| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb bench.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bench) | 1. Take out of a game; of players.[Wordnet]. 2. Exhibit on a bench; "bench the poodles at the dog show".[Wordnet]. 3. To furnish with benches.[Websters]. 4. To place on a bench or seat of honor.[Websters]. 5. To sit on a seat of justice.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: benching, benched, benches, bencher, benchers, benchingly and benchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BENCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BENCHING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | 1: Act of providing additional section to a bank at curvatures, or at low lying points, where cattle crossing exist. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Ledges shaped like steps or terrace formed below beds of canals and under the seats of banks in high filling for proper bonding of earthwork with the natural ground. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Environment | Installing fill materials in lifts. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: A method of working small quarries or opencast pits in steps or benches, rows of blasting holes being drilled parallel to the free face. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A. A method of working small quarries or opencast pits in steps or benches, in which rows of blasting holes are drilled parallel to the free face. The benching method has certain dangers since the quarrymen must work on ledges at some height. It is possible to work benches up to 30 ft (9.1 m) high using tripod or wagon drills. See also: bottom benching; top benching b. The breaking up of a bottom layer of coal with steel wedges in cases where holing is done above the floor c. Ches. The lower portion of the rock salt bed worked in one operation. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: bench
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bench (weight training) | A weight training bench is a piece of equipment that has a resemblance to a normal (e.g. park) bench, but is designed for use in weight training. (references) | ||
| Bench clamp | A clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bench dog | A bench dog is an accessory used on a woodworking workbench to allow clamping of wooden items whilst being worked. (references) | ||
| Bench grinder | A bench grinder or pedestal grinder is a machine used to drive an abrasive wheel (or wheels). (references) | ||
| Bench hook | Any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bench hook | A bench hook is a workbench accessory used in woodworking. The purpose of the bench hook is to provide a stop against which a piece of wood being worked can be placed to hold it steady whilst cutting, planing, or chiselling. (references) | ||
| Bench jockey | A bench jockey is a slang term in American baseball to describe a player, coach or manager with the talent of annoying and distracting opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout with verbal repartee. The verbal jousting is frequently called "riding" - hence the "rider" from the dugout becomes a "bench jockey." The art of riding opposition players enough to unnerve them (but not enough to enrage them and provoke a fight) is believed to be fast-fading in the 21st century game. (references) | ||
| Bench language | Bench (also called Gimira, considered a derogatory term) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (as of 1998) in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia (now the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region), around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. It has three mutually intelligible dialects: Bench proper, She, and Mer. Unusually for the region, it has six phonemic tones. (references) | ||
| Bench lathe | Lathe mounted on a workbench. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bench mark | A surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: BENCHING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Benching iron | Mining | An item of surveying equipment, comprising a triangular steel plate with pointed studs at the corners. These studs are driven into the ground in the desired position. The plate is used either as a temporary bench mark or as a change point in running a line of levels. (references) | |
| Multiple benching operations | Mining | Strip mining-A form of surface mining in which the overburden is removed so that a vein of ore or seam of coal roughly horizontal to the surface can be removed; it differs from open pit mining in that benches are not usually used in strip mining operations(3). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Top benching | Mining | The method by which the bench is removed from above, as with a dragline. See also: benching. (references) | |
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