Bank

(noun.) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); 'the plane went into a steep bank'.

(noun.) a building in which the business of banking transacted; 'the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon'.

(noun.) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; 'he operated a bank of switches'.

(noun.) a long ridge or pile; 'a huge bank of earth'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; 'he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo'.

(noun.) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies).

(verb.) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; 'bank a fire'.

(verb.) enclose with a bank; 'bank roads'.

(verb.) tip laterally; 'the pilot had to bank the aircraft'.

(verb.) be in the banking business.

(verb.) act as the banker in a game or in gambling.

(verb.) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; 'Where do you bank in this town?'.

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• The Worthingdon bank gang, cried the inspector. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When the notes were due, a messenger came around from the bank with the note and a protest pinned to it for $1. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Payment stopped at the Bank? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was twenty minutes to five when we drew up before the bank in Lombard Street. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Having received this order I went to New Orleans to confer with Banks about the proposed movement. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The river was higher than its natural banks from December, 1862, to the following April. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Sherman had written a letter to Banks, proposing a co-operative movement with him against Shreveport, subject to my approval. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They banked it up, and laid green turf over it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He thought she would be sitting in a sofa-corner near the fire, with azaleas banked behind her on a table. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• When not required to blaze it was probably banked down with ashes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I took off the cloth, got out the balls, picked out a cue for Mr. Edison, and when we banked for the first shot I won and started the game. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Of course I was very sorry, said Edison, in speaking of this interview later, for I had banked on that machine bringing me in money. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mr. Lorry was expected back presently from the Banking House. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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