(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
(v. t.) To furnish with benches.
(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Welbeck, meanwhile, was not even able to feature on the substitutes' bench.
(2) The prediction equations significantly (t = 6.59, p less than 0.01) underestimated bench press performance in the more extensively weight trained subjects.
(3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(4) Bench testing of forces produced at the probe tip was performed with an electronic balance.
(5) But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.
(6) Sterling was left out of the team for that match, coming off the bench to win the free-kick from which Wayne Rooney scored the only goal, which led to accusations he had said he did not want to play.
(7) The other method allowed the castings to bench cool to room temperature.
(8) Sometimes I play with two, one on the bench, sometimes someone will be injured or suspended.
(9) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(11) Josh King restored the lead moments after coming off the substitutes’ bench, but the Hornets levelled for a second time through Isaac Success three minutes later.
(12) The XI the Scot sent out featured no Robin van Persie, who was on the bench, while Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Chris Smalling, Danny Welbeck and Marouane Fellaini did not make the squad due to injuries.
(13) Oxygenator exhaust capnographic measurements systematically underestimated PaCO2 measured by a bench blood gas analyzer.
(14) The technical difficulties can be avoided by en bloc removal, perfusion in situ with Collins solution, and bench surgery during graft preparation.
(15) Bench testing for accuracy of volume loss was checked by ventilating the device into another calibrated spirometer and achieving equal volumes.
(16) Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor, has had her responsibilities at the club scaled back after being on the receiving end of a rant from José Mourinho on Saturday, and she is not expected to continue being on the bench during games.
(17) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
(18) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(19) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(20) Interinstrument variation during treadmill experiments while subjects wore two accelerometers at the same time was on average 22% and was not improved after adjustment for differences found in the bench test.
Counter
Definition:
(adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
(v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
(v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
(v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
(v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
(v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
(v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
(adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
(adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
(adv.) At or against the front or face.
(a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
(adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
(adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
(adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
(n.) An encounter.
(v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
(2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(4) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(5) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
(6) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(7) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(8) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
(9) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(10) The effect was countered by prior administration of atropine into the site.
(11) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(12) It could be evaluated both by a plaquing technique and by cell enumeration with an electronic particle counter.
(13) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(14) Alteration in the temperature of the Isoton diluent in a Coulter model S counter over a range of possible laboratory working temperatures produced a change in the mean corpuscular volume using EDTA and dipotassium acid citrate dextrose blood and a commercial control, 4C.
(15) The lower values of the histological score and the possibly lower peripheral plasma concentration of testosterone after the arterial by-pass may indicate a physiological importance of the counter current exchange.
(16) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(17) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(18) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
(19) A simple equilibrium method for detecting and quantifying these interactions is to study the mutual influence of the molecules on their respective counter-current distribution in liquid-liquid biphasic systems.
(20) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.