Noun: bench
| Singular | bench |
| Plural | benches |
Sample Sentences
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They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
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Scarborough station's famous 139-metre-long bench, believed to be the longest in the world, has been restored in a £14,500 project. [2021 January 27, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 923, page 71, photo caption:]
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They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.
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She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.
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the government front bench
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On the opposition benches at Holyrood, Scottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby favours a more formal approach of involving passenger and worker representatives in the management of ScotRail. [2022 April 6, Conrad Landin, “ScotRail in the public eye...”, in RAIL, number 954, page 40:]
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the bench of bishops
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the civic bench
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Mr. Zuckerberg’s repositioning of Meta started in earnest last year, when he began rearranging his bench of lieutenants. [2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times:]
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He spent the first three games on the bench, watching.
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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. [2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:]
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Injuries have shortened the bench.
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She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.
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2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
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I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.
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After removing the bench, we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.
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That number carried his glance to the top of this first bulging bench of cliff-base. [1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like bench
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
2. Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank. See: Dutch Nouns '
bank', German Nouns '
Bank', Danish Nouns '
bænk', Swedish Nouns '
bänk', Icelandic Nouns '
bekkur'.
Verbs referencing "bench"
Spanish Nouns
banco, Russian Nouns
банк, Zulu Nouns
ibhentshi.