bank (1) — OET

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noun

1 the banks of Lake Michigan:

edge, side, embankment, levee, border, verge, boundary, margin, rim, fringe, fringes, flank, brink, perimeter, circumference, extremity, periphery, limit, outer limit, limits, bound, bounds;

literary marge, bourn, skirt.

2 a grassy bank:

slope, rise, incline, gradient, ramp, acclivity, tump;

mound, ridge, hillock, hummock, knoll, hump, barrow, tumulus, earthwork, parados, berm;

elevation, eminence, prominence;

bar, reef, shoal, shelf;

accumulation, pile, heap, mass, drift.

3 a bank of switches:

array, row, line, tier, group, series;

panel, console, board.

verb

1 they banked up the earth around their hollow | snows have banked up under the evergreens:

pile (up), heap (up), stack (up), make a pile of, make a heap of, make a stack of;

accumulate, amass, assemble, put together.

2 she banked up the fire:

damp (down), smother, stifle.

3 she taught him how to bank the plane | the aircraft banked gently:

tilt, lean, tip, slant, incline, angle, slope, list, camber, pitch, dip, cant, put/be at an angle.

word links	bank
riparian, riverine relating to a river bank

bank (1) Oxford Dictionary of English