Commentary: A money-holding institution.
Examples:
The bank holds the mortgage on my house.
I took my money out of the bank, and put it into stocks.
John switched from Chase Bank to PNC Bank.
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Commentary: Refers very narrowly to the building where banking takes place.
Examples:
The bank is on the corner or Nassau and Witherspoon.
It takes me ten minutes to walk to the bank.
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Commentary: Land that slopes downward, especially near a body of water or on a racetrack.
Examples:
I sat on the river bank and watched the currents.
We pulled the canoe up the bank.
There's a bank on this turn to reduce centrifugal force.
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Commentary: A stock or reserve, usually for emergencies.
Examples:
The Red Cross created a blood bank for disaster relief.
They set up a food bank for the flood victims.
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Commentary: A kind of box, usually with a slot on the top.
Examples:
John smashed his piggy bank to buy comic books.
You have to put a quarter in the coin bank when you swear.
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Commentary: An arrangement of similar things, usually in rows or tiers.
Examples:
He operated the bank of switches.
A bank of telephones is standing by.
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Commentary: The amount of money owned by a gambling house. Probably only the expression "break the bank" applies.
Examples:
He's hoping to break the bank at Monte Carlo.
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Commentary: A land feature, a large amount of something on the ground.
Examples:
We climbed the sand bank with some difficulty.
A huge bank of earth lay between us.
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Commentary: The act of a plane heading downward.
Examples:
The plane went into a steep bank.
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Commentary: Use this sense when you can't see a distinction between the first and second sense.
Examples:
The people working at the bank turned me down for a loan.
I cashed my check at the bank.
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Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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