The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
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 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.
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.
Generally a screen or embankment to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack, from bomb splinters from behind, from enemy fire from a commanding height, or fire from flanking positions. In common English usage since World War II, the term "parados", particularly in trench warfare, has largely been discarded in favour of "rear parapet", which, etymologically speaking, is a contradiction in terms. In some contexts the term "rear traverse" is preferred, but no usage is exclusive.
In trench warfare parados referred to a bank of earth or similar material behind the rear of the trench, opposite the parapet, affording protection from explosions and fragments when shells or bombs overshot the trench.
In fortifications that were enfiladed by enemy in positions commanding the fort, an internal parados could defilade the enemy, serving as physical protection and blindage. Usages of the term have varied inconsistently according to times and sources. Some sources use parados as a synonym for a traverse; some other sources represent parados as a special class of traverse and not necessarily at the back of any particular position.