different between strike vs bank

English

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English str?can, from Proto-Germanic *str?kan?, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /st?a?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (archaic) strucken)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

2. (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
   1. (transitive) To hit.
   2. (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
   3. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
   4. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
   5. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

   6. (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

   7. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
   8. (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
   9. (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

4. (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
   1. (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
   2. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
   3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

   4. (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
   5. (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

      Synonym: strike work

      • 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)

        Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]

   6. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
   7. (transitive) To create an impression.
   8. (sports) To score a goal.
   9. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
   10. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

   11. (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
   12. (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
5. To touch; to act by appulse.
6. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
   1. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
   2. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
   3. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
      • 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)

        The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.

7. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
8. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
9. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

10. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
11. To make and ratify.

12. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
13. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
14. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

15. (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
16. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
17. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
18. To balance (a ledger or account).

Usage notes

• The past participle of strike is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.); stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in transitive constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action, especially in the phrases "stricken with/by (an affliction)" or "stricken (something) from the record" (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.). Except for in these contexts, stricken is almost never found in informal or colloquial speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

2. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
   • 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:

     It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone.

3. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
4. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
5. A blow or application of physical force against something.
   • 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes

     […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.

   • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught

6. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
7. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
8. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

9. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
10. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
11. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
12. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
13. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
14. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
15. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
16. The discovery of a source of something.
17. The strike plate of a door.
18. (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
    • 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)

      I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.

Antonyms

• (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• German: streiken

References

Further reading

• strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues?^[1], volume 7, page 12

Anagrams

• Kister, kiters, trikes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?ajk/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) a strike

Derived terms

• striker

Related terms

• spare

Italian

Noun

strike m (invariable)

1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English strike.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?st?ajk/, /is.?t?aj.ki/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
2. (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

From English strike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?aik/, [?st??ai?k]

• IPA^(key): /es?t?aik/, [es?t??ai?k]

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (baseball) strike

2. (bowling) strike

English

Alternative forms

• banck, bancke, banke (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench.

Noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

   Synonyms: banker, banque

4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: bang

Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Derived terms

• bankable
• banked
• banker
• banking
• bank on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bank, from Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

3. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

   the banks of Newfoundland

4. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
5. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
6. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
7. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

8. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
9. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
10. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

    Ores are brought to bank.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bench

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

   • Aristoma?chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
8. (rail transport, Britain) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Derived terms

• bank-and-turn indicator, turn-and-bank indicator

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Synonyms

• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel

Derived terms

• double-bank
• filter bank, filterbank
• optical bank
• phone bank

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas

     Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

6. (uncountable) slang for money

Derived terms

• Bank Royal
• Common Bank

Related terms

• banc
• banquette
• frank bank

References

• “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Knab, knab, nabk

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Etymology 1

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bench, couch

Derived terms

• onder stoele of banke wegsteek
• toonbank

Etymology 2

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

Verb

bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
2. (intransitive) to bank

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from French banque.

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Further reading

• “bank” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque

Noun

bank

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

Noun

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)

Declension

Derived terms

• bankanvisning
• bankier
• bankør

Descendants

• ? Faroese: banki
• ? Greenlandic: banki
• ? Icelandic: banki

Etymology 2

From German Bank (“bench”).

Noun

bank c

1. only used in certain expressions

Derived terms

• over en bank

Noun

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
2. (pl) a beating

Declension

Synonyms

• (beating): tæsk, tæv

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. bench
2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa

   Synonym: sofa

3. place where seashells are found
4. shallow part of the sea near the coast

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
  • ? Aukan: bangi
  • ? Caribbean Hindustani: bángi
  • ? Saramaccan: bángi

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. A bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) The bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
3. A banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
4. A bank, collection and/or repository.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Aukan: banku
• ? Caribbean Hindustani: bánk
• ? Malay: bank
  • Indonesian: bank
  • ? Central Dusun: bank
  • ? Central Melanau: bank
  • ? Makasar: bank
  • ? Javanese: bang
  • ? Sundanese: bank
• ? Saramaccan: bánku
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
• ? West Frisian: bank
• ? Dutch: bankje, bankie (diminutive)
  • ? Sranan Tongo: barki
    • ? Dutch: barkie

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Bank, from Italian banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bank (plural bankok)

1. bank (financial institution)

   Synonym: pénzintézet

2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• bank in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau??k/
• Rhymes: -au??k

Noun

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

1. knock, blow

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bank (“bank”), from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of bangku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bank

1. bank:
   1. an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Derived terms

• perbankan

Compounds

Further reading

• “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Etymology

From French banque

Pronunciation

Noun

bank m (plural banek)

1. bank

Noun

bank m (plural bankijiet)

1. bench

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. the bank of a river or lake

Descendants

• English: bank

References

• “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the verb banke

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a beat, knock, throb

Derived terms

• hjertebank

Etymology 3

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

References

• “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

References

• “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• panch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

Noun

bank f

1. bench

Descendants

• Middle High German: banc, bank
  • German: Bank
    • ? Danish: bank
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: bank
  • Luxembourgish: Bänk
  • Pennsylvania German: Bank
• ? Old French: banc
  • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: banc
  • ? Middle English: bank, banke
    • English: bank
  • ? Galician: banco
  • ? Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
• ? Old Italian: banco, banca
  • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Byzantine Greek: ?????? (pánkos)
    • Greek: ?????? (págkos)
  • ? Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
• ? Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

Polish

Etymology

From Italian banco via German Bank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Noun

bank m inan

1. bank

Declension

Derived terms

• bankowy
• bankowo??
• bankier

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: bank (bank)
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (bank)

References

Further reading

• bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene

Noun

bánk

1. inflection of bánka:
   1. genitive dual
   2. genitive plural

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??k/

Etymology

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank c

1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
2. a bank (place of storage)
3. a bank (of a river of lake)
4. a sandbank

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Elfdalian: baunka
• ? Finnish: pankki

References

• bank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French banc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bench (long seat)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

bank (nominative plural banks)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension