banco

=

bank

noun

banco
masculine noun
1. bench (asiento); pew (de iglesia)
  • banco azul (politics) -> = seats in Spanish parliament where government ministers sit
  • banco de remo -> rowing machine
2. bank (institución financiera)
  • banco Central Europeo -> European Central Bank
  • el banco Mundial -> the World Bank
3. shoal (de peces)
4. bank (depósito)
  • banco de datos (computing) -> data bank
  • banco de sangre -> blood bank
  • banco de esperma -> sperm bank
5. workbench (de carpintero, artesano)
6. (Tec)
  • banco de pruebas -> test bench; testing ground (figurative)
also:
  • banco de arena -> sandbank
  • banco de hielo -> pack ice
  • banco de niebla -> fog bank

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banco [bahn’-co]
noun
1. Form or bench without a back. (m)
2. A strong bench for the use of carpenters. (m)
  • Banco de acepillar -> a planing-bench
3. A thwart, or bench for rowers. (m)
4. A bank, a place where money is kept. (m)
5. Company of persons concerned in managing a joint stock of money. (m)
6. The cheeks of the bit of a bridle. (m)
7. A pedestal on which any piece of architecture is raised. (m)
  • Banco de ahorros -> savings-bank
  • Banco de arena -> sand-bank
  • Banco de hielo -> field of ice
  • Banco de río -> sand-bank in a river
  • Banco pinjado -> ancient warlike machine for battering
  • Pasar Banco -> to flog the sailors on board a galley
  • Razón de pie de banco -> an absurd reason, a groundless motive
  • Banco de la paciencia -> (Naut.) bench on the quarter-deck
  • Banco de piedra -> a vein or stratum of a single kind of stone

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