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BANKS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
Synonyms:
Banks; Sir Joseph Banks
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb bank
Context examples:
Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have identified another culprit when a river overflows its banks: leafy plants.
(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)
“At Bristol, in banks and places,” answered his companion.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They have a hostel of their own now, somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, where the landlord drinks so much of the liquor that there is little left for the customers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To keep blood safe, blood banks carefully screen donated blood.
(Blood Transfusion and Donation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Never had I formed a conception of such endless banks of houses, and such a ceaseless stream of life flowing between.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tissue banks screen these donors and disinfect and test the donated bone to make sure it is safe to use.
(Bone Grafts, NIH)
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But he was quite easy and sneering. ‘Set your mind at rest,’ says he, ‘I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the cheque myself.’ So we all set off, the doctor, and the child’s father, and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of the night in my chambers; and next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a body to the bank.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
