bank
/ˈbæŋk/ noun C2- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. · a bank of switches· a bank of pay phones
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- 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.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
Plural banks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
“I told him my bank account was at his service.
His opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk.
Other matches
- bank An institution where one can place and borrow m... A1
- bank To arrange or order in a row. A2
- bank To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. C2
- bank To deal with a bank or financial institution, o... C2
- bank An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. C2
- bank A bench, as for rowers in a galley C2
- bank on To rely on someone or something
- bank up To press a mound of something against something...
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