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.
A mine where the material above the ore is removed (stripped) to expose it for removal and use.