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bank
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n 1: sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water);
"they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank
of the river and watched the currents"
2: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels
the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the
bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home" [syn:
depository financial institution, bank, banking
concern, banking company]
3: a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
4: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he
operated a bank of switches"
5: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially
in emergencies)
6: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some
gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
7: 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: bank, cant, camber]
8: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping
money at home; "the coin bank was empty" [syn: savings
bank, coin bank, money box, bank]
9: a building in which the business of banking transacted; "the
bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" [syn:
bank, bank building]
10: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its
longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went
into a steep bank"
v 1: tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
2: enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
3: do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where
do you bank in this town?"
4: act as the banker in a game or in gambling
5: be in the banking business
6: put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every
month" [syn: deposit, bank] [ant: draw, draw off,
take out, withdraw]
7: cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a
fire"
8: have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on
your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my
grandmother's recipes" [syn: trust, swear, rely,
bank] [ant: distrust, mistrust, suspect]
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blank
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adj 1: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages";
"fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white
margins" [syn: blank, clean, white]
2: void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous]
3: not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"
n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in
writing or printing; "he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet" [syn: space,
blank]
2: a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna, blank]
3: a piece of material ready to be made into something
4: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[syn: blank, dummy, blank shell]
v 1: keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
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clank
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n 1: a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang
of distant bells" [syn: clang, clangor, clangour,
clangoring, clank, clash, crash]
v 1: make a clank; "the train clanked through the village"
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conch
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n 1: any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the
genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with
large outer lip
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conk
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n 1: informal term for the nose
v 1: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway" [syn:
stall, conk]
2: hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he
fainted"
3: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and
functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer";
"The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went
peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of
102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass
away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's
chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop
dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be
born]
4: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to
a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk,
swoon, pass out]
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crank
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adj 1: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
[syn: crank, cranky, tender, tippy]
n 1: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank,
churl, crosspatch]
2: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank,
nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball]
3: an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the
form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to
the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [syn:
methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride,
Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken
feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash]
4: a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel
handle [syn: crank, starter]
v 1: travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the
countryside" [syn: zigzag, crank]
2: start by cranking; "crank up the engine" [syn: crank,
crank up]
3: rotate with a crank [syn: crank, crank up]
4: fasten with a crank
5: bend into the shape of a crank
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dank
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adj 1: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake";
"clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
[syn: clammy, dank]
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plonk
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n 1: a cheap wine of inferior quality
2: the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
v 1: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
"He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself
into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop,
plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]
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wank
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n 1: slang for masturbation [syn: jacking off, jerking off,
hand job, wank]
v 1: get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn:
masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off,
jerk off]
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yank
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n 1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the
American Civil War) [syn: Yankee, Yank, Northerner]
2: an American (especially to non-Americans) [syn: Yankee,
Yank, Yankee-Doodle]
v 1: pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle
and jerked the door open" [syn: yank, jerk]
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planck
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n 1: German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation
in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated
quantum theory (1858-1947) [syn: Planck, Max Planck,
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck]
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bronc
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n 1: an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang [syn: bronco,
bronc, broncho]
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cronk
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v 1: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: croak, cronk]
2: cry like a goose; "The geese were honking" [syn: honk,
cronk]
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bonk
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v 1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in
the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with,
get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate,
have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw,
fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a
go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]
2: hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]
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snowbank
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n 1: a mound or heap of snow [syn: snowbank, snow bank]
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elasmobranch
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n 1: any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes
characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid
scales: sharks; rays; skates [syn: elasmobranch,
selachian]
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point-blank
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adv 1: in a direct and unequivocal manner; "I asked him point-
blank whether he wanted the job"
adj 1: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight
shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my
candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright
approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and
you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be
outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the
point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt,
candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken,
outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-
from-the-shoulder]
2: close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank
range"; "a point-blank shot"
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ankh
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banc
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montblanc
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interbank
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bronk
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fronk
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graunke
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kronk
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schwanke
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swanke
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lophobranch
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stopbank
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brockbank
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