Commit and Bank

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water. )
  • usage: "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents"
• A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
  • usage: "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home"
  • synonyms: depository financial institution, banking concern, banking company
• A long ridge or pile.
  • usage: "a huge bank of earth"
• An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers.
  • usage: "he operated a bank of switches"
• A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies. )
• The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games.
  • usage: "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
• 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.
  • synonyms: cant, camber
• A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home.
  • usage: "the coin bank was empty"
  • synonyms: savings bank, coin bank, money box
• A building in which the business of banking transacted.
  • usage: "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
  • synonyms: bank building
• A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning. )
  • usage: "the plane went into a steep bank"

verb

• Tip laterally.
  • usage: "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
• Enclose with a bank.
  • usage: "bank roads"
• Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
  • usage: "Where do you bank in this town"
• Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
• Be in the banking business.
• Put into a bank account.
  • usage: "She deposits her paycheck every month"
  • synonyms: deposit
• Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
  • usage: "bank a fire"
• Have confidence or faith in.
  • usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
  • synonyms: trust, swear, rely

• (n.) The regular term of a court of law or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
• (v.t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
• (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill or the side of a ravine.
• (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
• (n.) A bench; a high seat or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
• (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
• (n.) An elevation or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
• (v.t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
• (v.i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
• (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
• (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river or sea or forming the edge of a cutting or other hollow.
• (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
• (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
• (n.) A mound, pile or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
• (v.i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
• (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
• (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
• (v.t.) To deposit in a bank.
• (n.) A bench or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
• (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
• (v.t.) To pass by the banks of.
• (v.i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve or the like.
• (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45

Bank is an institution that acts as a financial intermediary by receiving money from depositors and lenders and also lending to borrowers. A bank must be chartered and meet certain criteria. Chartering is done by the Comptroller of the Currency for national banks, by the Federal Reserve System for state member banks, by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for insured banks, and by state regulatory agencies. Also referred to as a commercial bank.