What's the difference between bench and tench?

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.

Tench


Definition:

  • (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cutaneous oxygen consumption and oxygen uptake from the external medium were investigated in three species of freshwater teleosts:eel(Anguilla anguilla L.)(silvered stage), trout (Salmo gairdnerii R.) and tench (Tinca tinca L.).
  • (2) These coincident pH decreases conformed to the in vitro pHi-pHe relationship for tench blood in the oxygenated state.
  • (3) Bithynia tentaculata, being the only snail species that was very numerous in the lake, was the first as well as the main second intermediate host; adult trematodes were found exclusively in the tench, Tinca tinca.
  • (4) Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (C), peroxidase (P) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) were estimated in the erythrocytes and liver of the carp, the tench and the crucian carp during a two-years period, 1983-1984 (autumn).
  • (5) Characteristics of the action potential in different parts of the tench heart are presented.
  • (6) Mechanical power of tench isolated heart is obtained from values of stroke volume at constant hydrodynamic pressure.
  • (7) At an extracellular pH of 7.9 the red cell pH in tench blood exhibits a nonlinear, strongly inverse relationship with Hb-O2 saturation, both when investigated in vitro and in vivo (in fish exposed to acid water with and without aluminium).
  • (8) The hepatic biotransformation activity of four cultivated freshwater fish, Amur carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), carp (Cyprinus carpio), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and tench (Tinca tinca) were studied one day after catching the fish from ponds and a river in the south of GDR and in fish kept for two weeks in clean filtrated and deacidified water.
  • (9) Double cones of tench and goldfish retina are characterized by extensive subsurface cisternae underlying the plasma membranes at the appositional area between the principal and accessory cone.
  • (10) This results correlate with mATP-ase activity in the tench musculature and did not correlate in the pond loach with respect to mATP-ase alkali stable red muscle fibres in the fish.
  • (11) Natural anti-DNP antibodies were isolated by affinity chromatography from individual sera of three Cyprinid fish species (carp, goldfish and tench) and their electrofocusing (IEF) spectra were analysed in reducing conditions.
  • (12) It consists of drawings and photographs at several levels throughout the main divisions of the tench brain.
  • (13) These observations (on the tench Tinca) are contrary to the conclusions of Svaetichin & McNichol (on Gerridae) that the action spectrum is unaltered in shape by adaptation to coloured lights.
  • (14) We don’t think that this case meets the court’s standards required for it to be heard, which is why we are appealing it.” Dan Tench, the Olswang partner who represents the claimants, said: “We are very pleased that the information commissioner has intervened in this case.
  • (15) ), mutton bird (Puffinus tenuirostris), Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii), Tasmanian raven (Corvus mellori), tench (Tinca tinca), and quail (Coturnix sp.)
  • (16) A gamma-guanidobutyrate ureahydrolase isolated from tench liver has been characterized.
  • (17) the insect gut, the oesophagus of carp, and the oesophagus, stomach and the midgut of tench) also receives a synaptic input.
  • (18) A structural, ultrastructural, and morphometric study was made of the liver parenchyma of 12 adult tench (Tinca tinca, L.) subjected to acute experimental copper sulfate poisoning.
  • (19) These processes developed in the course of the experiment, leading to the death of tench after 12 to 15 days of exposure to 75 ppm lead nitrate, at which point the concentrations of lead in the gills had reached their maximum.
  • (20) The distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-like immunoreactivity in the olfactory bulb was studied in three species of teleosts, the tench Tinca tinca, the Mediterranean barbel Barbus meridionalis and the rainbow trout Salmo gairdneri, by using an indirect immunoperoxidase method.

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