Definitions for benches

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benches bench

Spelling: [bench]

IPA: /bɛntʃ/

Benches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in benches (bceehns).

Definitions for benches

noun

1. a long seat for several persons:
2. a seat occupied by an official, especially a judge.
3. such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
4. the office or dignity of various other officials, or the officials themselves.
5. Sports. the seat on which the players of a team sit during a game while not playing. thequality and number of the players of a team who are usually used as substitutes:
6. Informal. bench press.
7. Also called workbench. the strong worktable of a carpenter or other mechanic.
8. a platform on which animals are placed for exhibition, especially at a dog show.
9. a contest or exhibition of dogs; dog show.
10. Physical Geography. a shelflike area of rock with steep slopes above and below.
11. Mining. a step or working elevation in a mine.
12. berm (def 2).

Idioms

1. on the bench, serving as a judge in a court of law; presiding. Sports. (of a player) not participating in play, either for part or all of a game.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with benches.
2. to seat on a bench or on the bench:
3. to place (a show dog or other animal) in exhibition.
4. to cut away the working faces of (a mine or quarry) in benches.
5. Sports. to remove from a game or keep from participating in a game:

Origin of benches

before 1000; Middle English, Old English benc; cognate with Old Frisian benk, Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German bank, Old Norse bekkr Germanic *bank-i-; see bank

Examples for benches

At last he went towards the bench behind the stove, and put them down on it.

Through most of that session he was lying on a bench, his hands and feet bound with tape.

He tried to make a comeback with the Eagles during the 1946 season, but he weighed 225 and was soon riding the bench.

At night jineteras stalk the promenade in search of tourists while a trumpet from a bench serenades the proceedings.

Rico went into the room, seated himself on a bench, and did not stir.

Then you have to get judges onto the bench who agree with you.

Viviette seated herself on a bench beneath the apple blossoms.

The club then adjourned to the outside, all except those who sat on the bench.

When she found him on his bench, however, she passed him by.

But watching this from what I call my “bench on the beach” in Delaware I had been watching [Ebola coverage] all summer.