Dictionary Entry
bench
bench is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
- 2noun
A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
- 3noun
The seat where judges sit in court.
- 4noun
The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
- 5noun
A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
- 6noun
A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
- 7transitive verb
To furnish with benches.
- 8transitive verb
To place on a bench or seat of honor.
- 9intransitive verb
To sit on a seat of justice.
- 10noun
a long seat for more than one person
- 11noun
(law) the seat for judges in a courtroom
- 12noun
a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic
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- 13noun
persons who administer justice
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- 14noun
the reserve players on a team
"our team has a strong bench"
- 15noun
the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
- 16noun
a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
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- 17verb
exhibit on a bench
"bench the poodles at the dog show"
- 18verb
take out of a game; of players
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