| 单词 | bank |
| 释义 | Word Frequency bank 1(bæŋk) noun 1. an institution offering certain financial services, such as the safekeeping of money, conversion of domestic into and from foreign currencies, lending of money at interest, and acceptance of bills of exchange 2. the building used by such an institution 3. a small container used at home for keeping money 4. the funds held by a gaming house or a banker or dealer in some gambling games 5. (in various games) a. the stock, as of money, pieces, tokens, etc, on which players may draw b. the player holding this stock 6. any supply, store, or reserve, for future use a data bank a blood bank verb 7. (transitive) to deposit (cash, cheques, etc) in a bank 8. (intransitive) to transact business with a bank 9. (intransitive) to engage in the business of banking 10. (intransitive) to hold the bank in some gambling games Word origin C15: probably from Italian banca bench, moneychanger's table, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German banc benchWord Frequency bank 2(bæŋk) noun 1. a long raised mass, esp of earth; mound; ridge 2. a slope, as of a hill 3. the sloping side of any hollow in the ground, esp when bordering a river the left bank of a river is on a spectator's left looking downstream 4. a. an elevated section, rising to near the surface, of the bed of a sea, lake, or river b. (in combination) sandbank mudbank 5. a. the area around the mouth of the shaft of a mine b. the face of a body of ore 6. the lateral inclination of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis during a turn 7. Also called: banking, camber, cant, superelevation a bend on a road or on a railway, athletics, cycling, or other track having the outside built higher than the inside in order to reducethe effects of centrifugal force on vehicles, runners, etc, rounding it at speed and in some cases to facilitate drainage 8. the cushion of a billiard table verb 9. (when tr, often foll by up) to form into a bank or mound 10. (transitive) to border or enclose (a road, etc) with a bank 11. (transitive; sometimes foll by up) to cover (a fire) with ashes, fresh fuel, etc, so that it will burn slowly 12. to cause (an aircraft) to tip laterally about its longitudinal axis or (of an aircraft) to tip in this way, espwhile turning 13. to travel round a bank, esp at high speed 14. (transitive) billiards to drive (a ball) into the cushion Word origin C12: of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Icelandic bakki hill, Old Danish banke, Swedish backeWord Frequency bank 3(bæŋk) noun 1. an arrangement of objects, esp similar objects, in a row or in tiers a bank of dials 2. a. a tier of oars in a galley b. a bench for the rowers in a galley 3. a grade of lightweight writing and printing paper used for airmail letters, etc 4. telephony (in automatic switching) an assembly of fixed electrical contacts forming a rigid unit in a selector or similar device verb 5. (transitive) to arrange in a bank Word origin C17: from Old French banc bench, of Germanic origin; see bank1 |
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