Bank (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.
Bank, The Bank, or banking may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Films
[edit]- DCI Banks, a British television crime drama, aired by ITV 2010-2016
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 telemovie
- The Bank (1915 film), starring Charlie Chaplin
- The Bank (2001 film), starring David Wenham
Music
[edit]- "Bank", a 2017 song by Brockhampton from Saturation
- "Bank", a 2018 song by Lil Baby from Harder Than Ever
Other media
[edit]- Memory Banks (comic strip), a British comic strip
- Memory Bank (UK game show), a daytime game show which was shown on Five in the UK
Finance
[edit]- Central bank
- Mutual savings bank
- Piggy bank, a device for money saving
- Savings bank
Organizations
[edit]- BANK (art collective), a 1990s London art collective
- Bank (diaper bank), organizations created for the purpose of distributing free diapers to parents and caregivers unable to afford diapers
- Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education in New York, NY, U.S.
Places
[edit]- Bánk, a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, Hungary
- Bank, Iran, a city in Bushehr Province, Iran
- The Bank, Cheshire, a location in England
- Bank junction, a major road junction in the City of London
- Bank Station (OC Transpo), a bus stop in Ottawa
- Bank Street (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada
- Bank–Monument station, a tube station in London
- Bankə, Azerbaijan
- Promysel Narimanova or Bank, Azerbaijan
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
- Memory bank, a logical unit of storage
Biology and healthcare
[edit]Natural geography
[edit]- Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake
- Ocean bank, a shallow area in a body of water
Transportation
[edit]- Bank engine, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance
- Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
- Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines
- Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine
Sport
[edit]- Bank shot, a type of shot in:
- Citizens Bank Park or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- M&T Bank Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Bank of America Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Other uses
[edit]- Bank (surname), a surname
- Bank (fortification), a type of earthwork used in field defenses or around early hillforts
- Bank paper, thin paper
- Food bank, non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with bank
- All pages with titles containing bank
- Banker (disambiguation)
- Banks (disambiguation)
- Banku (disambiguation)
- Cache (disambiguation)
- Embankment (disambiguation)
- Mitigation banking, or environmental mitigation, government-regulated environmental offset projects
- Phone bank (disambiguation)
- Ponding bank, a technique used in regenerative agriculture to prevent soil erosion
- Shore
- Storage (disambiguation)
- Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan
- East Bank (disambiguation)
- Left Bank (disambiguation)
- North Bank (disambiguation)
- Right Bank (disambiguation)
- South Bank (disambiguation)
- West Bank (disambiguation)