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Bank vs. Camber — What's the Difference?

Bank vs. Camber — What's the Difference?

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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.

Camber

A slightly arched surface, as of a road, a ship's deck, an airfoil, or a ski.

Bank

A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds; a heap
A bank of thunderclouds.

Camber

The condition of having an arched surface.

Bank

A steep natural incline.
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Camber

A setting of automobile wheels in which they are closer together at the bottom than at the top.

Bank

An artificial embankment.

Camber

To arch or cause to arch slightly.

Bank

The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.

Camber

A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.

Bank

A large elevated area of a sea floor.

Camber

The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.

Bank

(Games) The cushion of a billiard or pool table.

Camber

(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.

Bank

The lateral inward tilting, as of a motor vehicle or an aircraft, in turning or negotiating a curve.

Camber

(automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.

Bank

A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.

Camber

(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.

Bank

The offices or building in which such an establishment is located.

Camber

(nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.

Bank

The funds of a gambling establishment.

Camber

To curve upwards in the middle.

Bank

The funds held by a dealer or banker in certain games, especially gambling games.

Camber

To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.

Bank

The reserve pieces, cards, chips, or play money in some games, such as poker, from which the players may draw.

Camber

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

Bank

A supply or stock for future or emergency use
A grain bank.

Camber

An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.

Bank

(Medicine) A supply of human fluids or tissues, such as blood, sperm, or skin, that is stored in a facility for future use.

Camber

To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.

Bank

A place of safekeeping or storage
A computer's memory bank.

Camber

To curve upward.

Bank

A set of elevators.

Camber

A slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)

Bank

A row of keys on a keyboard.

Camber

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

Bank

A bench for rowers in a galley.

Camber

The alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top

Bank

A row of oars in a galley.

Camber

Curve upward in the middle

Bank

(Printing) The lines of type under a headline.

Bank

To border or protect with a ridge or embankment.

Bank

To pile up; amass
Banked earth along the wall.

Bank

To cover (a fire), as with ashes or fresh fuel, to ensure continued low burning.

Bank

To construct with a slope rising to the outside edge
The turns on the racetrack were steeply banked.

Bank

To tilt (an aircraft) laterally and inwardly in flight.

Bank

To tilt (a motor vehicle) laterally and inwardly when negotiating a curve.

Bank

(Games) To strike (a billiard ball) so that it rebounds from the cushion of the table.

Bank

(Sports) To play (a ball or puck) in such a way as to make it glance off a surface, such as a backboard or wall.

Bank

To rise in or take the form of a bank.

Bank

To tilt an aircraft or a motor vehicle laterally when turning.

Bank

To deposit in a bank.

Bank

To store for future use.

Bank

To transact business with a bank or maintain a bank account.

Bank

To operate a bank.

Bank

To arrange or set up in a row
"Every street was banked with purple-blooming trees" (Doris Lessing).

Bank

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

Bank

(countable) A branch office of such an institution.

Bank

(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

Money; profit.

Bank

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

Bank

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
Blood bank; sperm bank; data bank

Bank

(countable) 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.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

(rail) An incline, a hill.

Bank

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
Ores are brought to bank.

Bank

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A bank of switches
A bank of pay phones

Bank

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

Bank

(computing) 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.

Bank

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Bank

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

Bank

A bench or seat for judges in court.

Bank

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

Bank

A kind of table used by printers.

Bank

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

Bank

(uncountable) slang for money

Bank

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

Bank

(transitive) To put into a bank.
I'm going to bank the money.

Bank

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
Johnny banked some coke for me.

Bank

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

To pass by the banks of.

Bank

To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Bank

To arrange or order in a row.

Bank

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.

Bank

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

Bank

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.

Bank

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

Bank

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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.

Bank

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.

Bank

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

Bank

A sort of table used by printers.

Bank

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

Bank

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.

Bank

The building or office used for banking purposes.

Bank

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.

Bank

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.

Bank

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.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

To pass by the banks of.

Bank

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.

Bank

To deposit in a bank.

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

Bank

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

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

Bank

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

Bank

A building in which commercial banking is transacted;
The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon

Bank

An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers;
He operated a bank of switches

Bank

A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home;
The coin bank was empty

Bank

A long ridge or pile;
A huge bank of earth

Bank

The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games;
He tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo

Bank

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

Bank

A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning);
The plane went into a steep bank

Bank

Tip laterally;
The pilot had to bank the aircraft

Bank

Enclose with a bank;
Bank roads

Bank

Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank;
Where do you bank in this town?

Bank

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling

Bank

Be in the banking business

Bank

Put into a bank account;
She deposites her paycheck every month

Bank

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning;
Bank a fire

Bank

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

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