bank

  • 101bank — [12] The various disparate meanings of modern English bank all come ultimately from the same source, Germanic *bangk , but they have taken different routes to reach us. Earliest to arrive was ‘ridge, mound, bordering slope’, which came via a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 102bank — 1. pot. Coś jest u kogoś jak w banku «coś jest u kogoś pewne, bezpieczne»: Możesz mu to dać na przechowanie, u niego będzie jak w banku (...). Roz tel 1996. 2. pot. (Mieć coś) jak w banku «mieć coś zapewnione»: Znajdę go! Słowo! Masz to jak w… …

    Słownik frazeologiczny

  • 103bank — 1) n American money. A teenage vogue word of 1987 and 1988. The term was picked up by British rap, hip hop and acid house enthusiasts and was still in use in 2004. ► Got any bank? 2) adj American inferior, unpleasant. A fashionable pejo rative in …

    Contemporary slang

  • 104bank on — PHRASAL VERB If you bank on something happening, you expect it to happen and rely on it happening. [V P n] The Berlin government is banking on the Olympics to save the city money... [V P n] He s not still there, I suppose? I wouldn t bank on that …

    English dictionary

  • 105bank — i. The angle formed by the wings of an aircraft relative to the horizon. Also called a bank angle. ii. The attitude of an aircraft when its lateral axis is inclined with respect to the horizon; the position normally assumed by aircraft when… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 106bank — I 1. noun 1) the banks of Lake Michigan Syn: edge, shore, side, embankment, levee, margin, verge, brink 2) a grassy bank Syn: slope, rise, incline …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 107bank up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms bank up : present tense I/you/we/they bank up he/she/it banks up present participle banking up past tense banked up past participle banked up 1) to make something into a pile Soil was banked up against the… …

    English dictionary

  • 108bank-up — /ˈbæŋk ʌp/ (say bangk up) noun an accumulation: the strike will cause a bank up of mail. {derived from phrasal verb bank up. See bank1 (def. 13) …

  • 109bank- — Ⅰ s. bank Ⅰ germ.?, Verb; nhd. schlagen, klopfen; Ⅱ s. bank Ⅱ germ.?, Verb; s. bak Ⅱ; …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 110Bank — bankas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. bank vok. Bank, f rus. банк, m pranc. banque, f …

    Automatikos terminų žodynas