Bank vs Back - What's the difference?
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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
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, title= A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque .
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
* Francis Bacon
(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A device used to store coins or currency.
To deal with a bank or financial institution.
To put into a bank .
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
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(nautical, hydrology) 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 transport) 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.
(aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank .
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
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(obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
* Waller
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.
(archaic, printing) 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
(not comparable) Near the rear.
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, title= (not comparable) Not current.
(not comparable) Far from the main area.
In arrear; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
(comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
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, title= Away from the front or from an edge.
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, title= In a manner that impedes.
In a reciprocal manner.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
#The spine and associated tissues.
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# Large and attractive buttocks.
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, passage= He got his hand on her behind and caressed her firm, ample flesh.
#(lb) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
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#The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
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#(lb) That part of the body that bears clothing.
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, passage=Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice}}
That which is farthest away from the front.
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#The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
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##The edge of a book which is bound.
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##(lb) The inside margin of a page.
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##The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
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#The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
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#Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
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#The part of something that goes last.
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#(lb) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
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, title= (lb) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
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A support or resource in reserve.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:This project / Should have a back or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof.
(lb) The keel and keelson of a ship.
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(lb) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
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, passage=The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.}}
Effort, usually physical.
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A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
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Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
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To go in the reverse direction.
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, title= (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
To push or force backwards.
(obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Thomas Henry Huxley) (1825-1895)
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
(legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
To row backward with (oars).
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A ferryboat.
As nouns the difference between bank and back
is that bank is bench, pew while back is a small stream or brook.bank
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) banke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank .
Synonyms
* (controller of a card game) bankerDerived terms
* bankability * bankable * bank account * bank agent * bank balance * bank bill * bank book * bank card * bank charges * bank cheque * bank clerk * bank draft * banker * bank giro * bank holiday * bank interest * bank loan * bank manager * banknote * bank of deposit * bank of issue * bank paper * bank rate * bank reserves * bank statement * bank stock * blood bank * bottle bank * break the bank * banking * bankroll * central bank * clearing bank * cry all the way to the bank * databank * food bank * investment bank * * joint-stock bank * laugh all the way to the bank * memory bank * merchant bank * national bank * peat bank * penny bank * piggy bank * pot bank * prime bank * private bank * reserve bank * savings bank * sperm bank * spoil bank * state bank * stopbank * take it to the bank * trustee savings bank * World BankVerb
(en verb)- He banked with Barclays.
- I'm going to bank the money.
Derived terms
* bank onEtymology 2
(etyl) banke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Tiber trembled underneath her banks .
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- Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank .
- the banks of Newfoundland
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
- Ores are brought to bank .
Derived terms
* bank up * clay-bank * cloud bank * embank * embankment * land bank * Left Bank * left-bank * oyster bank * right-bank * river bank * sand bank * sea bank * West BankVerb
(en verb)- to bank sand
- banked well with earth
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Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
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Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl) banc. Of German origin, and akin to English bench.Noun
(en noun)- Placed on their banks , the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
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Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia back)Etymology 1
(etyl) bak, from (etyl) 'bending'. The adverb represents an aphetic form of (aback).Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- back rent
- back action
Synonyms
* (near the rear) rear * (not current) former, previous * (far from the main area) remoteAntonyms
* (near the rear) front * (not current) current * (far from the main area) mainAdverb
(further)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
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Noun
(en noun)Right as Rain: A Novel, isbn=0446610798, page=123
A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, isbn=0833731289
West Brom 1-3 Blackburn, passage=
Mining Without Timber, page=161
Synonyms
* (side opposite the visible side) reverse * (rear of the body) rear, backsideAntonyms
* (side opposite the front or useful side) front * (that which is farthest away from the front) frontCoordinate terms
* (non-alcoholic drink)Derived terms
* (non-alcoholic drink)Verb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
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- to back oxen
- I will back him [a horse] straight.
- Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed , / Appeared to me.
- to back books
- a gardenwith a vineyard backed
- the chalk cliffs which back the beach
- to back''' a letter; to '''back a note or legal document
- to back the oars