(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.
Obiter
Definition:
(adv.) In passing; incidentally; by the way.
Example Sentences:
(1) In legal terms, her entire judgment was obiter , meaning that it was not part of the court's ruling and not binding on anyone else.
(2) When Robert Harris read this as part of his research for The Ghost , he sought permission to quote some of Crofts's obiter dicta ("Of all the advantages that ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity to meet people of interest") as chapter-heads.
(3) Another email to Entwistle when he was running BBC Vision from Jan Younghusband, the commissioning editor for BBC music and events, sent on the day after Savile's death in October 2011, said: "I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story ...
(4) When interviewed by Pollard last month Vaughan-Barratt explained that by "dark side" he meant: "We haven't got an obit for him.
(5) Those emails prompted Younghusband to reply to the two executives: "'I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story.
(6) This work was carried out in 50 hearts of human adult cadavers of both sexes, whose obit causes were not related to diseases which could have been directly involved with the heart.
(7) Vaughan-Barratt told Entwistle in the email in May 2010: "We have no obit and I am not sure we would want one ... My first job in TV was on a JS show, I saw the complex and sometimes conflicting nature of the man at first hand ...
(8) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
(9) ('I'm sorry I'm going to be a bit technical - the ruling was obiter dictum rather than the ratio meaning that it was a passing remark ...').