bank

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.
• noun The offices or building in which such an establishment is located.
• noun The funds of a gambling establishment.
• noun The funds held by a dealer or banker in certain games, especially gambling games.
• noun The reserve pieces, cards, chips, or play money in some games, such as poker, from which the players may draw.
• noun A supply or stock for future or emergency use.
• noun Medicine A supply of human fluids or tissues, such as blood, sperm, or skin, that is stored in a facility for future use.
• noun A place of safekeeping or storage.
• intransitive verb To deposit in a bank.
• intransitive verb To store for future use.
• intransitive verb To transact business with a bank or maintain a bank account.
• intransitive verb To operate a bank.
• noun A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds; a heap.
• noun A steep natural incline.
• noun An artificial embankment.
• noun The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.
• noun A large elevated area of a sea floor.
• noun Games The cushion of a billiard or pool table.
• noun The lateral inward tilting, as of a motor vehicle or an aircraft, in turning or negotiating a curve.
• intransitive verb To border or protect with a ridge or embankment.
• intransitive verb To pile up; amass.
• intransitive verb To cover (a fire), as with ashes or fresh fuel, to ensure continued low burning.
• intransitive verb To construct with a slope rising to the outside edge.
• intransitive verb To tilt (an aircraft) laterally and inwardly in flight.
• intransitive verb To tilt (a motor vehicle) laterally and inwardly when negotiating a curve.
• intransitive verb Games To strike (a billiard ball) so that it rebounds from the cushion of the table.
• intransitive verb Sports To play (a ball or puck) in such a way as to make it glance off a surface, such as a backboard or wall.
• intransitive verb To rise in or take the form of a bank.
• intransitive verb To tilt an aircraft or a motor vehicle laterally when turning.
• noun A set of similar or matched things arranged in a row, especially.
• noun A set of elevators.
• noun A row of keys on a keyboard.
• noun A bench for rowers in a galley.
• noun A row of oars in a galley.
• noun Printing The lines of type under a headline.
• transitive verb To arrange or set up in a row.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To raise a mound or dike about; inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; embank: as, to bank a river.
• To form into a bank or heap; heap or pile: with up: as, to bank up the snow.
• To lie around or encircle, as a bank; constitute a bank around; form a bank or border to; hem in as a bank.
• To pass by the banks or fortifications of.
• To border upon.
• To impinge upon the banking-pins of a watch: said of the escapement.
• noun A money-dealer's table, counter, or shop.