BENCH - 2 reference results
A bench is a long seat fit for several people, with or without back and/or arm rests, for sitting indoor (often in rows) or outdoor (as in a park). Benches are most often found in bus stops, parks, and cafeterias. Some benches are dedicated as a small memorial. Hobos also sleep on benches sometimes as beds.
Bench may also refer to:
In clothing
- A popular Filipino clothing brand established in the Philippines in 1987
- A brand of clothing and eyewear heavily popular in Europe.
In law
- Bench (metonymy), certain people in a given (e.g. professional) context, associated with a particular seating, especially in politics and law
- Bench (Judicial) refers to a group of judges hearing a case and juding on the matter
- The raised desk behind which a judge presides over a courtroom
In sports
- The "bench" refers to the players on the roster that do not start regularly or are not currently playing in any given game ("on the bench")
- In soccer, the technical area contains the dugout (or "bench")
- Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment, often very similar to the above "wide backless chair"
- Bench press, an open-chained form of free-weightlifting equipment
- Johnny Bench, the baseball player
Elsewhere
- Bench or bentsching, the Jewish blessing said after a meal
- Bench language (Bench-non), a Northern Omotic language spoken in Kaffa (southeastern Ethiopia)
- Workbench, a place of work consisting of a table and perhaps places to keep an arrangement of tools and materials.
- Bench scale, the small scale in contrast to commercial scale
- In surveying and civil engineering, a landform consisting of a long strip of land at constant height in an otherwise sloped area. If natural it is typically caused by successive depositions and erosions by a river in a floodplain. It may also be part of an artificial earthwork (c.f. benchmark, q.v. berm)
- The Bench refers to the buffer of employees who aren't assigned to any project. This is to ensure that staffing of new projects is fairly easy.
- The Bench, the short film from The Northern Film School in the United Kingdom.
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