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Bench   /bɛntʃ/   Listen
Bench

noun
(pl. benches)
1.
A long seat for more than one person.
2.
A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below).  Synonym: terrace.
3.
Persons who administer justice.  Synonym: judiciary.
4.
A strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic.  Synonyms: work bench, workbench.
5.
The magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively.
6.
The reserve players on a team.
7.
(law) the seat for judges in a courtroom.
verb
(past & past part. benched; pres. part. benching)
1.
Take out of a game; of players.
2.
Exhibit on a bench.



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"Bench" Quotes from Famous Books



... went up on Oregon Avenue, and then thought we'd just go over to the park, and we got tired,—or I did,—and we sat down on a bench and went to sleep—both of us!" Polly giggled at the remembrance. "Then we couldn't tell which way to go, and Cornelius came along, and he had to do an errand for his mother, and we waited a good while for him—and that's why ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... bench outside the house, enjoying the full sunshine, while the farmer's wife chattered on. A big fire had been made in the kitchen, and ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... funny. After I had supped I sat on a bench by the door of the inn and gossiped with two labourers about brickmaking, and motor cars, and the cricket of last year. And in the sky a faint new crescent, blue and vague as a distant Alp, ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells
... won't, because I passed them just a little while ago as I came through the woods, sitting on a secluded bench, his arm round her waist and her head on ...
— The Making of Mary • Jean Forsyth
... opinion of their new ranche was higher than that of any with which they had been acquainted in the south. Excellent crops have been raised by men who had sown not only in the river bottoms, but also upon the so-called "bench" lands or plateaux above. This testimony was also given by others on the way to Fort Macleod and beyond it, thus closing most satisfactorily the song of praise we had heard from practical men throughout our whole journey of 1200 miles. Let me ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell


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