Bank vs. Verge — What's the Difference?

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.

An edge or margin; a border.

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

(Architecture) The edge of the tiling that projects over a roof gable.

A steep natural incline.

Chiefly British A grassy border, as along a road.

An artificial embankment.

The point beyond which an action, state, or condition is likely to begin or occur; the brink

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

A rod, wand, or staff carried as an emblem of authority or office.

A large elevated area of a sea floor.

The spindle of a balance wheel in a clock or watch, especially such a spindle in a clock with vertical escapement.

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

The male organ of copulation in certain mollusks.

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

To approach the nature or condition of something specified; come close. Used with on

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

To be on the edge or border

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

To slope or incline.

The funds of a gambling establishment.

To tend to move in a particular direction

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

To pass or merge gradually

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

A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

A supply or stock for future or emergency use

The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.

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

An edge or border. does this sense belong with Etymology 2?

A place of safekeeping or storage

The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.

A set of elevators.

(figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.

A row of keys on a keyboard.

(obsolete) The phallus.

A bench for rowers in a galley.

(zoology) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.

A row of oars in a galley.

An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

(Printing) The lines of type under a headline.

A circumference; a circle; a ring.

To border or protect with a ridge or embankment.

(architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

To pile up; amass

(architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.

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

(horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

To construct with a slope rising to the outside edge

(intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

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

To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

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

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

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

The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.

(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.

The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; - so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.

To rise in or take the form of a bank.

A virgate; a yardland.

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

A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.

To deposit in a bank.

A circumference; a circle; a ring.

To store for future use.

The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

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

The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.

To operate a bank.

The edge or outside of a bed or border.

To arrange or set up in a row

The penis.

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

The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(countable) A branch office of such an institution.

To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

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

To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

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

A region marking a boundary

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

The limit beyond which something happens or changes;

Money; profit.

A ceremonial or emblematic staff

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

A grass border along a road

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

Border on; come close to;

(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

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

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).

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

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

(rail) An incline, a hill.

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

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

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

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

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

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

(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.

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

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

A bench or seat for judges in court.

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

A kind of table used by printers.

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

(uncountable) slang for money

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

(transitive) To put into a bank.

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

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

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

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

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

To pass by the banks of.

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

To arrange or order in a row.

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.

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

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

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

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

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

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

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.

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

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

A sort of table used by printers.

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

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.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

To pass by the banks of.

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.

To deposit in a bank.

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

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

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

A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities;

Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water);

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

A building in which commercial banking is transacted;

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

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

A long ridge or pile;

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

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

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

Tip laterally;

Enclose with a bank;

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

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling

Be in the banking business

Put into a bank account;

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning;

Have confidence or faith in;