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Noun bank has 10 senses
- depository financial institution, bank, banking concern, banking company - a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
--1 is a kind of botanist, phytologist, plant scientist; financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation; botanist, phytologist, plant scientist; financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation
--1 is a member of banking industry, banking system
--1 has particulars:
- bank - sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
--2 is a kind of slope, incline, side; slope, incline, side
--2 has particulars: riverbank, riverside; waterside
- bank - a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
--3 is a kind of reserve, backlog, stockpile; reserve, backlog, stockpile
--3 has particulars: blood bank; eye bank; food bank; soil bank
- bank, bank building - a building in which commercial banking is transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
--4 is a kind of depository, deposit, repository; depository, deposit, repository
--4 has parts: vault, bank vault
- bank - an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
--5 is a kind of array; array
- savings bank, coin bank, money box, bank - a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
--6 is a kind of container; container
--6 has particulars: piggy bank, penny bank
- bank - a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
--7 is a kind of ridge; ridge
--7 has particulars: bluff; sandbank
- bank - the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
--8 is a kind of funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource; funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
- bank, cant, camber - a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
--9 is a kind of slope, incline, side; slope, incline, side
- bank - a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"
--10 is a kind of flight maneuver, airplane maneuver; flight maneuver, airplane maneuver
--10 has particulars: vertical bank
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