit. 

  • To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. 

  • To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject. 

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