bank
part of speech
noun (bank, banks); verb (bank, banks, banked, banking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bank is a place that keeps money safe and lends it. tree →
2) A piggy bank (money box) is a small box for saving coins. tree →
3) The bank of a river is the land along its side. tree →
4) A bank is a store of things kept to use later, like a food bank or a blood bank. tree →
5) To bank on something is to count on it. tree →
sense in the lessons
where money is saved or taken out; savings add, withdrawals take away; in geography, river banks; phrases «piggy bank», «bank account», «food bank», «river bank», «bank on»
examples
- She has 40 dollars in the bank. tree →
- He puts 5 dollars in his piggy bank each week. tree →
- The bank pays 2 dollars of interest. tree →
- They sat on the river bank. tree →
- Dad opened a bank account for me. tree →
- We gave cans to the food bank. tree →
- The river burst its banks after the storm. tree →
- You can bank on Grandma to bake on Sundays. tree →
- A bank of clouds covered the sun. tree →
- She saved coins in her money box. tree →
- There on the bank she wept and wailed. tree →
note
Putting money in adds; taking it out subtracts; interest is extra money the bank pays. Trap: «river bank» is a place, not money.
In the corpora
- Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.
- Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
- Most grown-ups keep their money in a bank account, and most of it is never seen as notes and coins.
- Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.
- An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bank» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.