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bench
1[ bench ]
noun
- a long seat for several people:
a bench in the park.
- a seat occupied by an official, especially a judge.
- such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
- the office or dignity of various other officials, or the officials themselves.
- the seat on which the players of a team sit during a game while not playing.
- the quality and number of the players of a team who are usually used as substitutes:
A weak bench hurt their chances for the championship.
- the quality and number of professionals or experts in reserve, to be called upon as needed:
The country has a deep bench of scientists.
- Informal. bench press.
- Also called workbench. the strong worktable of a carpenter or other mechanic.
- a platform on which animals are placed for exhibition, especially at a dog show.
- a contest or exhibition of dogs; dog show.
- Physical Geography. a shelflike area of rock with steep slopes above and below.
- Mining. a step or working elevation in a mine.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with benches.
- to seat on a bench or on the bench:
an election that benched him in the district court.
- to place (a show dog or other animal) in exhibition.
- to cut away the working faces of (a mine or quarry) in benches.
- Sports. to remove from a game or keep from participating in a game:
to be benched because of poor hitting.
Bench
2[ bench ]
noun
- Johnny, born 1947, U.S. baseball player.
bench
/ ɛԳʃ /
noun
- a long seat for more than one person, usually lacking a back or arms
- a plain stout worktable
- the benchsometimes capital
- a judge or magistrate sitting in court in a judicial capacity
- judges or magistrates collectively
- sport the seat on which reserve players and officials sit during a game
- geology a flat narrow platform of land, esp one marking a former shoreline
- a ledge in a mine or quarry from which work is carried out
- (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- a platform on which dogs or other domestic animals are exhibited at shows
- a hollow on a hillside formed by sheep
verb
- to provide with benches
- to exhibit (a dog, etc) at a show
- to form (a track) up a hill by excavating a flattened area
- sport to take or keep (a player) out of a game, often for disciplinary reasons
Other Word Forms
- Գ· adjective
- ܲ·Գ verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bench1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing bench
see on the bench ; warm the bench .Example Sentences
And when Westbrook scored, he frequently glared at the Clippers’ bench.
The celebration began at about 11:40 BST and featured picnic benches, bars on the back of tractors and food served straight from a boat at high tide.
Then, after coming off the bench earlier in the game, Edman walked it off with a line drive single to right.
And then to start the fourth, all five got off the Lakers’ bench.
“We just had more time to sit down and watch videos, like, ‘Here’s how your pitches play’ … Even the way his pitches play off each other,” the bench coach recalled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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