Bank vs. Berm

Banknoun

An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

Bermnoun

A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope

Banknoun

A branch office of such an institution.

Bermnoun

A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath

Banknoun

An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

Bermnoun

A terrace formed by wave action along a beach

Banknoun

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

Bermnoun

A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation

Banknoun

(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

Bermnoun

A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification

Banknoun

money; profit

Bermnoun

A strip of land between a street and sidewalk

Banknoun

In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

Bermverb

To provide something with a berm

Banknoun

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

‘blood bank; sperm bank; data bank’;

Bermnoun

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

Banknoun

A device used to store coins or currency.

‘If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.’;

Bermnoun

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

Banknoun

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

Bermnoun

a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope

Banknoun

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

‘the banks of Newfoundland’;

Bermnoun

narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

Banknoun

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

Bermnoun

a flat strip of land, raised bank, or terrace bordering a river or canal.

Banknoun

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

Bermnoun

a path or grass strip beside a road.

Banknoun

(rail transport) An incline, a hill.

Bermnoun

an artificial ridge or embankment, such as one built as a defence against tanks

‘berms of shovelled earth’;

Banknoun

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

‘The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.’;

Bermnoun

a narrow space between a ditch and the base of a parapet.

Banknoun

(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Berm

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating areas in a vertical way, especially part-way up a long slope. It can serve as a terrace road, track, path, a fortification line, a border/separation barrier for navigation, good drainage, industry, or other purposes.

Banknoun

(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

Banknoun

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

‘Ores are brought to bank.’;

Banknoun

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

‘a bank of switches’; ‘a bank of pay phones’;

Banknoun

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Banknoun

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

Banknoun

A bench or seat for judges in court.

Banknoun

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

Banknoun

A kind of table used by printers.

Banknoun

(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Banknoun

(uncountable) slang for money

Bankverb

(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

‘He banked with Barclays.’;

Bankverb

(transitive) To put into a bank.

‘I'm going to bank the money.’;

Bankverb

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

‘Johnny banked some coke for me.’;

Bankverb

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

Bankverb

(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

Bankverb

(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

‘to bank sand’;

Bankverb

(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

Bankverb

(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Bankverb

To pass by the banks of.

Bankverb

To arrange or order in a row.

Banknoun

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.

‘They cast up a bank against the city.’;

Banknoun

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

Banknoun

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

‘Tiber trembled underneath her banks.’;

Banknoun

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

Banknoun

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Banknoun

The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous.

Banknoun

A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.

Banknoun

The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.

Banknoun

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

‘Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweepNeptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.’;

Banknoun

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

Banknoun

A sort of table used by printers.

Banknoun

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Banknoun

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.

Banknoun

The building or office used for banking purposes.

Banknoun

A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.

‘Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.’;

Banknoun

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

Banknoun

In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.

Banknoun

a place where something is stored and held available for future use;

Bankverb

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Bankverb

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

Bankverb

To pass by the banks of.

Bankverb

To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.

Bankverb

To deposit in a bank.

Bankverb

To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

Bankverb

To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

Bankverb

To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; - said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like.

Banknoun

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’;

Banknoun

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’;

Banknoun

a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)

Banknoun

a building in which commercial banking is transacted;

‘the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon’;

Banknoun

an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers;

‘he operated a bank of switches’;

Banknoun

a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home;

‘the coin bank was empty’;

Banknoun

a long ridge or pile;

‘a huge bank of earth’;

Banknoun

the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games;

‘he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo’;

Banknoun

a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

Banknoun

a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning);

‘the plane went into a steep bank’;

Bankverb

tip laterally;

‘the pilot had to bank the aircraft’;

Bankverb

enclose with a bank;

‘bank roads’;

Bankverb

do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank;

‘Where do you bank in this town?’;

Bankverb

act as the banker in a game or in gambling

Bankverb

be in the banking business

Bankverb

put into a bank account;

‘She deposites her paycheck every month’;

Bankverb

cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning;

‘bank a fire’;

Bankverb

have confidence or faith in;

‘We can trust in God’; ‘Rely on your friends’; ‘bank on your good education’; ‘I swear by my grandmother's recipes’;

Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.