What's the difference between bench and pad?

Bench


Definition:

  • (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.

Pad


Definition:

  • (n.) A footpath; a road.
  • (n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
  • (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
  • (n.) The act of robbing on the highway.
  • (v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread.
  • (v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly.
  • (v. i.) To rob on foot.
  • (v. i.) To wear a path by walking.
  • (n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
  • (n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
  • (n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  • (n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
  • (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
  • (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
  • (n.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
  • (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
  • (n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
  • (v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
  • (v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
  • (2) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (3) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
  • (4) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
  • (5) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
  • (6) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
  • (7) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
  • (8) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
  • (9) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
  • (10) Minor amounts were deposited in liver, kidneys and epididymal fat pads.
  • (11) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
  • (12) Human chorionic somatomammotropin extracted and purified from placenta at term was proved to have a lipolytic action in the epididymal fat pad of rats.
  • (13) Many pharmacy departments in Michigan hospitals can substantially improve their adherence to ASHP and OSHA recommendations related to PADs.
  • (14) A foot-pad oedema model was used to investigate the presence of free radicals using a chemiluminescence method.
  • (15) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
  • (16) Infections of mice with Mycobacterium leprae in one rear foot pad immunized them against a second infection in the other rear foot pad.
  • (17) Incorporation of glucose into fat pad glycogen and CO2 was decreased.
  • (18) In vitro attempts to demonstrate local activated macrophages in the foot pads of M. leprae infected mice failed, but, because of the technical problems encountered, do not preclude their presence.
  • (19) We performed comprehensive electrophysiologic studies and skeletal muscle histologic analysis in six patients with unilateral PAD and five control subjects matched for age and activity level.
  • (20) The fat pads were stimulated with continuous-pulse trains for 15 seconds via a hand-held bipolar electrode using constant current (10-15 mA), constant pulse width (0.02-0.05 msec), and at 6.6, 10, 20, 25, and 30 Hz.

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