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noun baŋkbæŋk 1The land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake. willows lined the bank of the stream Example sentencesExamples - He and a girlfriend moved into an old hunting shack on the banks of Lake Superior, about eight miles from the nearest town.
- Massive housing projects are springing up on the banks of lakes.
- The river overflows its banks and floods the land with fresh water and deposits a thick layer of rich alluvial soil.
- When we finally arrived at the rather pretty camp-site on the banks of a blue lake, we had been travelling for more than 24 hours.
- Welcome to the sunny banks of Lake Victoria in Tanzania - one of the world's largest lakes and, according to some, the cradle of humankind.
- Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey.
- Wooden lodges and log cabins are usually found on the banks of a lake or river.
- Winter Wrens breed in moist coniferous forests and nest in dense brush especially along stream banks.
- These figures for the most part do not include freshwater wetlands along the shores of lakes, banks of rivers, in estuaries and along the marine coasts.
- Willow will be planted to shore up the banks of the River Devon and wetland created to soak up water on neighbouring hilltops.
- Lighting effects have been put up in trees and rafts lie alongside the banks of the lake suggesting that fireworks could be launched from the water's surface.
- The Glasgow plan aims to quicken the pace of development at Atlantic Quay and surrounding land on the north bank of the river.
- They were standing on the banks of the lake in the forest, watching the sunlight glisten off its silver surface.
- Beyond that, a narrower but more fertile inner plain slopes down to the bank of the Delaware River.
- Russian villages were typically situated near the bank of a lake, river, or stream.
- All these cities are built alongside rivers whose banks provide major recreational spaces.
- We chugged along the river, its banks lined with shabby wooden huts.
- Each year, hundreds of thousands of spectators line the banks of the River Thames to support the two crews.
- Santo said the flooding was triggered by torrential rains over the last three days, which caused several rivers to overflow their banks.
- The poplar and willow trees line the opposite bank of the River Kennet from the Town Mill homes.
Synonyms edge, side, embankment, levee, border, verge, boundary, margin, rim, fringe, fringes, flank, brink, perimeter, circumference, extremity, periphery, limit, outer limit, limits, bound, bounds literary marge, bourn, skirt 2A long, high mass or mound of a particular substance. Example sentencesExamples - At the top I encountered my first daffodils on the grassy bank in front of a house.
- I stood up and Jordan and I walked over to the grassy bank by the playground.
- The grassy banks, constructed about 150 years ago, have never been treated with pesticides or fertilisers.
- As we begin our descent I am able to catch a glimpse of a magnificent peak penetrating the cloud bank near Portland.
- If you hang them below the bumper, they can easily get knocked out of adjustment or even broken by curbs or snow banks.
- I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop.
- She started falling sideways and ended up flat on her back in a snow bank!
- Turn left and cross two bridges before taking a path to the right, along the top of a grassy bank.
- The main runway will be put back to arable land and a bank of trees will be planted on the outside.
- The shop occupies a prominent and elevated position on a grassy bank next to the Market Cross.
- Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
- It was an especially severe New England winter; snow banks were our foremost obstacles.
- Behind, a saffron-tinged bank of clouds rises above a shadowy fringe of trees.
- On either side, cliffs tower upwards with dark cloud banks masking their peaks; small waterfalls cascade down the abyss and onto the windscreen.
- The snow banks are enormous because they keep stacking it and stacking it all winter.
- Hedgerows with grassy banks can shelter primroses, orchids and other wildflowers.
- Dead ahead, blue sky is visible, a bank of clouds farther on.
- Heavy banks of clouds covered the sky, only a pale glow seeping through.
- It got rather too hot for outdoor comfort by lunch time but not long after that a bank of rain cloud appeared as if by magic, giving us a short, sharp shower that served to cool the whole landscape.
- We learned that boulders hurt even when covered by snow banks.
Synonyms slope, rise, incline, gradient, ramp, acclivity mound, ridge, hillock, hummock, knoll, hump, barrow, tumulus, earthwork, parados, berm elevation, eminence, prominence bar, reef, shoal, shelf accumulation, pile, heap, mass, drift British dialect tump - 2.1 An elevation in the seabed or a riverbed; a mudbank or sandbank.
Example sentencesExamples - The floor was a soft bank of gravel and sand underneath half a metre of scum topped water.
- So obviously when you have a tremendous coral reef and the combination of shallow banks, you have a fantastic habitat for all types of marine life.
- The rope lands on a shingle bank in the streambed.
- Flat banks of white sand covered with tall grasses stretched into the distance.
- It is an altogether different kind of wreck, with the broken remains well scattered and partly buried by a 2m-high bank of sand.
- The route goes up and down, deepest point 18m and as shallow as 6m over some sand and gravel banks.
- This is definitely so for small juvenile fish, but the bigger adults prefer a mix of clean and broken ground, often seeking out gravel banks and sandbanks adjacent to much rougher ground.
- It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
- At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
- Far from the island we waded through a waist deep channel of fast flowing ebb tide, then climbed onto a hard bank of rippled sand.
- 2.2 A transverse slope given to a road, railway, or sports track to enable vehicles or runners to maintain speed round a curve.
Example sentencesExamples - This week I make the swap from climbing the banks of the track to climbing the mountains in California.
- I learned firsthand how these Olympic competitors use the steep banks to reach top speed.
- Sometimes, as we rode the bank of a curve, the wheels became slightly airborne, momentarily escaping the pull of gravity.
- So we need a good baseline setup for a great car for the weekend because it is a pretty flat track, and the bank doesn't help the car turn.
Synonyms slope, rise, incline, gradient, ramp, acclivity, tump - 2.3mass noun The sideways tilt of an aircraft when turning in flight.
a rather steep angle of bank Example sentencesExamples - Unless there's a specific pitch or bank error you actively want to correct, don't touch the controls.
- It would be of value to calculate the exact stall speeds for the actual wing loading at various appropriate bank angles.
- The aircraft rolls a bit to the left and he compensates by adding some right aileron to hold the 30-degree bank angle.
- Another option would be to roll the helicopter into a high angle of bank to stay over the airfield and to avoid the trees.
- Maybe the low altitude intimidates the pilot and the bigger bank angle seems threatening.
- As I reduced my left hand bank angle to shift my circle I was pitched violently over.
- This action made the situation even worse, because the left cyclic only put us into a sharp angle of bank before impact.
- Back-stick pressure must also be released as bank decreases or the aircraft will climb.
- Guessing he knew best, I once again pulled power and rolled the aircraft to a 45-degree angle of bank.
- He indicated that the angle of bank decreased periodically, but that the aircraft was always in a right wing-low attitude.
- It has been speculated that it was in this bank that the left wing hit terrain, beginning the crash sequence.
- A hard bank to starboard broke the lock quickly enough but the enemy pilot was still on him.
- Your handling has started to degenerate and you are having trouble holding bank angles.
- Sensing the danger, Dan eased off his angle of bank and pulled up slightly, barrel rolling away from the direction of turn.
- As we cruise by the water bird colony at 300 feet, I roll the aircraft into a rather steep angle of bank.
- I know this because throughout the roll into the unwanted bank, she was literally shouting at me for help!
- All aerobatics, spins and banks in excess of 60 degrees are prohibited.
- If there is too much bank for the crosswind, excess lift is deflected to the right, and the airplane actually moves sideways into the wind.
- We were still in a 30-degree angle of bank turn to the left, but my senses were telling me I was straight and level.
- I made my power pull into the wind for take-off and found myself excessively nose low, with an increasing angle of bank.
3A set of similar things, especially electrical or electronic devices, grouped together in rows. the DJ had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console Example sentencesExamples - Its English news studio sports a bank of TV monitors just as CNN does.
- There was smoke in the hall near the bank of elevators.
- He goes to work at his bank of electronics, and yes - twiddles some knobs.
- There was a pool table, a small bank of computers and a corpulent Italian speaking loudly into a mobile phone.
- By the time both beds were wheeled to the end of the hallway near a bank of elevators, Jared was able to see both kidnappers more closely.
- Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills.
- It is not the mast but the bank of aerials at the top that radiates microwave energy.
- That engine featured three banks of four cylinders each.
- In that grey box you see by the railroad crossing lights there is a bank of batteries.
- At the front of the vehicle he saw a bank of large video monitors that gave an astonishing real-time view of the terrain outside.
- Check for sources of electromagnetic interference such as banks of modems on web servers.
- Two banks of four electric smoke grenade dischargers are fitted either side of the front turret.
- Whenever I saw him standing at the bank of elevators, I'd quickly turn and scurry away.
- He rounded a bank of lockers and almost got a Glock 9mm shoved up his nose.
- It consisted of a bank of electronic tone generators and an associated array of processing devices that regulated the nature of the sounds.
- My flickering flashlight swung across a bank of overhead stowage.
- It is powered by a conventional electric motor with a bank of batteries to run it.
- Across the room, mounted above a bank of exercise machines, are five television monitors, each set to a different station.
- Off to one side of the lobby now, I spied a bank of elevators.
- There are banks of electronic gizmos of unknown origin and purpose.
Synonyms array, row, line, tier, group, series panel, console, board - 3.1 A tier of oars.
the early ships had only twenty-five oars in each bank Example sentencesExamples - The starboard banks of oars dipped hard into the water, and the trading ship swung abruptly to the left and slowly glided to the dock.
- The standard galley or galere ordinaire, had twenty-six banks of oars per side, with five men at each oar.
- If there were 100 oars per bank, that would have required 15000 oarsmen.
4The cushion of a pool table. Example sentencesExamples - I can only stop the cue ball and take a chance on the bank shot.
- I have been known to go to my bank shots when I am not seeing the cut shots.
- Got any pointers on the diamond system or some good way of practicing bank shots?
- His surprise victory was completed with a well-taken length of the table bank shot on the 8 ball.
- Roy sank 3 more and snookered Dave but he played a bank shot potting his ball in the centre!
verb baŋkbæŋk [with object]1Heap (a substance) into a mass or mound. the rain banked the soil up behind the gate snow was banked in humps at the roadside Example sentencesExamples - The muck was banked up so high in places that we couldnt rescue some of the horses until the doors had been removed from their hinges.
- In places, snow was banked up more than 3m either side of the road.
- In Europe, particularly France, Germany, and Belgium, they cultivate a white asparagus by gradually banking the soil over the shoots as they grow.
Synonyms pile (up), heap (up), stack (up), make a pile of, make a heap of, make a stack of accumulate, amass, assemble, put together - 1.1no object Form into a mass or mound.
purple clouds banked up over the hills Example sentencesExamples - He said there had been several instances where traffic had banked up after objects were placed on the city's train tracks.
- When the traffic banked up and a driver braked, car wheels could get hooked up in the ruts.
- The cottage was quiet, almost buried in the drifts banked up against the walls.
- Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself.
- That rubble now lay banked up around the ship, covering perhaps two meters of the lower hull; more towards the stern.
- 1.2 Heap up (a fire) with tightly packed fuel so that it burns slowly.
Example sentencesExamples - Greg, who was the only one who knew how to do it properly, had been banking the fire every night so they would have embers to start the morning's fire with.
- They'd stoked and banked the fire for the night, drawn the purple drapes, and put a hot bedpan in between her sheets to warm it ready for her.
- She took his hand, leading him around the room as she turned off lights, banked the fire.
- The water was heated by the coal range and we would bank up the fire before going to bed and have plenty of hot water in the morning.
- Back in my room, I banked up the fire until I had a roaring blaze going.
Synonyms damp (down), smother, stifle - 1.3 Edge or surround with a ridge or row of something.
steps banked with pots of chrysanthemums Example sentencesExamples - She pulled her IV stand behind her as she walked over to the sofa in the corner of the room, banked by large bookcases filled with novels of all genres.
- In summer, umbrella-topped tables line a terrace banked with flowers, creating a romantic spot for dinner under the stars.
- This addition can be as simple as a wall spigot dripping musically into a trough banked with pots of bright flowers.
- ‘Let's have a seat shall we,’ the two walked over to some chairs that were banked along the wall and sat down.
2(with reference to an aircraft or vehicle) tilt or cause to tilt sideways in making a turn. no object the plane banked as if to return to the airport with object I banked the aircraft steeply and turned Example sentencesExamples - However, panic began to set in amongst the passengers when the aircraft suddenly banked to one side before plunging 10,000 feet in four seconds.
- I watched from the rooftop as the the aircraft banked and swooped and burst into bright flames which showered to the ground like fireworks.
- At the end, I swoop up again and bank left, taking the aircraft in a steep climb over the surrounding hills.
- As the aircraft continued to bank to about 80 deg, ground contact became more positive and the left wing started to buckle.
- Then the plane started to bank to the side and go into a rather sharp turn.
- The plane felt fine, no observable damage, so I banked around and went in for another quick pass.
- Most aircraft except for helicopters will bank to make a turn.
- As the plane was banking around the city, he could clearly see the downtown section and the building his lab was in.
- The plane lurched up, banked to its left and started to fall off in our direction.
- He took over the flight controls and banked the airplane to the right.
- The fun was over, and I slowed and banked up to a safer altitude.
- He said the plane banked steeply on its approach.
- He gently banked his aircraft forty-five degrees west to make a wide circle around the burning vehicles.
- The aircraft carrier banked sharply, turning to port, tilting the whole world thirty degrees.
- The engine thunder came to them as the plane banked away over the sea.
- Everyone was soon out and with a nod, a very cool nod, the pilot banked the aircraft sideways and downwards away from the wall and roared off up the gorge.
- The plane had to turn and come right, banking around the tower.
- He performed a tactical approach to the airfield, banking the plane 45 degrees in a tight downward spiral to the left.
- The aircraft banked sharply over Mangrove Cay before leveling out as the pilot made his final approach to the runway.
- Afraid the soldiers had seen the package, Ian ducked down instinctively, but the aircraft banked steeply and slid down into the valley.
Synonyms tilt, lean, tip, slant, incline, angle, slope, list, camber, pitch, dip, cant, put/be at an angle - 2.1with object Build (a road, railway, or sports track) higher at the outer edge of a bend to facilitate fast cornering.
the track was banked to allow a train to take curves faster while maintaining passenger comfort Example sentencesExamples - The teammate then moves to the top of the circular banked track and coasts while he recovers for his next stint.
- It cost £3.5m to build and adjoins the Sportcity indoor facility which boasts a four-lane, banked 200m track.
- Five miles of twisting, turning, banked track with just enough adrenaline to keep you interested but not enough to make you throw up.
- Cyclists contest a variety of events on an inside oval track banked at 42 degrees.
- And imagine that situation not on a flat highway, but on a narrow, one-groove racetrack with banked corners.
- The 1.51-mile infield road course includes part of the banked oval track used for NASCAR stock-car races.
- It really all depends on what you're wanting to do and how banked the track is.
- These turns are usually banked, constructed at an angle, which allows the cyclist to ride in a straight line with the track banking navigating the direction.
- One of the corners is also going to be slightly banked, which will be interesting.
- The counterclockwise racing of the greyhounds on a banked track may have predisposed their uphill foot to increased stress.
- The banked corners are a feature of the Indianapolis circuit and are a one-off in Formula One.
- It doesn't have as much clearance underneath it for this kind of a banked race track.
- In Japan, where top riders earn fortunes, the tracks are less steeply banked and they race on all-weather asphalt, rather than wooden surfaces.
- Exeter is a track a lot of riders don't like because it is very fast and banked.
- Since the tracks are banked, the advantage usually goes to the driver on the inside - the outside car is more vulnerable.
- This event features four racers at a time taking a downhill course full of jumps, turns and banked corners in a race to the finish.
- Cycling on banked tracks is one of the oldest forms of the sport, dating back to the track-racing boom of the 1890s in Europe.
- Confidence grew as riders got used to the banked track, but the day was sadly marred by a serious injury to one of the Lancaster CC contingent who landed heavily on the hard surface in the track centre.
- On to an indicated 190 mph and I have exceeded my personal best; now the banked bend approaches and we are gaining on the car in front, so I have to slow.
- The tight, banked bends on indoor tracks mean a tall athlete with a long stride length will struggle in the 200m and 400m.
3often as noun bankingBritish (of a locomotive) provide additional power for (a train) in ascending an incline. Example sentencesExamples - The train would have stopped in the adjacent Victoria station to collect a banking locomotive to assist up the stiff climb to Miles Platting.
- A banking locomotive was often used to assist trains up particularly steep or long banks, or gradients.
- Mr Elson said because banking locomotives were put on at Tebay to get the trains up the hill, and were taken off at Askrigg Bank, the two layouts made a fascinating pair to display together.
4(of an angler) succeed in landing (a fish) it was the biggest rainbow trout that had ever been banked Example sentencesExamples - Even whilst these fish were being weighed and photographed, Joe and Chris banked further fish of 37 lb 8oz and 34 lb 6oz.
- Yes, this is pike heaven all right and it won't be long before one day somebody banks that magical sixty-pound fish.
- This is about as close to the weir as you can bank fish.
- In all I banked sixty-one fish in about forty sessions.
- Several roach over that magical 2lb barrier have been banked recently with anglers prepared to sit it out on bread flake being rewarded with the better fish.
5North American (in pool) play (a ball) so that it rebounds off a surface such as a cushion. I banked the eight ball off two cushions Example sentencesExamples - You can shoot the safe by banking the 7-ball to the center of the rail, but the better choice is not to let your opponent shoot at all.
- He banks the seven just to show off.
- I've reverse banked many an eight ball to give my opponent a ‘hopeless’ feeling.
Origin Middle English: from Old Norse bakki, of Germanic origin; related to bench. The senses 'set of things in rows' and 'tier of oars' are from French banc, of the same ultimate origin. The very different uses of bank are all ultimately related. The bank beside a river was adopted from a Scandinavian word in the early Middle Ages, and is related to bench (Old English). The earliest use of the bank for a financial institution referred to a money-dealer's counter or table. This came from French or Italian in the late 15th century, but goes back to the same root as the river bank. A bank of oars or of lights represents yet another related form. It came into English in the early Middle Ages from French, and originally meant a bench or a platform to speak from. The bench or platform sense is also found in mountebank (late 16th century) for a charlatan, which comes from Italian monta in banco ‘climb on the bench’ referring to the way they attract a crowd, while a bankrupt (mid 16th century), originally a bankrout takes us back to the ‘counter’ sense. It is from Italian banca rotta, which really means ‘a broken bench’, referring to the breaking up of the traders business at the counter. The word was altered early on in its history in English, through association with Latin ruptus ‘broken’. Yet another word from the same source is banquet (Late Middle English) which comes from the French for ‘little bench’ and was originally a snack rather than a lavish meal.
Rhymes ankh, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank noun baŋkbæŋk 1A financial establishment that uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency. as modifier a bank account Example sentencesExamples - Most people have a current account and most banks pay virtually no interest on this money.
- Retained earnings are just as much money as a bank loan or new equity.
- Should I be looking for a bank loan or alternative finance, perhaps through an outside investor?
- His unorthodox government has not helped to attract investors, and foreign banks lowered corporate credit ratings for new loans.
- It also included the interest rates on the bank loans that the winner would take.
- There is no denying that in Zambia many such establishments, especially the banks, operate money markets that are under serious pecuniary constraints.
- When you are financing such investments, bank charges and any interest payments are typically deductible in the year in which they are paid.
- The easiest way to do so will be to deposit the money into banks or invest it in stock and bond funds and life-insurance policies.
- This amount of money could be supplemented by a loan received from a bank - high interest, but easily accessible as a last option.
- It is common sense that citizens will not deposit money in banks for such minimal interest earnings.
- The company will finance half of the planned investment through a bank loan.
- ‘Because of the exchange risk, banks assume that local currency loans are best,’ Rumenov added.
- It's in how the money is spent - long after the offerings are counted and safely in the bank.
- The banks must pay a substantial portion of the Army escort service in light of the huge profits they are making, the Minister said.
- We've regularly - almost religiously - deposited money into our bank savings account.
- Portfolio investment also includes deposits in banks and financial investment in government or private securities.
- My current bank deposit account interest rate has just been cut again.
- That begs the question as to whether our money would be safer under the mattress or in a bank deposit account than invested in shares, unit trusts or pension schemes.
- However, there was one clear distinction between giving and taking interest on loans and bank deposits.
- To make the investments Helmersen borrowed large sums of money from Danish banks and financial institutions.
Synonyms financial institution commercial bank, merchant bank, savings bank, finance company, finance house, lender, mortgagee British high-street bank, clearing bank, building society North American savings and loan (association), thrift - 1.1 A stock of something available for use when required.
figurative Britain has a bank of highly exportable skills Example sentencesExamples - Xenografts derived from animal sources might also be used and could be stored in tissue banks for use when required.
- Each question in the test bank is referenced to its original source in the textbook, making it easy to verify or modify questions and answers.
- The number of eggs stored in the egg bank varied within and among species but was usually lower in the temporary pond species.
- Further, tissue banks are only required to test donated human tissue for HIV and hepatitis viruses.
- Also, these figures are based on me submitting articles to various article banks on the Internet myself.
- For example, seed dormancy, leading to the production of soil seed banks, allows escape from unfavourable conditions in time rather than in space.
- For an egg bank to maintain its value as a historical record, the sediments should have little or no disturbance.
- The organization now has an image bank of stock images that clients can view and contact the photographers.
- These banks are maintained for all those in need, not to store blood for any particular potential recipient.
- Many were tested on the huge bank of prepared specimen slides Joyce had assembled in the deep freezes in Newcastle.
- Already artists, scientists, musicians and communities have together created a bank of songs, stories, choirs and artworks.
- The value of the seed bank in the species pool at GCB was estimated to be greater than any other species establishment mode.
- Time banks, where members build up credits by giving up an hour of their time to provide a service for another person in the scheme, are a more recent phenomenon.
- The building settles into contours, spreading out horizontally over a vast buried chamber - the seed bank itself.
- We are also concerned about the emergence of essay banks on the Internet.
- There is a bank of volunteer drivers available although many groups prefer to use their own.
- The eye bank is accessible round the clock through a dedicated hotline 1081.
- A job bank computer is also available at the office and helps those looking for work to see what is available.
- That is a good idea, and Work and Income is ensuring that its job bank is available across the country and provides a wider range of information.
Synonyms store, reserve, accumulation, stock, stockpile, inventory, supply, pool, fund, cache, hoard, deposit storehouse, reservoir, repository, depository rare amassment - 1.2 A site or receptacle where something may be deposited for recycling.
Example sentencesExamples - A paper recycle bank is placed at the amenity site.
- The other new recycling banks are located in Aughagower, Manulla and Westport.
- The provision of ten recycling banks was commended by the judging panel but they saw weed control as a problem at Barrack Street near the junction with the Tullow Road.
- The public is also reminded not to leave bags or boxes at the recycling banks.
- Christmas cards should not be put in recycling boxes or paper banks.
- Limerick Community Council has advised that recycling banks are now in place at the car park at Twohig's Supervalu, Killarney Road.
- If you do not compost at home the shredded paper can be put in the paper bank at your nearest recycling facility.
- He said it had also been agreed to have a book bank at the site.
- On an ongoing basis, there are bottle and can banks near the library, so you can recycle those materials as often as suits your needs.
- But can, paper and textile banks will remain at the site near the Buck Inn unless a new home can be found for all the recycling bins.
- There has been an alarming increase in illegal dumping at the recycling banks at Merville.
- Villages currently not part of the kerbside recycling scheme all have access to paper recycling banks.
- People can dispose of it in a paper bank or household recycling centres.
- A total of 20 shoe recycling banks have been introduced by South Lakeland District Council across the district to encourage more people to put their old shoes to a good use.
- To find out more, or for details of your nearest bottle or paper banks, contact the city council's special recycling helpline on 01904 636000.
- There are also recycling banks for glass, paper and clothing as well as an area for fridges and freezers.
- It is first time that aluminium foil has been collected at the council's recycling centres, though Eden Community Recycling already has banks at its own sites.
- The Salvation Army is hoping it will be able to re-use many of the items deposited in its recycling banks.
- Under the scheme, people take bottles to the banks for subsequent re-cycling.
- The council capitulated and had the paper bank moved to a ‘safer’ site - the car park near Acomb Park shops.
- 1.3the bank The store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games.
Example sentencesExamples - If everyone has played and there is money in the bank, the banker deals a new hand in the opposite direction from the hand that has just ended.
- The bank can also change hands after any hand if the existing banker wishes to sell the bank to another player at a mutually agreed price.
- 1.4 The person holding the bank in some gambling or board games; the banker.
Example sentencesExamples - Additionally, you can only be the banker for one hand, after which the bank reverts to the dealer for the next hand.
- Here the bank would take half the money that had been staked on the paired cards.
- Agreed, Mark, they do charge a five percent commission when you bet the bank hand in baccarat, but only when you win.
- 1.5US informal mass noun A large amount of money.
those entrepreneurs are raking in some serious bank the estate makes bank off the sale of merchandise
verb baŋkbæŋk 1with object Deposit (money or valuables) in a bank. she may have banked a cheque in the wrong account Example sentencesExamples - Sell our home now, bank our profit, and rent a property until the local market looks attractive once more.
- Rather we mean those who spend the morning banking their dividend cheques and the afternoon at the gym, on the tennis court or at the club.
- ‘If they banked that money the government would have cut their grant for the following year,’ John explained.
- You filled in various documents of a minor nature, banked money and signed cheques.
- It was only too clear that a few of them were simply banking the salary from the Observer and then getting extra work from TV, radio and other publications.
- We need people to collect in local supermarkets and count and bank the money.
- The first recommendation I would make is that the Minister stops banking the money that he thinks he will get from the department, because he is very unlikely to get it.
- A £10,000 cheque will be banked by Sunday's victors from the FA's prize fund with the prospect of much more to follow if Saturday's draw proves favourable.
- This includes people required to conduct collections in local supermarkets, count and bank the money.
- The only problem is, normal economic dealings use high-powered supercomputers and economic analysts to make sure that the money is banked correctly.
- It was only obvious to me because I have been banking money for many years, but I think nine out of ten people would be fooled by it.
- That was replaced by ‘bills of exchange’ except that there is evidence that the money was banked for the $10 initial capital of each of the funds.
- By the time the cheque has been banked, the PO box has closed and the ‘company’ has moved on.
- His vendor will then bank the money - and it may be loaned to someone else.
- All we need now is for people to place the boxes during the last two weeks of February then collect them in at the beginning of April and bank the money.
- Street kids in Nepal are now being given the opportunity to bank their money, so that bigger kids won't beat them up and steal it.
- The money is banked in the form of commuter credits, which employees can use to buy bike parts at a 10% discount.
- Obviously, we banked the money because we didn't know whether or not it was a donation.
- Minimise idle cash balances by banking money quickly and seeking best investment rates.
- Crackdowns by the Criminal Assets Bureau have made criminals reluctant to bank their money in the republic.
Synonyms deposit, pay in clear save, save up, keep, keep in reserve, lay by, put aside, set aside, put by, put by for a rainy day, hoard, cache, garner informal stash (away), salt away, squirrel away have an account at, deposit one's money with, use, be a customer of, deal with, do business with - 1.1no object Have an account at a particular bank.
the family has banked with Coutts for generations Example sentencesExamples - It's possible these days to bank with an institution for years and only enter a branch once.
- Unfortunately most of us bank with the four main banks and we just can't be bothered to switch.
- In fact, the newly-merged charity Cancer Research UK continues to bank with the Royal Bank of Scotland among others.
- Consider getting your card through the financial institution you bank with.
- Like my father, I've always banked with Barclays.
- I bank with Coutts and I have a personal banker who is really good.
- Does this mean that in the future we will all have to bank with ‘The Bank of Safeway’ in order to buy groceries?
- I would still like to say, proudly, that I bank with the Bank of Scotland.
- Lance Armstrong has the friendship of the President of the United States, an adoring, bright-eyed family and millions banked with Chase Manhattan.
- Having recently arrived from the UK, where I banked with HSBC, I could see many ways for the Bank of Bermuda to improve their service.
- Mr Gibson also checked Bryant family accounts at Lismore after I mentioned that my father banked with the ANZ.
- Early stage and start up companies that bank with AIB will qualify for a 30 per cent discount on Sage products.
- Around a third of people have banked with the same institution for more than 20 years and almost half have stayed loyal to the same account for life.
- The majority of these respondents now banked with a non-bank financial institution or a community bank.
- I have banked with Cahoot for several years, and this incident will not change my opinion about the value of online banking.
- The two farmers banked with the Limavady branch of Ulster Bank where a Mr Sparks and a Mr Wallace were manager and assistant manager respectively.
- I bank with Alliance & Leicester, which offers travel insurance as part of its account service.
- It is usual for the parents to bank with the financial institution granting the mortgage and they may be asked to have part of the guarantee on deposit.
- We regret very deeply the anxiety it will cause a large number of patients who have banked with us.
- And oh no, the poor bank had to give out some free coffee to someone who doesn't bank with them.
- 1.2informal Win or earn (a sum of money)
he banked £100,000 for a hole-in-one Example sentencesExamples - Like Locke, Rodriguez also banked the most cash in his category, earning $523,445.
- Nigel thankfully revealed a year later that had he cooled his affair with Baltimore and had banked some ‘significant gains’.
- They moved to Nevada, built a beautiful new dream home, which they paid off completely, and still banked a hefty sum after taxes.
- This suggests that South Africans are not banking any of the gains being offered from our interest rate bonanza.
- A candidate who can bank those sums is not only a threat to win, but a threat to disrupt the rules by which campaigns are run, paid for, and won.
- 1.3 Store (something, especially blood, tissue, or sperm) for future use.
the sperm is banked or held in storage for the following spring Example sentencesExamples - He was a very successful business man who turned to sperm banking, and he realized he had to sell to this customers.
- Many in the field of reproductive medicine shared his hopes and fears as well as his fascination with the eugenic potential of sperm banking.
- Tissue and bone banking poses significant risks to recipients if errors are made.
- Previously banked cord blood samples were identified for both patients, however were too small to be used.
- The sperm they banked would be the difference between having a family or not now that radiation therapy has destroyed their body's healthy cells.
- It is known that we can safely collect sperm samples for sperm banking up to twenty days after the start of chemotherapy.
- My feeling is that the patient should be adequately counseled regarding the risks and benefits as well as the possibility of sperm banking.
- Trevor, 42, an engineer, banked the sperm in 1979, at the age of 17.
- CCF has been collecting male cheetahs since 1996 and has sperm banked over 90 male cheetahs.
- Hunter will undergo a CT scan to assess the extent of his cancer on Tuesday, and also said he planned to bank sperm before beginning his chemotherapy.
- There are smaller satellite clinics that might do limited sperm banking.
- It would also help men too ill to bank sperm before chemotherapy.
- Administrative personnel should be familiar with this document and its application to the components of tissue banking performed.
- Part of the work we do as a charity is to reassure men that they can have sperm banked, but now there will obviously be a fear that it won't work.
- A third patient explained that, like me, he had no desire to father children but felt that by banking sperm he was in some way ‘preserving his masculinity.’
- In spite of what my logical brain was telling me, I think there was a nagging doubt that if I did not bank some sperm I might later regret the decision.
- Program review should be performed at least annually to ensure ongoing compliance with regulations and safe tissue banking practices.
- We typically recommend checking every 3 months, and we offer sperm banking based upon the quality of the sample.
Phrases informal (especially in the context of property purchase) a person's parents regarded as a source of financial assistance or support. they face a lifetime of renting unless the Bank of Mum and Dad is willing to help out Example sentencesExamples - However, increasingly poor affordability and likely cutbacks at the Bank of Mum and Dad may cause the rate of house price growth to move back into single digits in the latter part of the year.
- The business of the Bank of Mum and Dad is fraught with moral and practical questions.
- Furthermore, the bank of mum and dad carries on well into adulthood, it seems.
- Few people can expect the 'Bank of Mum and Dad' to bail them out if borrowing costs rise.
- Regarding the flat, it's a combination of the bank of Mum and Dad, some inheritance money, a large mortgage, and my savings.
- According to the survey, most students will not be able to count on help from the Bank of Mum and Dad.
- The 'Bank of Mum and Dad' never closes.
- Parents stumping up all or some of the money for their children to put down on a property is the most common way the Bank of Mum and Dad is coming through for first-time buyers.
- Children or grandchildren like the Bank of Mum and Dad because they have to jump through fewer hoops to get their money and the repayment terms may be easier.
- They borrow money from the Bank of Mum and Dad, which most will never repay.
1(in gambling) win more money than is held by the bank. winning the pools was the equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo Example sentencesExamples - He breaks the bank, but when he offers Paulina the money to buy off the marquis, she is ashamed and hurls it back at him in disgust.
- On the drive home, I kept chuckling and whistling, ‘He's the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’!
- 1.1informal usually with negativeCost more than one can afford.
at £30, the shirts won't break the bank Example sentencesExamples - However, a week in the fjords in summer or cross-country skiing in winter doesn't have to break the bank, and many tour operators offer affordable packages.
- Four important players were making next to nothing, allowing the team to win without breaking the bank.
- The cost of fitted shelves and units can break the bank.
- You could still afford an exclusive bridal service without breaking the bank!
- One might argue that some of the existing members just wouldn't be able to afford it but would £1 per week really break the bank?
Phrasal Verbs the prime minister cannot bank on their support Example sentencesExamples - I'm still banking on a decent turnaround, though, based on his overall history.
- To achieve a winning season, the Rockies are banking on a return to their Blake Street Bomber days.
- China is also hoping to bank on the region's proximity to Japan and Korea.
- The space could be let for £5,000 - £6,000 a year, but it is the capital growth that investors are banking on.
- Others were banking on more modest pensions, such as £16,000 or £7,000.
- Red Hat and Mandrake are clearly banking on support contracts and installations of their advanced server products to generate revenue.
- Now he is one of only 11 players to earn a central contract and England are banking on him to be a central figure in their World Cup plans.
- Spice 21, nice though the food was, never seemed overly busy whenever I walked past, so it would seem the new owners are banking on the buffet to bring in the business.
- The number seven seed will have her work cut out against seed Fionna Geaves, but like Taylor will be banking on the support of the home crowd.
- Mr Burr, who has already invested £250,000 of his own money in the project, was banking on Didcot power station buying his processed crop.
- His 12 league goals have earned a huge chunk of the 25 survival points they have already amassed and they are banking on him securing a fair few more before the season is out.
- Instead, it says simply, ‘Trust us,’ and banks on our fear of terror and ambivalence toward the rules of justice to ensure we do exactly that without asking too many hard questions.
- Shoutmail is banking on convenience and ease of use to expand its user base and to attract advertisers in the process.
- Strong trial results sent the Nasdaq-quoted shares flying last week, causing pain to a bunch of short-sellers who were banking on a price collapse.
- I have had them before in the past and never done anything about it so I'm banking on the fact that as I'm still here, it's just something that happens now and then.
- I beat the pre-holiday rush to the temple of gadgets to buy some paint and ended up buying a bargain hammock instead - but I'm not banking on much relaxation.
- Terry Dolan is banking on the York City faithful to raise the roof at Filbert Street and roar the Minstermen on to success in tomorrow's FA Cup clash with Leicester City.
- This means taking measures that do not bank on doctoring figures and introducing cosmetic measures, as was done in the case of poverty reduction figures.
- Instead, Microsoft are banking on the triple-core to handle those kinds of calculations.
- Other parts of Scotland will see their fire cover reduced even more substantially as the government banks on the country's 4,000 part-time and volunteer firefighters to resist the strike call.
- The company is banking on competing with Cisco based on its laser-beam focus on the cable market.
- Microsoft no doubt knows this, but is presumably banking on most users going along with the process, as they've tended to do in the past.
- Talk about such novel ventures and you sure can bank on the support of Revathy Menon, film actress.
- But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation.
- Dr Greenspan professes to being ‘deeply distressed’ to learn accountants are ratifying dodgy figures because he always banked on their integrity.
Synonyms rely on, depend on, count on, place reliance on, bargain on, plan on, reckon on, calculate on, presume on
Origin Late 15th century (originally denoting a money dealer's table): from French banque or Italian banca, from medieval Latin banca, bancus, of Germanic origin; related to bank1 and bench. nounbæŋkbaNGk 1The land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake. Example sentencesExamples - The Glasgow plan aims to quicken the pace of development at Atlantic Quay and surrounding land on the north bank of the river.
- Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey.
- Willow will be planted to shore up the banks of the River Devon and wetland created to soak up water on neighbouring hilltops.
- When we finally arrived at the rather pretty camp-site on the banks of a blue lake, we had been travelling for more than 24 hours.
- The poplar and willow trees line the opposite bank of the River Kennet from the Town Mill homes.
- Wooden lodges and log cabins are usually found on the banks of a lake or river.
- They were standing on the banks of the lake in the forest, watching the sunlight glisten off its silver surface.
- Lighting effects have been put up in trees and rafts lie alongside the banks of the lake suggesting that fireworks could be launched from the water's surface.
- Winter Wrens breed in moist coniferous forests and nest in dense brush especially along stream banks.
- Welcome to the sunny banks of Lake Victoria in Tanzania - one of the world's largest lakes and, according to some, the cradle of humankind.
- Each year, hundreds of thousands of spectators line the banks of the River Thames to support the two crews.
- These figures for the most part do not include freshwater wetlands along the shores of lakes, banks of rivers, in estuaries and along the marine coasts.
- Russian villages were typically situated near the bank of a lake, river, or stream.
- Santo said the flooding was triggered by torrential rains over the last three days, which caused several rivers to overflow their banks.
- He and a girlfriend moved into an old hunting shack on the banks of Lake Superior, about eight miles from the nearest town.
- Beyond that, a narrower but more fertile inner plain slopes down to the bank of the Delaware River.
- All these cities are built alongside rivers whose banks provide major recreational spaces.
- The river overflows its banks and floods the land with fresh water and deposits a thick layer of rich alluvial soil.
- We chugged along the river, its banks lined with shabby wooden huts.
- Massive housing projects are springing up on the banks of lakes.
Synonyms edge, side, embankment, levee, border, verge, boundary, margin, rim, fringe, fringes, flank, brink, perimeter, circumference, extremity, periphery, limit, outer limit, limits, bound, bounds 2A slope, mass, or mound of a particular substance. Example sentencesExamples - The grassy banks, constructed about 150 years ago, have never been treated with pesticides or fertilisers.
- Heavy banks of clouds covered the sky, only a pale glow seeping through.
- As we begin our descent I am able to catch a glimpse of a magnificent peak penetrating the cloud bank near Portland.
- On either side, cliffs tower upwards with dark cloud banks masking their peaks; small waterfalls cascade down the abyss and onto the windscreen.
- I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop.
- Dead ahead, blue sky is visible, a bank of clouds farther on.
- The main runway will be put back to arable land and a bank of trees will be planted on the outside.
- The snow banks are enormous because they keep stacking it and stacking it all winter.
- She started falling sideways and ended up flat on her back in a snow bank!
- Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
- The shop occupies a prominent and elevated position on a grassy bank next to the Market Cross.
- I stood up and Jordan and I walked over to the grassy bank by the playground.
- It was an especially severe New England winter; snow banks were our foremost obstacles.
- At the top I encountered my first daffodils on the grassy bank in front of a house.
- Behind, a saffron-tinged bank of clouds rises above a shadowy fringe of trees.
- Hedgerows with grassy banks can shelter primroses, orchids and other wildflowers.
- We learned that boulders hurt even when covered by snow banks.
- If you hang them below the bumper, they can easily get knocked out of adjustment or even broken by curbs or snow banks.
- Turn left and cross two bridges before taking a path to the right, along the top of a grassy bank.
- It got rather too hot for outdoor comfort by lunch time but not long after that a bank of rain cloud appeared as if by magic, giving us a short, sharp shower that served to cool the whole landscape.
Synonyms slope, rise, incline, gradient, ramp, acclivity, tump - 2.1 An elevation in the seabed or a riverbed; a mudbank or sandbank.
Example sentencesExamples - Flat banks of white sand covered with tall grasses stretched into the distance.
- The route goes up and down, deepest point 18m and as shallow as 6m over some sand and gravel banks.
- Far from the island we waded through a waist deep channel of fast flowing ebb tide, then climbed onto a hard bank of rippled sand.
- At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
- The floor was a soft bank of gravel and sand underneath half a metre of scum topped water.
- It is an altogether different kind of wreck, with the broken remains well scattered and partly buried by a 2m-high bank of sand.
- It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
- The rope lands on a shingle bank in the streambed.
- So obviously when you have a tremendous coral reef and the combination of shallow banks, you have a fantastic habitat for all types of marine life.
- This is definitely so for small juvenile fish, but the bigger adults prefer a mix of clean and broken ground, often seeking out gravel banks and sandbanks adjacent to much rougher ground.
- 2.2 A transverse slope given to a road, railroad, or sports track to enable vehicles or runners to maintain speed around a curve.
Example sentencesExamples - I learned firsthand how these Olympic competitors use the steep banks to reach top speed.
- Sometimes, as we rode the bank of a curve, the wheels became slightly airborne, momentarily escaping the pull of gravity.
- This week I make the swap from climbing the banks of the track to climbing the mountains in California.
- So we need a good baseline setup for a great car for the weekend because it is a pretty flat track, and the bank doesn't help the car turn.
Synonyms slope, rise, incline, gradient, ramp, acclivity, tump - 2.3 The sideways tilt of an aircraft when turning in flight.
flying with small amounts of bank Example sentencesExamples - The aircraft rolls a bit to the left and he compensates by adding some right aileron to hold the 30-degree bank angle.
- I know this because throughout the roll into the unwanted bank, she was literally shouting at me for help!
- As we cruise by the water bird colony at 300 feet, I roll the aircraft into a rather steep angle of bank.
- Guessing he knew best, I once again pulled power and rolled the aircraft to a 45-degree angle of bank.
- Another option would be to roll the helicopter into a high angle of bank to stay over the airfield and to avoid the trees.
- This action made the situation even worse, because the left cyclic only put us into a sharp angle of bank before impact.
- It would be of value to calculate the exact stall speeds for the actual wing loading at various appropriate bank angles.
- He indicated that the angle of bank decreased periodically, but that the aircraft was always in a right wing-low attitude.
- All aerobatics, spins and banks in excess of 60 degrees are prohibited.
- If there is too much bank for the crosswind, excess lift is deflected to the right, and the airplane actually moves sideways into the wind.
- It has been speculated that it was in this bank that the left wing hit terrain, beginning the crash sequence.
- Back-stick pressure must also be released as bank decreases or the aircraft will climb.
- A hard bank to starboard broke the lock quickly enough but the enemy pilot was still on him.
- As I reduced my left hand bank angle to shift my circle I was pitched violently over.
- Maybe the low altitude intimidates the pilot and the bigger bank angle seems threatening.
- Your handling has started to degenerate and you are having trouble holding bank angles.
- I made my power pull into the wind for take-off and found myself excessively nose low, with an increasing angle of bank.
- We were still in a 30-degree angle of bank turn to the left, but my senses were telling me I was straight and level.
- Sensing the danger, Dan eased off his angle of bank and pulled up slightly, barrel rolling away from the direction of turn.
- Unless there's a specific pitch or bank error you actively want to correct, don't touch the controls.
3A set or series of similar things, especially electrical or electronic devices, grouped together in rows. the DJ had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console Example sentencesExamples - That engine featured three banks of four cylinders each.
- Two banks of four electric smoke grenade dischargers are fitted either side of the front turret.
- At the front of the vehicle he saw a bank of large video monitors that gave an astonishing real-time view of the terrain outside.
- Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills.
- My flickering flashlight swung across a bank of overhead stowage.
- There are banks of electronic gizmos of unknown origin and purpose.
- Across the room, mounted above a bank of exercise machines, are five television monitors, each set to a different station.
- By the time both beds were wheeled to the end of the hallway near a bank of elevators, Jared was able to see both kidnappers more closely.
- Whenever I saw him standing at the bank of elevators, I'd quickly turn and scurry away.
- He goes to work at his bank of electronics, and yes - twiddles some knobs.
- Check for sources of electromagnetic interference such as banks of modems on web servers.
- There was smoke in the hall near the bank of elevators.
- It is powered by a conventional electric motor with a bank of batteries to run it.
- In that grey box you see by the railroad crossing lights there is a bank of batteries.
- Off to one side of the lobby now, I spied a bank of elevators.
- It consisted of a bank of electronic tone generators and an associated array of processing devices that regulated the nature of the sounds.
- There was a pool table, a small bank of computers and a corpulent Italian speaking loudly into a mobile phone.
- Its English news studio sports a bank of TV monitors just as CNN does.
- He rounded a bank of lockers and almost got a Glock 9mm shoved up his nose.
- It is not the mast but the bank of aerials at the top that radiates microwave energy.
Synonyms array, row, line, tier, group, series - 3.1 A tier of oars.
the early ships had only twenty-five oars in each bank Example sentencesExamples - The starboard banks of oars dipped hard into the water, and the trading ship swung abruptly to the left and slowly glided to the dock.
- If there were 100 oars per bank, that would have required 15000 oarsmen.
- The standard galley or galere ordinaire, had twenty-six banks of oars per side, with five men at each oar.
4The cushion of a pool table. Example sentencesExamples - I can only stop the cue ball and take a chance on the bank shot.
- His surprise victory was completed with a well-taken length of the table bank shot on the 8 ball.
- I have been known to go to my bank shots when I am not seeing the cut shots.
- Got any pointers on the diamond system or some good way of practicing bank shots?
- Roy sank 3 more and snookered Dave but he played a bank shot potting his ball in the centre!
verbbæŋkbaNGk [with object]1Heap (a substance) into a mass or mound. the rain banked the soil up behind the gate snow was banked in humps at the roadside Example sentencesExamples - In places, snow was banked up more than 3m either side of the road.
- In Europe, particularly France, Germany, and Belgium, they cultivate a white asparagus by gradually banking the soil over the shoots as they grow.
- The muck was banked up so high in places that we couldnt rescue some of the horses until the doors had been removed from their hinges.
Synonyms pile, pile up, heap, heap up, stack, stack up, make a pile of, make a heap of, make a stack of - 1.1no object Rise or form into a mass or mound.
purple clouds banked up over the hills Example sentencesExamples - When the traffic banked up and a driver braked, car wheels could get hooked up in the ruts.
- He said there had been several instances where traffic had banked up after objects were placed on the city's train tracks.
- That rubble now lay banked up around the ship, covering perhaps two meters of the lower hull; more towards the stern.
- Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself.
- The cottage was quiet, almost buried in the drifts banked up against the walls.
- 1.2 Heap (a fire) with tightly packed fuel so that it burns slowly.
she could have made a fire and banked it with dirt Example sentencesExamples - The water was heated by the coal range and we would bank up the fire before going to bed and have plenty of hot water in the morning.
- They'd stoked and banked the fire for the night, drawn the purple drapes, and put a hot bedpan in between her sheets to warm it ready for her.
- Back in my room, I banked up the fire until I had a roaring blaze going.
- She took his hand, leading him around the room as she turned off lights, banked the fire.
- Greg, who was the only one who knew how to do it properly, had been banking the fire every night so they would have embers to start the morning's fire with.
Synonyms damp, damp down, smother, stifle - 1.3 Edge or surround with a ridge or row of something.
steps banked with pots of chrysanthemums Example sentencesExamples - She pulled her IV stand behind her as she walked over to the sofa in the corner of the room, banked by large bookcases filled with novels of all genres.
- In summer, umbrella-topped tables line a terrace banked with flowers, creating a romantic spot for dinner under the stars.
- ‘Let's have a seat shall we,’ the two walked over to some chairs that were banked along the wall and sat down.
- This addition can be as simple as a wall spigot dripping musically into a trough banked with pots of bright flowers.
2(of an aircraft or vehicle) tilt or cause to tilt sideways in making a turn. no object the plane banked as if to return to the airport with object I banked the aircraft steeply and turned Example sentencesExamples - Everyone was soon out and with a nod, a very cool nod, the pilot banked the aircraft sideways and downwards away from the wall and roared off up the gorge.
- However, panic began to set in amongst the passengers when the aircraft suddenly banked to one side before plunging 10,000 feet in four seconds.
- As the plane was banking around the city, he could clearly see the downtown section and the building his lab was in.
- Then the plane started to bank to the side and go into a rather sharp turn.
- The plane lurched up, banked to its left and started to fall off in our direction.
- At the end, I swoop up again and bank left, taking the aircraft in a steep climb over the surrounding hills.
- The aircraft banked sharply over Mangrove Cay before leveling out as the pilot made his final approach to the runway.
- As the aircraft continued to bank to about 80 deg, ground contact became more positive and the left wing started to buckle.
- Afraid the soldiers had seen the package, Ian ducked down instinctively, but the aircraft banked steeply and slid down into the valley.
- The plane had to turn and come right, banking around the tower.
- He took over the flight controls and banked the airplane to the right.
- Most aircraft except for helicopters will bank to make a turn.
- The plane felt fine, no observable damage, so I banked around and went in for another quick pass.
- The fun was over, and I slowed and banked up to a safer altitude.
- I watched from the rooftop as the the aircraft banked and swooped and burst into bright flames which showered to the ground like fireworks.
- He gently banked his aircraft forty-five degrees west to make a wide circle around the burning vehicles.
- He said the plane banked steeply on its approach.
- He performed a tactical approach to the airfield, banking the plane 45 degrees in a tight downward spiral to the left.
- The engine thunder came to them as the plane banked away over the sea.
- The aircraft carrier banked sharply, turning to port, tilting the whole world thirty degrees.
Synonyms tilt, lean, tip, slant, incline, angle, slope, list, camber, pitch, dip, cant, be at an angle, put at an angle - 2.1with object Build (a road, railroad, or sports track) higher at the outer edge of a bend to facilitate fast cornering.
Example sentencesExamples - It doesn't have as much clearance underneath it for this kind of a banked race track.
- Cycling on banked tracks is one of the oldest forms of the sport, dating back to the track-racing boom of the 1890s in Europe.
- In Japan, where top riders earn fortunes, the tracks are less steeply banked and they race on all-weather asphalt, rather than wooden surfaces.
- On to an indicated 190 mph and I have exceeded my personal best; now the banked bend approaches and we are gaining on the car in front, so I have to slow.
- This event features four racers at a time taking a downhill course full of jumps, turns and banked corners in a race to the finish.
- And imagine that situation not on a flat highway, but on a narrow, one-groove racetrack with banked corners.
- The teammate then moves to the top of the circular banked track and coasts while he recovers for his next stint.
- It really all depends on what you're wanting to do and how banked the track is.
- One of the corners is also going to be slightly banked, which will be interesting.
- Exeter is a track a lot of riders don't like because it is very fast and banked.
- The 1.51-mile infield road course includes part of the banked oval track used for NASCAR stock-car races.
- Cyclists contest a variety of events on an inside oval track banked at 42 degrees.
- The tight, banked bends on indoor tracks mean a tall athlete with a long stride length will struggle in the 200m and 400m.
- Since the tracks are banked, the advantage usually goes to the driver on the inside - the outside car is more vulnerable.
- These turns are usually banked, constructed at an angle, which allows the cyclist to ride in a straight line with the track banking navigating the direction.
- Confidence grew as riders got used to the banked track, but the day was sadly marred by a serious injury to one of the Lancaster CC contingent who landed heavily on the hard surface in the track centre.
- The banked corners are a feature of the Indianapolis circuit and are a one-off in Formula One.
- It cost £3.5m to build and adjoins the Sportcity indoor facility which boasts a four-lane, banked 200m track.
- The counterclockwise racing of the greyhounds on a banked track may have predisposed their uphill foot to increased stress.
- Five miles of twisting, turning, banked track with just enough adrenaline to keep you interested but not enough to make you throw up.
3North American (in pool and other games) play (a ball) so that it rebounds off a surface such as a backboard or cushion. Example sentencesExamples - I've reverse banked many an eight ball to give my opponent a ‘hopeless’ feeling.
- You can shoot the safe by banking the 7-ball to the center of the rail, but the better choice is not to let your opponent shoot at all.
- He banks the seven just to show off.
Origin Middle English: from Old Norse bakki, of Germanic origin; related to bench. The senses ‘set of things in rows’ and ‘tier of oars’ are from French banc, of the same ultimate origin. nounbæŋkbaNGk 1A financial establishment that invests money deposited by customers, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency. I paid the money straight into my bank Example sentencesExamples - Portfolio investment also includes deposits in banks and financial investment in government or private securities.
- Retained earnings are just as much money as a bank loan or new equity.
- My current bank deposit account interest rate has just been cut again.
- It also included the interest rates on the bank loans that the winner would take.
- This amount of money could be supplemented by a loan received from a bank - high interest, but easily accessible as a last option.
- Should I be looking for a bank loan or alternative finance, perhaps through an outside investor?
- It is common sense that citizens will not deposit money in banks for such minimal interest earnings.
- To make the investments Helmersen borrowed large sums of money from Danish banks and financial institutions.
- ‘Because of the exchange risk, banks assume that local currency loans are best,’ Rumenov added.
- That begs the question as to whether our money would be safer under the mattress or in a bank deposit account than invested in shares, unit trusts or pension schemes.
- We've regularly - almost religiously - deposited money into our bank savings account.
- The easiest way to do so will be to deposit the money into banks or invest it in stock and bond funds and life-insurance policies.
- Most people have a current account and most banks pay virtually no interest on this money.
- When you are financing such investments, bank charges and any interest payments are typically deductible in the year in which they are paid.
- The banks must pay a substantial portion of the Army escort service in light of the huge profits they are making, the Minister said.
- There is no denying that in Zambia many such establishments, especially the banks, operate money markets that are under serious pecuniary constraints.
- His unorthodox government has not helped to attract investors, and foreign banks lowered corporate credit ratings for new loans.
- However, there was one clear distinction between giving and taking interest on loans and bank deposits.
- The company will finance half of the planned investment through a bank loan.
- It's in how the money is spent - long after the offerings are counted and safely in the bank.
- 1.1 A stock of something available for use when required.
building a bank of test items is the responsibility of teachers Example sentencesExamples - Already artists, scientists, musicians and communities have together created a bank of songs, stories, choirs and artworks.
- The number of eggs stored in the egg bank varied within and among species but was usually lower in the temporary pond species.
- Also, these figures are based on me submitting articles to various article banks on the Internet myself.
- Time banks, where members build up credits by giving up an hour of their time to provide a service for another person in the scheme, are a more recent phenomenon.
- We are also concerned about the emergence of essay banks on the Internet.
- For an egg bank to maintain its value as a historical record, the sediments should have little or no disturbance.
- The eye bank is accessible round the clock through a dedicated hotline 1081.
- A job bank computer is also available at the office and helps those looking for work to see what is available.
- Further, tissue banks are only required to test donated human tissue for HIV and hepatitis viruses.
- The organization now has an image bank of stock images that clients can view and contact the photographers.
- That is a good idea, and Work and Income is ensuring that its job bank is available across the country and provides a wider range of information.
- The value of the seed bank in the species pool at GCB was estimated to be greater than any other species establishment mode.
- Each question in the test bank is referenced to its original source in the textbook, making it easy to verify or modify questions and answers.
- The building settles into contours, spreading out horizontally over a vast buried chamber - the seed bank itself.
- Xenografts derived from animal sources might also be used and could be stored in tissue banks for use when required.
- There is a bank of volunteer drivers available although many groups prefer to use their own.
- For example, seed dormancy, leading to the production of soil seed banks, allows escape from unfavourable conditions in time rather than in space.
- These banks are maintained for all those in need, not to store blood for any particular potential recipient.
- Many were tested on the huge bank of prepared specimen slides Joyce had assembled in the deep freezes in Newcastle.
Synonyms store, reserve, accumulation, stock, stockpile, inventory, supply, pool, fund, cache, hoard, deposit - 1.2 A site or receptacle where something may be stored.
the computer's memory bank Example sentencesExamples - With two pawns safely in the bank, the rest should only be a matter of technique - something Svidler has in abundance.
- Here in Montreal, pretty much all the museums rent out work, and the Canadian Government actually has an art lending bank.
- 1.3 A site or receptacle where something may be deposited for recycling.
Example sentencesExamples - A paper recycle bank is placed at the amenity site.
- The public is also reminded not to leave bags or boxes at the recycling banks.
- Limerick Community Council has advised that recycling banks are now in place at the car park at Twohig's Supervalu, Killarney Road.
- The other new recycling banks are located in Aughagower, Manulla and Westport.
- A total of 20 shoe recycling banks have been introduced by South Lakeland District Council across the district to encourage more people to put their old shoes to a good use.
- He said it had also been agreed to have a book bank at the site.
- But can, paper and textile banks will remain at the site near the Buck Inn unless a new home can be found for all the recycling bins.
- To find out more, or for details of your nearest bottle or paper banks, contact the city council's special recycling helpline on 01904 636000.
- The Salvation Army is hoping it will be able to re-use many of the items deposited in its recycling banks.
- Under the scheme, people take bottles to the banks for subsequent re-cycling.
- There are also recycling banks for glass, paper and clothing as well as an area for fridges and freezers.
- On an ongoing basis, there are bottle and can banks near the library, so you can recycle those materials as often as suits your needs.
- There has been an alarming increase in illegal dumping at the recycling banks at Merville.
- The provision of ten recycling banks was commended by the judging panel but they saw weed control as a problem at Barrack Street near the junction with the Tullow Road.
- It is first time that aluminium foil has been collected at the council's recycling centres, though Eden Community Recycling already has banks at its own sites.
- People can dispose of it in a paper bank or household recycling centres.
- If you do not compost at home the shredded paper can be put in the paper bank at your nearest recycling facility.
- Christmas cards should not be put in recycling boxes or paper banks.
- The council capitulated and had the paper bank moved to a ‘safer’ site - the car park near Acomb Park shops.
- Villages currently not part of the kerbside recycling scheme all have access to paper recycling banks.
- 1.4the bank The store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games.
Example sentencesExamples - If everyone has played and there is money in the bank, the banker deals a new hand in the opposite direction from the hand that has just ended.
- The bank can also change hands after any hand if the existing banker wishes to sell the bank to another player at a mutually agreed price.
- 1.5 The person holding the store of money or tokens in a game; the banker.
Example sentencesExamples - Here the bank would take half the money that had been staked on the paired cards.
- Agreed, Mark, they do charge a five percent commission when you bet the bank hand in baccarat, but only when you win.
- Additionally, you can only be the banker for one hand, after which the bank reverts to the dealer for the next hand.
- 1.6US informal A large amount of money.
those entrepreneurs are raking in some serious bank the estate makes bank off the sale of merchandise
verbbæŋkbaNGk [with object]1Deposit (money or valuables) in a bank. Example sentencesExamples - ‘If they banked that money the government would have cut their grant for the following year,’ John explained.
- All we need now is for people to place the boxes during the last two weeks of February then collect them in at the beginning of April and bank the money.
- A £10,000 cheque will be banked by Sunday's victors from the FA's prize fund with the prospect of much more to follow if Saturday's draw proves favourable.
- Crackdowns by the Criminal Assets Bureau have made criminals reluctant to bank their money in the republic.
- Obviously, we banked the money because we didn't know whether or not it was a donation.
- The first recommendation I would make is that the Minister stops banking the money that he thinks he will get from the department, because he is very unlikely to get it.
- By the time the cheque has been banked, the PO box has closed and the ‘company’ has moved on.
- This includes people required to conduct collections in local supermarkets, count and bank the money.
- The money is banked in the form of commuter credits, which employees can use to buy bike parts at a 10% discount.
- The only problem is, normal economic dealings use high-powered supercomputers and economic analysts to make sure that the money is banked correctly.
- You filled in various documents of a minor nature, banked money and signed cheques.
- It was only obvious to me because I have been banking money for many years, but I think nine out of ten people would be fooled by it.
- Street kids in Nepal are now being given the opportunity to bank their money, so that bigger kids won't beat them up and steal it.
- Minimise idle cash balances by banking money quickly and seeking best investment rates.
- It was only too clear that a few of them were simply banking the salary from the Observer and then getting extra work from TV, radio and other publications.
- We need people to collect in local supermarkets and count and bank the money.
- His vendor will then bank the money - and it may be loaned to someone else.
- That was replaced by ‘bills of exchange’ except that there is evidence that the money was banked for the $10 initial capital of each of the funds.
- Sell our home now, bank our profit, and rent a property until the local market looks attractive once more.
- Rather we mean those who spend the morning banking their dividend cheques and the afternoon at the gym, on the tennis court or at the club.
Synonyms deposit, pay in have an account at, deposit one's money with, use, be a customer of, deal with, do business with - 1.1no object Have an account at a particular bank.
he did not bank with the old family banks Example sentencesExamples - We regret very deeply the anxiety it will cause a large number of patients who have banked with us.
- Having recently arrived from the UK, where I banked with HSBC, I could see many ways for the Bank of Bermuda to improve their service.
- I would still like to say, proudly, that I bank with the Bank of Scotland.
- I have banked with Cahoot for several years, and this incident will not change my opinion about the value of online banking.
- Around a third of people have banked with the same institution for more than 20 years and almost half have stayed loyal to the same account for life.
- It's possible these days to bank with an institution for years and only enter a branch once.
- The majority of these respondents now banked with a non-bank financial institution or a community bank.
- It is usual for the parents to bank with the financial institution granting the mortgage and they may be asked to have part of the guarantee on deposit.
- I bank with Alliance & Leicester, which offers travel insurance as part of its account service.
- And oh no, the poor bank had to give out some free coffee to someone who doesn't bank with them.
- Unfortunately most of us bank with the four main banks and we just can't be bothered to switch.
- Mr Gibson also checked Bryant family accounts at Lismore after I mentioned that my father banked with the ANZ.
- The two farmers banked with the Limavady branch of Ulster Bank where a Mr Sparks and a Mr Wallace were manager and assistant manager respectively.
- Consider getting your card through the financial institution you bank with.
- Does this mean that in the future we will all have to bank with ‘The Bank of Safeway’ in order to buy groceries?
- I bank with Coutts and I have a personal banker who is really good.
- Early stage and start up companies that bank with AIB will qualify for a 30 per cent discount on Sage products.
- Lance Armstrong has the friendship of the President of the United States, an adoring, bright-eyed family and millions banked with Chase Manhattan.
- Like my father, I've always banked with Barclays.
- In fact, the newly-merged charity Cancer Research UK continues to bank with the Royal Bank of Scotland among others.
- 1.2informal (especially of a competitor in a game or race) win or earn (a sum of money)
he banked $100,000 for a hole-in-one Example sentencesExamples - Like Locke, Rodriguez also banked the most cash in his category, earning $523,445.
- This suggests that South Africans are not banking any of the gains being offered from our interest rate bonanza.
- Nigel thankfully revealed a year later that had he cooled his affair with Baltimore and had banked some ‘significant gains’.
- A candidate who can bank those sums is not only a threat to win, but a threat to disrupt the rules by which campaigns are run, paid for, and won.
- They moved to Nevada, built a beautiful new dream home, which they paid off completely, and still banked a hefty sum after taxes.
- 1.3 Store (something, especially blood, tissue, or sperm) for future use.
the sperm is banked or held in storage for the following spring Example sentencesExamples - Previously banked cord blood samples were identified for both patients, however were too small to be used.
- Hunter will undergo a CT scan to assess the extent of his cancer on Tuesday, and also said he planned to bank sperm before beginning his chemotherapy.
- CCF has been collecting male cheetahs since 1996 and has sperm banked over 90 male cheetahs.
- Many in the field of reproductive medicine shared his hopes and fears as well as his fascination with the eugenic potential of sperm banking.
- Program review should be performed at least annually to ensure ongoing compliance with regulations and safe tissue banking practices.
- The sperm they banked would be the difference between having a family or not now that radiation therapy has destroyed their body's healthy cells.
- It would also help men too ill to bank sperm before chemotherapy.
- Tissue and bone banking poses significant risks to recipients if errors are made.
- It is known that we can safely collect sperm samples for sperm banking up to twenty days after the start of chemotherapy.
- Administrative personnel should be familiar with this document and its application to the components of tissue banking performed.
- He was a very successful business man who turned to sperm banking, and he realized he had to sell to this customers.
- We typically recommend checking every 3 months, and we offer sperm banking based upon the quality of the sample.
- There are smaller satellite clinics that might do limited sperm banking.
- In spite of what my logical brain was telling me, I think there was a nagging doubt that if I did not bank some sperm I might later regret the decision.
- Part of the work we do as a charity is to reassure men that they can have sperm banked, but now there will obviously be a fear that it won't work.
- A third patient explained that, like me, he had no desire to father children but felt that by banking sperm he was in some way ‘preserving his masculinity.’
- Trevor, 42, an engineer, banked the sperm in 1979, at the age of 17.
- My feeling is that the patient should be adequately counseled regarding the risks and benefits as well as the possibility of sperm banking.
Phrases 1(in gambling) win more money than is held by the bank. Example sentencesExamples - On the drive home, I kept chuckling and whistling, ‘He's the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’!
- He breaks the bank, but when he offers Paulina the money to buy off the marquis, she is ashamed and hurls it back at him in disgust.
- 1.1informal usually with negativeCost more than one can afford.
Christmas need not break the bank Example sentencesExamples - The cost of fitted shelves and units can break the bank.
- You could still afford an exclusive bridal service without breaking the bank!
- One might argue that some of the existing members just wouldn't be able to afford it but would £1 per week really break the bank?
- Four important players were making next to nothing, allowing the team to win without breaking the bank.
- However, a week in the fjords in summer or cross-country skiing in winter doesn't have to break the bank, and many tour operators offer affordable packages.
Phrasal Verbs Base one's hopes or confidence on. they can bank on my winning 25 games next year Example sentencesExamples - Talk about such novel ventures and you sure can bank on the support of Revathy Menon, film actress.
- China is also hoping to bank on the region's proximity to Japan and Korea.
- This means taking measures that do not bank on doctoring figures and introducing cosmetic measures, as was done in the case of poverty reduction figures.
- Mr Burr, who has already invested £250,000 of his own money in the project, was banking on Didcot power station buying his processed crop.
- Now he is one of only 11 players to earn a central contract and England are banking on him to be a central figure in their World Cup plans.
- Spice 21, nice though the food was, never seemed overly busy whenever I walked past, so it would seem the new owners are banking on the buffet to bring in the business.
- The number seven seed will have her work cut out against seed Fionna Geaves, but like Taylor will be banking on the support of the home crowd.
- His 12 league goals have earned a huge chunk of the 25 survival points they have already amassed and they are banking on him securing a fair few more before the season is out.
- Other parts of Scotland will see their fire cover reduced even more substantially as the government banks on the country's 4,000 part-time and volunteer firefighters to resist the strike call.
- I beat the pre-holiday rush to the temple of gadgets to buy some paint and ended up buying a bargain hammock instead - but I'm not banking on much relaxation.
- The company is banking on competing with Cisco based on its laser-beam focus on the cable market.
- But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation.
- Others were banking on more modest pensions, such as £16,000 or £7,000.
- Microsoft no doubt knows this, but is presumably banking on most users going along with the process, as they've tended to do in the past.
- I have had them before in the past and never done anything about it so I'm banking on the fact that as I'm still here, it's just something that happens now and then.
- Strong trial results sent the Nasdaq-quoted shares flying last week, causing pain to a bunch of short-sellers who were banking on a price collapse.
- The space could be let for £5,000 - £6,000 a year, but it is the capital growth that investors are banking on.
- Red Hat and Mandrake are clearly banking on support contracts and installations of their advanced server products to generate revenue.
- Instead, it says simply, ‘Trust us,’ and banks on our fear of terror and ambivalence toward the rules of justice to ensure we do exactly that without asking too many hard questions.
- Shoutmail is banking on convenience and ease of use to expand its user base and to attract advertisers in the process.
- I'm still banking on a decent turnaround, though, based on his overall history.
- Dr Greenspan professes to being ‘deeply distressed’ to learn accountants are ratifying dodgy figures because he always banked on their integrity.
- To achieve a winning season, the Rockies are banking on a return to their Blake Street Bomber days.
- Instead, Microsoft are banking on the triple-core to handle those kinds of calculations.
- Terry Dolan is banking on the York City faithful to raise the roof at Filbert Street and roar the Minstermen on to success in tomorrow's FA Cup clash with Leicester City.
Synonyms rely on, depend on, count on, place reliance on, bargain on, plan on, reckon on, calculate on, presume on
Origin Late 15th century (originally denoting a money dealer's table): from French banque or Italian banca, from medieval Latin banca, bancus, of Germanic origin; related to bank and bench. |