Bank vs Push - 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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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.
* Shakespeare
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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.
* Holland
(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
(intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
* Jonathan Swift
* Spectator
To press or urge forward; to drive.
* Dryden
To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
(informal) To approach; to come close to.
To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
To make a higher bid at an auction.
(poker) To make an all-in bet.
(chess) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
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(obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
* Bible, Exodus xxi. 32
To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
A great effort (to do something).
(military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push'', ''push technology .
(dated) A crowd or throng or people
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
Bank is a related term of push.
As nouns the difference between bank and push
is that bank is bench, pew while push is a short, directed application of force; an act of pushing or push can be (obsolete|uk|dialect) a pustule; a pimple.As a verb push is
(intransitive) to apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.bank
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) banke, from (etyl) .Noun
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- 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
- (Shakespeare)
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.
- (Burrill)
- (Knight)
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----push
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Verb
(es)- In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.
- You need to push quite hard to get this door open.
- We are pushed for an answer.
- Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.
- to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck
- to push his fortune
- Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.
- They're pushing that perfume again.
- There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.
- My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.
- He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )
- During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .
- When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
- If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.
Synonyms
* to press, to shove, to thrutch * (continue to attempt to persuade) to press, to urge * (continue to promote) to press, to advertise, to promote * (come close to) to approach, to near * to press, to shove, to thring * (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents) to bear downAntonyms
* (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to popDerived terms
* pedal pushers * push around * push-bike * pushful * push in * push off * push one's luck * pushover * push someone's buttons * push it * push-up * pushyNoun
(es)- Give the door a hard push if it sticks.
- One more push and the baby will be out.
- Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.
- Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.
- Till some wild, excited person
- Galloped down the township cursing,
- "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,
- Roll up, Dandaloo!"
Derived terms
* give someone the pushEtymology 2
Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.Noun
(es)- (Francis Bacon)
