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profit","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"blood bank; sperm bank; data bank"},{"definition":"A device used to store coins or currency.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank."}],"synonyms":["banker"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He banked with Barclays."},{"definition":"To put into a bank.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I'm going to bank the money."},{"definition":"To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Johnny banked some coke for me."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"the banks of Newfoundland"},{"definition":"A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An incline, a hill.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front."},{"definition":"The face of the coal at which miners are working.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The ground at the top of a shaft.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Ores are brought to bank."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To cause (an aircraft) to bank.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"to bank sand"},{"definition":"To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To pass by the banks of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"a bank of pay phones"},{"definition":"A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["block","grid","line","panel","rank","tier"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A bench or seat for judges in court.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A kind of table used by printers.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Slang for money","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bank","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banks"]}]