bank
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈbæŋk/|[ˈbæŋk]|/ˈbaŋk/
美 /ˈbæŋk/|[ˈbæŋk]|/ˈbæːŋk/|[ˈbæːŋk]|[ˈbeːŋk]
英文释义
名词 n.
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An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
— Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
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A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
— a bank of switches
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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
— Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
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A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
— Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
- A branch office of such an institution.
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An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
— the banks of Newfoundland
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A kind of table used by printers.
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A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
— Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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An incline, a hill.
— This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
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A mass of clouds.
— The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
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Money; profit.
— Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
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A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
— blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
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The ground at the top of a shaft.
— Ores are brought to bank.
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A device used to store coins or currency.
— If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
动词 v.
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To arrange or order in a row.
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To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
— He banked with Barclays.
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To put into a bank.
— I’m going to bank the money.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
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To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
— Johnny banked some coke for me.
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To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
— to bank sand
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To provide banking services to.
— They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
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To form a bank; to gather in masses.
— […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
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To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
— Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
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To pass by the banks of.
— Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
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To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
— Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
bankable
banked
banker
bank on
debank
double-banked
banking
Agnes Bank
Almondbank
Astwood Bank
at bank
bank and bank
bank beaver
bank cod
bank cress
banked slalom
bank-fish
bank fishing
bankhead
bank-high
bank-hook
bankless
bankline
bank-martin
bank pool
bank-run
Banks
Banks Creek
bankside
banksman
Banks Pocket
bank swallow
Bank Top
bank up
bank vole
banky
beetle bank
Black Bank
Christon Bank
clay-bank
Clay Banks
cloud bank
Clydebank
creekbank
Cut Bank
cutbank
Daisy Bank
Dogger Bank
Duffieldbank
earthbank
embank
Eskbank
fog bank
fogbank
footbank
Galabank
Georges Bank
Grand Bank
Grand Banks
hedgebank
Hest Bank
imbank
Jodrell Bank
Kenton Bank Foot
Kents Bank
Lawley Bank
left bank
loading bank
Lovely Banks
Maoribank
mole-bank
Moss Bank
Normandy bank
overbank
oyster bank
oysterbank
peat bank
phone-bank
Quarry Bank
Red Bank
Redbanks
right bank
river bank
riverbank
Russian bank
sandbank
seabank
snowbank
South Bank
spoil bank
stopbank
streambank
Taiwan Banks
Ten Mile Bank
turf bank
Tweedbank
unbank
warping bank
West Bank
bank-and-turn indicator
turn-and-bank indicator
double-bank
filter bank
filterbank
optical bank
phone bank
Bank Royal
Common Bank
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).
词源 2
From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
词源 3
From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).
词源 4
Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
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