Word Finder - benches

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A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.

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They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.

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The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.

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They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.

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The place where the judges sit.

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She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.

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The dignity of holding an official seat.

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the bench of bishops

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The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.

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He spent the first three games on the bench, watching.

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The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.

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Injuries have shortened the bench.

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A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.

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She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.

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A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.

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A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.

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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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A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.

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A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.

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A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.

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A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.

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A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.

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To remove a player from play.

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They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.

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• sideline

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To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.

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To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.

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To furnish with benches.

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To place on a bench or seat of honour.

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The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.

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He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.

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To lift by bench pressing

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I heard he can bench 150 pounds.

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To recite the Birkat Hamazon.

Catacomb of benches cut out of the tufa rock.

And in the middle was a rough table with benches around it instead of chairs.

Another option is to use benches and stools.

While they may not work in a really formal room, small benches can be a great seating option.

Work benches, tools, old toys and cast off furniture made their way out to the garage, in some cases pushing the cars themselves out to the driveway.

Work benches with storage bolt to the wall of your garage for safety, are counter height for ease of use and come with built in cabinets, drawers and locks.

There are phone numbers written on walls, benches, and signs throughout Liberty City.

In earlier years prior to 1880, the few children who were privileged enough to attend school usually had to sit on long benches and write on slate boards on their laps.

All mirrors in the home where Shiva is done are covered and individuals sit on special Shiva benches.

Etiquette demands that you sit on a towel on public benches and the like.

Cutting mats, granite counters or work benches are all options to choose from to ensure you don't ruin a table with a slip of the knife.

Paint or decoupage hearts on just about any type of craft wood item you can find at the craft store, from picture frames to recipe boxes, benches to trunks.

The company also offers other types of equipment such as workout benches, step machines, dumbbells, and dual-action exercise bikes.

Marcy sells several styles of workout benches, depending upon your weightlifting needs.

For other items, such as the steppers and work benches, Marcy offers an affordable solution.

It features a dip station, a vertical knee raise station and benches and weights that allow you to train your full body.

Other benches - Gold's Gym offers a number of weight benches that allow you to position yourself for working with dumbbells or barbells.

The benches come in multiple configurations and positions without an attached weight rack.

Retail price for these benches runs from $50 to about $200 depending on the bench.

If there are no parcourses in your area, you can create your own by using park benches, rocks and trees.

Weight benches, racks and even Kettle Balls are available to complete the line.

Strength training equipment includes everything from dumbbells and barbells to multi-gyms, benches and weight-training machines.

Fill the garden with additional flowers, benches and figures until you cannot see beyond the garden edges.

They walked a short distance to an open atrium in the center of the house, complete with a small oasis rising up from white stone and curved benches.

Coming through the clearing to where the park benches were, he realized there was only one person.

Dropping to one of the benches, she opened one of the books and leafed through the colorful pages, pausing when she recognized a plant.

Her heart was beating wildly as she cowered against one of the benches.

A remarkable feature of this quarter is a small council chamber with a gypsum throne of curiously Gothic aspect and lower stone benches round.

The west court and entrance belonging to the earlier building show many analogies with those of Cnossus, and the court was commanded to the north by tiers of stone benches like those of the " theatral area " at Cnossus on a larger scale.

These benches are often hewn in the form of couches with pillows at one end, and the legs carved in relief.

There are benches with backs not only in the bottom row, but also above and below the diazoma.

The main room of the ordinary temple was rectangular, with an elevated apsidal arrangement, like a choir, containing the sacred relief on its wall, at the end opposite the entrance, and with continuous benches (podia) of masonry, about 5 ft.

At the principal towns benches of honorary magistrates, exercising powers of various degrees, have been constituted.

The main level or gate road is driven in the benches coal, or lower part of the seam, while a smaller drift for ventilation, called an air heading, is carried above it in one of the upper beds called the slipper coal.

The governor has the power, also, of filling vacancies in certain state offices and on the benches of the supreme court and county courts, and he may remove or suspend certain county and municipal officers on charges.

Litigation in mining matters is conducted before special benches attached to the district courts in.

Knowing the sensitiveness of the Lithuanians as regards Volhynia and Podolia, he suddenly, of his own authority, formally incorporated both these provinces with the kingdom of Poland, whereupon, amidst great enthusiasm, the Volhynian and Podolian deputies took their places on the same benches as their Polish brethren.

Here congregated hundreds of the younger szlachta, fresh from their school benches, whence they brought nothing but a smattering of Latin and a determination to make their way by absolute subservience to their "elder brethren," the pans.

The bulbs are placed in long shallow boxes, plunged in soil or ashes in the open air, and are later introduced as required into heat in semi-darkness, and are afterwards transferred to benches in the forcing houses where they flower.

A rule requiring the presence of six judges to pronounce a decision prevents the division of the court into two or more benches; and while this secures a thorough consideration of every case, it also retards the despatch of business.

It appears, however, from the inscriptions on the plan itself, that the north walk of the cloisters served for the purposes of a chapter-house, and was fitted up with benches on the long sides.

Execration of Haman, as the typical persecutor of the Jews, took various forms. In Germany wooden mallets were used in the synagogue to beat the benches when Haman's name was read out from the scroll of Esther, and during the festivities these mallets were sometimes used on the heads of the bystanders.

He modestly took his seat on one of the back benches, till Fox brought him forward to a seat near his own, exclaiming, "This is no place for the Irish Demosthenes !"

In saga literature we read of craft (of " long ships ") with 20 to 30 benches of rowers, which would mean 40 to 60 oars.

These separate enclosed seats are properly reserved for the clergy, and more usually the choir are seated in open benches in front of the stalls.

Objects that do not require annealing are produced by dozens per minute, and all the movements of feeding and stamping and removal are often automatic. The ductility of metals and alloys is utilized in wire and tube-drawing through dies on long benches.

This form of attack, and the flights of arrows discharged by the English (which flew with the wind), produced confusion in the crowded benches of the French vessels, which in most cases must have been little more than open boats.

By these means the benches of the galleys were filled, and Colbert took no thought of the long unrelieved agony borne by those who filled them.

The book was printed in a private press at Stonor Park, Henley, and 400 copies were found on the benches of St Mary's, Oxford, at the Commencement, on the 27th of June 1581.

There were two benches, one of the nobles, one of doctors of civil law; six of the members must be Protestants.