Bench

/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools..

Definitions by Sense

1. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
2. (law) The seat where the judges sit in court.
3. A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.
4. (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
5. A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
6. A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
7. (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
8. A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.

Example Sentences

They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.

Scarborough station's famous 139-metre-long bench, believed to be the longest in the world, has been restored in a £14,500 project.

He spent the first three games on the bench, watching.

But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.

She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.

After removing the bench, we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.

That number carried his glance to the top of this first bulging bench of cliff-base.

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Word Forms

• benches
• benk
• bink
• benching
• benched

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