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Bank: Definition and part of speech

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Bank

  1. n. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  2. n. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
  3. n. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
  4. n. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
  5. n. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
  6. n. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  7. n. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  8. n. A sort of table used by printers.
  9. n. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  10. n. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
  11. 1n. 1 A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  12. 1n. 1 A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Band: Definition and part of speech

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Band

  1. v. t. Pledge; security.
  2. v. t. A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
  3. v. t. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
  4. v. t. In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
  5. v. t. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  6. v. t. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  7. v. t. Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
  8. v. t. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
  9. v. t. A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
  10. v. t. A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.
  11. 1v. t. 1 Pledge; security.
  12. 1v. t. 1 A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bandage: Definition and part of speech

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Bandage

  1. n. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
  2. n. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.