1. A building in which commercial banking is transacted; SYN. bank building.
2. A small, hollow object in which one keeps one's money SYN. piggybank.
3. The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
4. A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning).
5. A long ridge or pile
6. 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; SYN. cant, camber.
7. A supply or stock held in reserve especially for future use (especially in emergencies).
8. An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
9. Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
(Homonym: literal).
The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; SYN. litoral, littoral zone, sands.
The bank of a river; SYN. riverside.
1. A beam that is propped against a structure to provide support.
2. The land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river).
1. A complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
2. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
3. A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).
Land bordering a body of water.
bei stehenden u. fließenden Gewässern der über der Berührungslinie von Wasser u. Land gelegene Grenzsaum des Landes.
ETYM Latin riparius, from ripa a bank. Related to River, Arrive.
Of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream; Of or inhabiting a riverbank; a riverside inhabitant.
Pertaining to or on river bank or lake shore.