The difference between Bank and Rank

Bank as a noun:

An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

Bank as a noun:

A branch office of such an institution.

Bank as a noun:

An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

Bank as a noun:

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

Bank as a noun (gambling):

The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

Bank as a noun (slang, uncountable):

money; profit

Bank as a noun:

In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

Bank as a noun:

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Bank as a noun:

A device used to store coins or currency.

Bank as a verb (intransitive):

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

Bank as a verb (transitive):

To put into a bank.

Bank as a verb (transitive, slang):

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Bank as a noun (hydrology):

An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

Bank as a noun (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).

Bank as a noun (geography):

A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

Bank as a noun (aviation):

The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

Bank as a noun (rail transport):

An incline, a hill.

Bank as a noun:

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

Bank as a noun (mining):

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Bank as a noun (mining):

A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

Bank as a noun (mining):

The ground at the top of a shaft.

Bank as a verb (intransitive, aviation):

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

Bank as a verb (transitive):

To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

Bank as a verb (transitive):

To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

Bank as a verb (transitive):

To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

Bank as a verb (transitive):

To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Bank as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To pass by the banks of.

Bank as a noun:

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

Bank as a noun:

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Bank as a verb (transitive, order and arrangement):

To arrange or order in a row.

Bank as a noun:

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

Bank as a noun:

A bench or seat for judges in court.

Bank as a noun:

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 .

Bank as a noun (archaic, printing):

A kind of table used by printers.

Bank as a noun (music):

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Bank as a noun (uncountable):

slang for money

Rank as an adjective:

Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

Rank as an adjective:

Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

Rank as an adjective:

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

Rank as an adjective:

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

Rank as an adjective:

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Rank as an adjective:

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

Rank as an adjective:

Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

Rank as an adjective (informal):

Gross, disgusting.

Rank as an adjective (obsolete):

Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

Rank as an adjective (obsolete):

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

Rank as an adverb (obsolete):

Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Rank as a noun:

A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].

Rank as a noun (music):

In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

Rank as a noun:

One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality

Rank as a noun:

The level of one's position in a class-based society

Rank as a noun:

a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military

Rank as a noun (taxonomy):

a level in a scientific taxonomy system

Rank as a noun (linear algebra):

Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

Rank as a noun (mathematics):

The dimensionality of an array or tensor.

Rank as a noun (mathematics):

The size of any basis of a given matroid.

Rank as a noun (chess):

one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.

Rank as a noun (typically in the plural):

A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

Rank as a verb:

To place abreast, or in a line.

Rank as a verb:

To have a ranking.

Rank as a verb:

To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

Rank as a verb (US):

To take rank of; to outrank.