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  1. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
  2. (bank) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
  3. (bank) tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
  4. (bank) enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
  5. (bank) depository financial institution: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
  6. (bank) a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
  7. Bank pool is a Pocket billiards game that has as it most fundamental requirement, that all scoring shots in the game to be made by a called ball off a and into a called pocket. ...
  8. Banks is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,286 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 1,435 residents.
  9. Banks is a surname, and may refer to: * Antonio Banks, American wrestler * Antonio Banks (American football), defensive back * Brad Banks, American football player * Carl Banks, American football player * Chip Banks, American football player * Denis Banks, Australian rules footballer * Ernie ...
  10. The Banks is the name given to the current mixed-use project being developed on the land between the Paul Brown Stadium and the Great American Ballpark along the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  11. A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly or through capital markets. A bank connects customers with capital deficits to customers with capital surpluses.
  12. BANK was an artists’ group active in London during the 1990s. Their most significant contribution to UK contemporary art was a series of curated group shows, often with comical, and sometimes offensive, titles. ...
  13. (bank) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs; A branch office of such an institution; An underwriter or controller of a card game, also banque; A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods; To deal with a ...
  14. (banking) The business of managing a bank; The occupation of managing or working in a bank; A horizontal turn
  15. (Bank) A depository institution chartered under federal and state regulations that offers services such as checking accounts, savings accounts, consumer loans, safe-deposit boxes, investment services and automatic payment of bills.
  16. (Bank) Any sloped area under 90 degrees.
  17. (Bank) To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.
  18. (Bank) a business that keeps money for customers, makes loans and provides other money-related services.
  19. (Bank) the rising ground that borders a stream, pond or other body of water
  20. Actually, "transformer bank" or "capacitor bank"; a group of transformers or capacitors connected together.
  21. (bank) Also called the house, the person responsible for distributing chips, keeping track of the buy-ins, and paying winners at the end of the game.
  22. (Bank) a business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.
  23. (Bank) a row of video slot machines.
  24. (Bank) This refers to the house or the place that is in charge of running the poker game at the table. It is the house that will hand out the chips, change cash into chips and run the game in an effort to keep things fair. They also pay winners at the end of the game.
  25. (bank) usually the steep part of the river channel above the usual water level, but it can also include the same section below the water level.