Arm vs Bench - What's the difference?
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The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
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, chapter=19 (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
A branch of an organization.
(figurative) Power; might; strength; support.
* Bible, Isa. lii. 1
(baseball, slang) A pitcher
To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
* Shakespeare
* Two N. Kins
To supply with arms or limbs.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
(figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
* Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1
To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
A long seat, for example, in the park.
(legal) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
(legal, figuratively) The place where the judges sit.
(sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
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(sports, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
(weightlifting) A horizontal padded surface, usually with a weight rack, used for support during exercise.
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(surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
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(geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
(UK, Australia, NZ) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
(sports) To remove a player from play.
(figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
(slang) To push the victim back on the person behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
To furnish with benches.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To place on a bench or seat of honour.
* Shakespeare
(transitive, and, intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
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(weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
As nouns the difference between arm and bench
is that arm is sleeve; a part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm while bench is a long seat, for example, in the park or bench can be (weightlifting) the weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.As a verb bench is
(sports) to remove a player from play or bench can be (transitive|and|intransitive|colloquial) to lift by bench pressing or bench can be .arm
English
(wikipedia arm) {{picdic, image=Arm_flex_supinate.jpg , width=240 , height=310 , labels= , detail1=Click on labels in the image , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm , since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- the arms of an octopus
- the arm of the law
- the secular arm
- To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
- The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.
Derived terms
(derived terms) * armband * armchair * -armed * armful * armhole * arm in arm * armless * armlet * armlock * armpit * armrest * arm's reach * at arm's length * babe in arms * chance one's arm * cost an arm and a leg * forearm * in arm's reach * in the arms of Morpheus * the long arm of the law * lower arm * on one's arm * right arm * take in one's arms * take someone's arm * upper arm * with open arms * within arm's reachVerb
(en verb)- And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.
- Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.
- His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
(etyl), from (etyl) (m), from Latin , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
(derived terms) * armed * arms factory * arms race * army * bear arms * brothers in arms * coat of arms * firearm * in arms * lay down one's arms * present arms! * sidearm * shot in the arm * take up arms against * to arms! * unarmed * under arms * up in armsVerb
(en verb)- Remember to arm an alarm system.
- to arm''' the hit of a sword; to '''arm a hook in angling
- Arm yourselves with the same mind.
Derived terms
* arm to the teethStatistics
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English
(wikipedia bench)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bench, benk, bynk, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(es)- They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
- They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench .
- She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.
- He spent the first three games on the bench , watching.
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- Injuries have shortened the bench .
- She placed the workpiece on the bench , inspected it closely, and opened the cover.
- I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.
Description of bench, as part of the benchmark etymology
- After removing the bench , we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.
- That number carried his glance to the top of this first bulging bench of cliff-base.
Derived terms
* benchmark * bench plane * bench trial * bench warrant * bench-warmer * deacon's benchVerb
(es)- They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
- 'Twas benched with turf.
- stately theaters benched crescentwise
- whom I have benched and reared to worship
Synonyms
* (sports)Etymology 2
From bench press by shortening.Verb
(es)- I heard he can bench 150 pounds.
- For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.
Noun
(benches)- He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.
