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банка — meaning in English

banka

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English meaning

  • bank noun A financial institution that holds deposits, lends money, and manages other financial services.
  • bar noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
  • bed noun A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting on.
  • canned adj Sealed and preserved in a can.
  • jar noun A small container, usually made of glass or clay, used for storing food or other items.
  • pot noun A round container, usually with a handle, used for cooking or holding things such as plants.
  • shoal noun A large group of fish swimming together.
  • thwart verb To stop someone from succeeding at a plan; to block or frustrate it.
  • tube noun A hollow cylinder used to carry liquid, gas, or other material.

Senses

банка is used for these senses in English:

  • bank (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
  • bar (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  • bar (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
  • bar (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  • bar (transitive) To prohibit.
  • bar (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
  • bar To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
  • bed An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.

bank — full definition

  1. noun A financial institution that holds deposits, lends money, and manages other financial services.
  2. noun The raised ground along the edge of a river, lake, or other body of water.
  3. verb To keep or deposit money at a financial institution.
  4. verb Of an aircraft or vehicle, to tilt to one side while turning.

bar — full definition

  1. noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
  2. noun A rigid piece of metal, wood, or similar material, much longer than it is wide.
  3. noun A block-shaped piece of a solid substance, especially soap or chocolate.
  4. noun Something that blocks or prevents progress; an obstacle.
  5. noun The legal profession, or the examination lawyers must pass to practise.

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