bank
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[edit] English
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Middle English from Middle French banque from Italian banca "counter, moneychanger's table", of Germanic origin, from Old High German bank, banch, banc "counter, bench" from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“‘bench, counter’”)
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bank (plural banks)
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- A branch office of such an institution
- An underwriter or controller of a card game, also banque.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- An edge of a river or lake
- A slope of earth etc.; an embankment
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to bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
- He banked with Barclays.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- I'm going to bank the money.
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Middle English banke from Old English hōbanca "couch" and Old English banc "bank, hillock, embankment" from Proto-Germanic *bankōn-. Akin to Old Norse bakki "elevation, hill"
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bank (plural banks)
- An edge of river or other watercourse.
- (nautical) 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).
- An embankment
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (rail transport) an incline, a hill
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- bank up
- clay-bank
- cloud bank
- embank
- embankment
- land bank
- Left Bank
- left-bank
- oyster bank
- right-bank
- river bank
- sand bank
- sea bank
- West Bank
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to bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (aviation, intransitive) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
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Middle English bank, banke from Old French banc "bench", of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc "bench"
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bank (plural banks)
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
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to bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
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[edit] Crimean Tatar
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bank
- bank (financial institution)
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| nominative | bank |
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| genitive | banknıñ |
| dative | bankqa |
| accusative | banknı |
| locative | bankta |
| ablative | banktan |
[edit] Danish
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From French banque, from Italian banco (“‘bench’”).
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bank c. (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)
- bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
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bank c.
- only used in certain expressions
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bank n. (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)
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| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | bank | banket | bank | bankene |
| genitive | banks | bankets | banks | bankenes |
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bank
- Imperative of banke.
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bank m. and f. (plural banken, diminutive bankje, diminutive plural bankjes)
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bank (plural bankok)
- bank (financial institution)
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bank
- the bank of a river or lake
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- IPA: /bɑŋk/
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bank m. (definite singular banken; indefinite plural banker; definite plural bankene)
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- IPA: [bãŋk]
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bank m. (plural banki)
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| Singular | Plural | |
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| Nominative | bank | banki |
| Genitive | banku | banków |
| Dative | bankowi | bankom |
| Accusative | bank | banki |
| Instrumental | bankiem | bankami |
| Locative | banku | bankach |
| Vocative | banku | banki |
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| Inflection for bank | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | bank | banken | banker | bankerna |
| Possessive form | banks | bankens | bankers | bankernas |
bank c.
- bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
- bank (place of storage)
- bank (of a river of lake)
- sandbank
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bank
- bank (financial institution)